Alan Seals
	Dept. of Economics Auburn University phone: (334) 844-2907 email: alan.seals@auburn.edu Curriculum Vitae Pictures of My Family Olivia Maryanna Henry

Research Interests

Labor Economics

Economics of the Family

Economics of Crime

Publications

“Internet Use and Discouraged Workers” (with Randy Beard, George Ford, and Richard Saba) Telecommunications Policy (forthcoming).

“Demographic Change and Murder Rates: The Case of the United States 1934-2006” (with John Nunley and Joachim Zietz) Journal of Socio-Economics , Vol. 40, No. 6 (2011): 942-948.

“Child-Custody Reform, Marital Investment in Children, and the Labor Supply of Married Mothers” (with John Nunley) Labour Economics , Vol. 18, No. 1(2011): 14-24.

“The Effects of Household Income Volatility on Divorce” (with John Nunley) American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 69, No. 3 (2010): 983-1010.

“The Effect of Joint-Child-Custody Legislation on the Child-Support Receipt of Single Mothers” (with John Nunley and Brandeanna Allen) Journal of Family and Economic Issues , Vol. 32, No. 1(2011): 124-139.

“Are Gangs a Substitute for Legitimate Employment? Investigating the Impact of Labor Market Effects on Gang Affiliation.” Kyklos, Vol. 62, No. 3 (2009): 406-424.

Current Research Projects

“Joint-Custody Reform and the Division of Labor in Households” (with John Nunley)

“The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on Property Crime” (with John Nunley and Joachim Zietz)

“Cognitive Ability and Division of Labor in Urban Ghettos: Evidence from Gang Activity in U.S. Data”

“Troubled Kids Or Shrewd Negotiators: The Case of Runaway Children” (with Amy Cataldi and Jon Willner)

“Does Bill Co-sponsorship Affect Campaign Contributions?: Evidence from the U.S. House of Representatives, 2000-2008” (with Shaun Tanger and David Laband)

“Toward the Isolation of the Effect of Prison Gang Membership on Recidivism: Evidence from Illinois State Prison Records” (with David Skarbek and Brendan Dooley)

“The Political Economy of Security in Unstable Regions” (with Randy Beard and Michael Stern)

General News and Information

Video Lectures

Marginal Revolution

Science Magazine

Nature

The Financial Times

The New York Times

The Atlantic Monthly

The New Yorker

The Economist

The Wall Street Journal

Foreign Affairs

Wikipedia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Library of Congress

Project Gutenberg

University of Michigan Library Documents Center

Economics and Other Links

Auburn University Economics Working Paper Series

National Bureau of Economic Research

Gary S. Becker’s Web Page

Gregory Clark’s Web Page

Ariel Rubenstein’s Web Page

Robert Auman’s Web Page

Herbert Gintis’ Web Page

Joe Henrich’s Web Page

David Skarbek’s Web Page

Edward Glaeser’s Web Page

Daron Acemoglu’s Web Page

Justin Wolfers’s Web Page

Steven Levitt’s Web Page

The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

Open Directory Project links to web pages on History of Economic Thought

The Library of Economics and Liberty

Resources for Economists

RAND Corporation

EconPapers

History of Economic Thought

Data

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research

Economagic

FRED

Bureau of Labor Statistics

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth

Keeping Track: A Guide to Longitudinal Studies

Bureau of Justice Statistics

Econometrics Links

Econometrics Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

Daniel McFadden’s Web Page

James Heckman’s Web Page

Colin Cameron’s Web Page

Ken Train’s Web Page

William Greene’s Web Page

Steven Durlauf’s Web Page

Jeffrey M. Wooldridge’s Web Page

Josh Angrist’s Web Page

Music that is Awesome

Smithsonian Folkways

Django Reinhardt Swing Page

Redhot Jazz (Link to more Django)

Rounder Records

Downbeat Magazine

Acoustic Magazine

Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop

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