Economics

Sharon G. Levin, Ph.D.

 



Professor Emeritus
Department of Economics levin

Email: slevin@umsl.edu
webpage: http://www.umsl.edu/%7eecoslevi

Professor Levin earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1973 and joined the Department in 1974. From 1987-1998 she served as department chair. Her fields of interest are applied microeconomics and applied econometrics. Recently with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, she has been studying issues concerning immigration and the quality and composition of the scientific labor force in the United States. Among her publications are: Striking the Mother Lode in Science, Oxford University Press, 1992; "Are the Foreign Born a Source of Strength for U.S. Science?" Science, 1999; "The Critical Importance of Careers in Collaborative Scientific Research," Revue D'Economic Industriellc, 1997; Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in Science," Small Business Economics, in 1996; "Age and the Nobel Prize Revisited," Scientometrics, 1993; "Market Structure, Uncertainty, and Intrafirm Diffusion: The Case of Optical Scanners in Grocery Stores," The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1992; and "Research Productivity over the Life Cycle: Evidence for Academic Scientists," American Economics Review, 1991. In 1993 she was awarded the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research and Creativity.