Education
Ph.D., UCLA, 1980
M.A., University of Houston, 1973
B.S., Stephen F. Austin State, 1969

Courses Taught
ECON 2000 - Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 4220 - Wage and Employment Analysis
ECON 4421 - Health Care Economics
ECON 4720 - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
ECON 7250 - Wage and Employment Analysis
ECON 7700 - Price Theory I

Interests
Teaching Interest: Labor Economics, Health Economics

Research Interest: Labor and Health Economics

Selected Research Publications
''Do Academic Salaries Decline with Seniority?.'' Journal of Labor Economics, 1998. (with W. J. Moore and G. Turnbull).

''Drug Formulary Restrictions as a Cost-Containment Policy in Medicaid Programs.'' Journal of Law and Economics, April 1993. (with W. J. Moore).

''Welfare Expenditures and the Decline of Unions.'' Review of Economics and Statistics, August 1989. (with W. J. Moore and Loren Scott).

''Regional Wage Differentials and the Convergence of Worker Characteristic Prices.'' Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1989. Robert J. Newman and Stephen Farber.

''Econometric Analysis of Business Tax Impacts on Industrial Location: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?.'' Journal of Urban Economics, March 1988. (with Dennis Sullivan).

''Accounting for South/Non-South Real Wage Differentials and for Changes in Those Differentials Over Time.'' Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1987. (with Steven Farber).

''Industry Migration and Growth in the South.'' Review of Economics and Statistics, February 1983

''On the Prospects for American Trade Union Growth: A Cross Section Analysis.'' Review of Economics and Statistics, November 1975. Robert J. Newman and W. J. Moore.

Books
Growth in the American South. Robert J. Newman. New York: New York University Press, 1984.


Editorial Appointments
Editor, Journal of Labor Research

Employed by LSU since
8/17/1983