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Present	University Professor, Iowa State University ‐ Department of Economics
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Human Resources Management, Growth and Development, Labor Economics, and Regional Economics

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Ames, IA 50011

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Active Leisure, Passive Leisure and Health

Economics & Human Biology (2021)

Soumyadip Roy and Peter F. Orazem

Leisure consumption has been increasing in the United States since the 1960s. Over the same period, inactive lifestyles have contributed ...

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Winners and losers after 25 years of transition: Decreasing wage ...

Economic Systems (2021)

Suzana Laporšek, Peter F Orazem, Milan Vodopivec and Matija Vodopivec

Over the past twenty-five years, wage inequality has fallen in Slovenia, even as it has risen in most developed economies. ...

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Do liberal arts colleges maximize profit?

Southern Economic Journal (2021)

Ann M Gansemer-Topf, Peter F Orazem and Darin R. Wohlgemuth

Revenue, cost, tuition, and scholarship data at private liberal arts colleges from 2003–2013 are used to estimate how each college's ...

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Entry Threat, Entry Delay, and Internet Speed: The Timing of ...

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (2020)

Kyle Wilson, Mo Xiao and Peter F. Orazem

In a rapidly growing industry, potential entrants strategically choose which local markets to enter. Facing the threat of additional entrants, ...

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The scarring effects of youth joblessness in Sri Lanka

Review of Development Economics (2020)

Murali Kuchibhotla, Peter F. Orazem and Sanjana Ravi

Retrospective data on labor market spells for successive cohorts of youth in the school‐to‐work transition in Sri Lanka are used ...

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How endogenous risk preferences and sample selection affect analysis of ...

Small Business Economics (2020)

Insoo Cho and Peter F. Orazem

The roles of selection and endogeneity in measured risk preferences are illustrated using the correlation between risk attitudes and firm ...

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Churning in Rural and Urban Retail Markets

The Review of Regional Studies (2020)

Georgeanne M. Artz, Liesl Eathington, Jasmine Francois, Melvin Masinde, et al.

Using data on the universe of taxable retail sales, retail firm start-ups, and retail firm exits in Iowa from 1992 ...

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Measuring Market Power in Professional Baseball, Basketball, Football, and Hockey

The American Economist (2020)

Gerald T. Healy, Jing Ru Tan and Peter F. Orazem

Using Forbes magazine’s estimates of the current value and revenues of professional sports teams, we derive a long-run variant of ...

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Optimal pricing strategies for a cluster of goods: own- and ...

Applied Economics (2020)

Francisco Rosas, Santiago Acerenza and Peter F. Orazem

Contingent valuation methods are used to identify observed and unobserved preferences of goods and services. We apply these methods, in ...

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Which Small Towns Attract Start‐Ups and Why? Twenty Years ...

American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2020)

Georgeanne M. Artz, Younjun Kim, Peter F. Orazem and Peter J. Han

Using data on a sample of small Iowa towns consistently collected over two decades, we investigate how agglomeration economies, social ...

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Performance Pay, the Marriage Market and Rising Income Inequality in ...

Review of Economics of the Household (2019)

Shao-Hsun Keng and Peter F. Orazem

Taiwan expanded its college access significantly over the past two decades by converting 2-year junior colleges to 4-year colleges and ...

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Revisiting the relationship between longevity and lifetime education: global evidence ...

Journal of Population Economics (2019)

Mohammad Mainul Hoque, Elizabeth M. King, Claudio E. Montenegro and Peter F. Orazem

The contrasting results from previous research motivate this reexamination of the longevity-schooling relationship. The study uses a different identification strategy ...

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Are Risk Attitudes Fixed Factors or Fleeting Feelings?

Journal of Labor Research (2018)

Insoo Cho, Peter F. Orazem and Tanya Rosenblat

We investigate the stability of measured risk attitudes over time, using a 13-year longitudinal sample of individuals in the National ...

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Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978–2014: Effects on Graduate ...

Journal of Human Capital (2017)

Shao-Hsun Keng, Chun-Hung Lin and Peter F. Orazem

Between 1990 and 2014, Taiwan increased the college share of its labor force from 7 to 32 percent by converting ...

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Do state business climate indicators explain relative economic growth at ...

Journal of Regional Science. (2016)

Georgeanne M. Artz, Kevin Duncan, Arthur Hall and Peter Orazem

This study submits eleven business climate indexes to tests of their ability to predict relative economic performance on either side ...

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Does agglomeration matter everywhere?: new firm location decisions in rural ...

Journal of Regional Science (2016)

Georgeanne M. Artz, Younjun Kim and Peter Orazem

We test whether commonly used measures of agglomeration economies encourage new firm entry in both urban and rural markets. Using ...

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Training funds and the incidence of training: the case of ...

Education Economics (2016)

Oluyemisi Kuku, Peter F. Orazem, Sawkut Rojid and Milan Vodopivec

Training funds are used to incentivize training in developing countries, but the funds are based on payroll taxes that lower ...

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Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur? The impacts of skills ...

IZA Journal of Labor Economics (2015)

Peter F Orazem, Robert Jolly and Li Yu

By allowing agents to switch from entrepreneurship to wage work and vice versa over the life cycle, this study proposes ...

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Promotion with and without Learning: Effects on Student Enrollment and ...

The World Bank Economic Review (2015)

Elizabeth M. King, Peter F. Orazem and Elizabeth M. Paterno

Automatic promotion policy presumes that grade retention discourages continuation in school and that the lenient promotion of students with poor ...

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Is Self-Sufficiency for Women’s Collegiate Athletics a Hoop Dream ...

Journal of Sports Economics (2014)

Francisco Rosas and Peter F. Orazem

Universities spend almost $2 billion subsidizing their collegiate sports programs. Even the most popular women’s sport, basketball, fails to break ...

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Are nonprofit entrepreneurs also Jacks-of-all-trades?

IZA Journal of Labor Economics (2014)

Insoo Cho and Peter F. Orazem

We investigate whether nonprofit and for-profit entrepreneurs share similar observable and unobservable skills. In JLE 23:649-680, 2005 ‘Jacks-of-all-Trades’ model of ...

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O-Ring production on U.S. hog farms: joint choices of ...

Agricultural Economics (2014)

Li Yu and Peter F. Orazem

We hypothesize that hog production can be characterized by complementarities between new technologies, worker skills, and farms size. Such production ...

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Entrepreneurship over the business cycle

Economics Letters (2014)

Li Yu, Peter F. Orazem and Robert W. Jolly

The fraction of self-employed rises in recessions because wage work is more sensitive than self-employment to the business cycle, not ...

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Does the Jack of all trades hold the winning hand ...

American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2014)

Georgeanne M. Artz, Kevin Kimle and Peter Orazem

This paper examines the roles of specialized versus general skills in explaining variation in the returns to an agriculture degree ...

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Mandatory costs by firm size thresholds: firm location, growth and ...

IZA Journal of Labor & Development (2014)

Babatunde O Abidoye, Peter F Orazem and Milan Vodopivec

Sri Lanka’s Termination of Employment of Workmen Act (TEWA) requires that firms with 15 or more workers justify layoffs and ...

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