Dennis Epple

Thomas Lord University Professor of Economics

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Education

• Princeton University - Ph D (Economics) - 1975
• Princeton University - MS (Economics) - 1973
• Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs - MS (Public Affairs) - 1971
• Purdue University - BS (Aeronautical Engineering) - 1968

Publications

• A New Approach to Estimating Hedonic Equilibrium for Metropolitan Housing Markets

  (author(s): Dennis Epple, Luis Quintero, Holger Sieg)
  Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming, March 2020

• Market Power and Price Discrimination in the U.S. Market for Higher Education

  (author(s): Dennis Epple, Richard Romano, Sinan Sarpca, Holger Sieg, and Melanie Zaber)
  Rand Journal of Economics 50(1), Spring 2019; 201-225

• Majority Choice of an Income Targeted Educational Voucher

  (author(s): Dennis Epple, R. Romano, S. Sarpca)
  AEJ-Microeconomics 10(4), November 2018; 289-325

• The Superintendent's Dilemma: Managing School District Capacity as Parents Vote with Their Feet

  (author(s): Dennis Epple, A. Jha, H. Sieg)
  Quantitative Economics 9(1), March 2018; 483-520

• Educational Vouchers: A Survey of the Economics Literature

  (author(s): Dennis Epple, R. Romano, M. Urquiola)
  Journal of Economic Literature 55(2), June 2017; 441-492

• Admitting Students to Selective Education Programs: Merit, Profiling, and Affirmative Action

  (author(s): Dennis Epple, D. Cestau, H. Sieg)
  Journal of Political Economy 125(3), June 2017; 761-797

• Learning by Doing in Multi-Product Manufacturing: Variety, Customizations and Overlapping Product Generations

  (author(s): C. Egelman, Dennis Epple, Linda Argote, E. R. H. Fuchs)
  Management Science 63(2), 2017; 405-423

• The U.S. Market for Higher Education: A General Equilibrium Analysis of State and Private Colleges and Public Funding Policies

  (author(s): Dennis Epple, Richard Romano, Sinan Sarpca, Holger Sieg)
  Journal of Public Economics

• Majority Choice of Tax Systems in Single- and Multi-Jurisdictional Economies

  (author(s): Stephen Calabrese, Dennis Epple, Richard Romano)
  Journal of Public Economics 131, 2015; 58-70

• Evaluating Education Programs That Have Lotteried Admission and Selective Attrition

  (author(s): Dennis Epple, John Engberg, Jason Imbrogno, Holger Sieg, Ron Zimmer)
  Journal of Labor Economics 32(1), 2014

• Inefficiencies from Metropolitan Political and Fiscal Decentralization: Failures of Tiebout Competition

  (author(s): Stephen Calabrese, Dennis Epple, Richard Romano)
  Review of Economic Studies 79(3), 2012; 1081-1111

• Admission, Tuition, and Financial Aid Policies in the Market for Higher Education

  (author(s): Dennis Epple, Richard Romano, Holger Sieg)
  Econometrica 74(4), 2006; 885-928

• Estimating Equilibrium Models of Local Jurisdictions

  (author(s): Dennis Epple, Holger Sieg)
  Journal of Political Economy 107(4), 1999; 645-681

• Competition between Private and Public Schools, Vouchers and Peer-Group Effects

  (author(s): Dennis Epple, Richard Romano)
  American Economic Review 88(1), 1998; 33-62

• The Acquisition, Transfer, and Depreciation of Knowledge in Service Organizations: Productivity in Franchises

  (author(s): E. Darr, Linda Argote, Dennis Epple)
  Management Science 41(11), 1995; 1750-1762

• Mobility and Redistribution

  (author(s): Dennis Epple, T. Romer)
  Journal of Political Economy 99(4), 1991; 828-858

• Equilibrium Among Local Jurisdictions: Toward an Integrated Treatment of Voting and Residential Choice

  (author(s): Dennis Epple, R. Filimon, T. Romer)
  Journal of Public Economics 24(3), 1984; 281-308

University Service

• Budget and Financial Affairs Committee (2014 - )
• Steering Committee Program for Interdisciplinary Education Research (2010 - )
• Economics Program, Head (2005 - 2014)

Public Service

• American Economic Association, Chairperson, Committee on Oversight and Operation of Programs (2011 - )
• Working Group on Human Capital and Economic Opportunity: Measuring and Interpreting Inequality (2011 - )
• CESifo Research Network, Member, Research Network (2006 - )
• Natural Bureau of Economic Research, Research Associate (1998 - )
• Econometric Society Winter Meetings, Program Committee (2009 - 2009)
• Econometric Society North American Summer Meetings, Program Co-Chair with Stan Zin (2008 - 2008)
• MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Economic Inequality and Social Interactions (1998 - 2005)

Professional Activities

• Committee Member, American Economic Association, Committee to Nominate Officers and Distinguished Fellows (2016 -)
• Editorial Review Board Member, Research In Economics (2015 -)
• Co-Editor, Journal of Public Economics (2006 - 2014)
• Board of Editors, Journal of Public Economics (2001 - 2006)
• Board of Editors, Quarterly Journal of Economics (2001 - 2005)
• Board of Editors, American Economic Review (1999 - 2003)
• Co-Editor, American Economic Review (1994 - 1999)