Mike Hilmer

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Education

• Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, June 1996
  Dissertation: Essays on Community College Transfer Students
  Fields of Concentration: Labor Economics, Public Finance
• M.A., Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, March 1993
• B.A., Economics, California State University, Northridge, May 1991

Professional Service

• Associate Editor, Economics of Education Review, January, 2004-December, 2008
• Content Expert, US Department of Education, The New ERIC, August 2004-Present
  
  

Selected Publications

Textbooks

• Hilmer, Christiana E. and Hilmer, Michael J. (2014) Practical Econometrics: Data Collection, Analysis, and Application McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 9780073511412 / 0073511412, www.mhhe.com/hilmer1e.

Journal Articles

• Hilmer, Michael J. and Hilmer, Christiana E. (2022) “Insights from a Decade in the Life of Public Ph.D. Granting Agricultural Economics Departments.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Featured Article.
• Hilmer, Michael J., Ransom, Michael R., and Hilmer, Christiana E. (2021) “Meritocracy in Academic Labor Markets: A Comparison of Three Fields” Journal of Economic Inequality.
• Hilmer, Michael J. and Hilmer, Christiana E. (2021) “Does Confirmation Bias Exist in Judged Events at the Olympic Games” (with Christiana E. Hilmer) Journal of Quantitative Analysis of Sport 17(1): 1-10. Lead Article.
• Hilmer, Michael J. and Hilmer, Christiana E. (2020) “On the Labor Market for Full-Time Non-Tenure-Track Lecturers in Economics” (with Christiana Hilmer) Economics of Education Review, 78.
• Hilmer, Michael J. and Hilmer, Christiana E. (2019) “Do Local Amenities Increase Monopsony Power?” Economics Bulletin 39(4): 2467:2475.
• Eide, Eric R., Hilmer, Michael J., and Showalter, Mark (2016) “Is It Where You Go or What You Study: The Relative of College Quality and College Major on Earnings and Graduate School Attendance” Contemporary Economic Policy, 34(1): 37-46.
  - Listed as “the most downloaded article ever published in CEP” on August 6, 2020. https://twitter.com/CEP_WEAI/status/1291404206126112770
• Hilmer, Michael J., Ransom, Michael, and Hilmer, Christiana E. (2015) “Fame and the Fortunes of Academic Economists: How the Market Rewards Influential Research” Southern Economic Journal, 82(2): 430-452.
  - Included in the American Economic Association, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) “Related Literature” page https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/committees/cswep/survey/related-literature
• Hilmer, Michael J. and Hilmer, Christiana E. (2012) “On the Search for Talent in the Labor Market for Academic Economists: Easily-Observable Later Graduate Study Outcomes as Predictors of Early-Career Publishing, Placement, and Tenure” Economic Inquiry, 50(1): 232-247.
• Hilmer, Michael J. and Hilmer, Christiana E. (2012) “On the Relationship Between Students Tastes and Motivations, Higher Education Decisions, and Annual Earnings” Economics of Education Review, 31(1): 66-75.
• Hilmer, Christiana E, Hilmer, Michael J. and Lusk Jayson L. (2012) “A Comparison of Salary Structures Between Economics and Agricultural Economics Departments” Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy, 34(3): 489-514.
• Hilmer, Michael J. and Hilmer, Christiana E. “Is it Where You Go or Who You Know? On the Relationship between Students, Ph.D. Program Quality, Dissertation Advisor Prominence, and Early Career Publishing Success” (2011) Economics of Education Review, 30(5): 991-996.
  
  

Funded Research Grants

• “Does Access to Community College Improve the Educational and Labor Market Outcomes of Hispanics? Russell Sage Foundation Grant, RSF Project #:85-00-15. July, 2000-June 2001. Co-PI with Arturo Gonzalez, Mexican American Studies & Research Center, University of Arizona ($61,400)
• “Community College Transfer Students and Labor Market Outcomes,” AERA grants program. (NSF Grant #RED-9452861), 1999 – 2000. ($20,000)
  
  

Selected Conference Presentations

• “On the Relative Age Among Olympic Medalists” ISER International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, May, 2023.
  - Best Paper Award Winner
• “The Effect of Community College Attendance on the Early Career Outcomes of Minority Students: A Quantile Regression Approach” ISER International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, May, 2023.
• “So You Have a Ph.D. in Economics and You Get Offered a Full-Time Non-Tenure-Track Teaching Position: What Can You Expect?” (with Christiana Hilmer)
  International Society for Engineers and Researchers, Phuket, Thailand, August, 2019.
• “Do Local Amenities Increase Monopsony Power” (with Christiana Hilmer) International Society for Engineers and Researchers, Phuket, Thailand, August, 2019.
• “On Confirmation Bias in Judged Events at the Olympic Games” (with Christiana Hilmer) International Conference on Current Research in the field of Social Sciences, Strategic Management and Applied Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, November, 2018.
• “The Effect of Community College Attendance on the Early Career Earnings of Hispanic Males: A Quantile Regression Approach” (with Christiana Hilmer) International Conference on Current Research in the field of Social Sciences, Strategic Management and Applied Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, November, 2018.
  
  

Referee for Peer-Reviewed Grants

• National Science Foundation, 2007
  
  

Referee for Peer-Reviewed Journals