Lance Lochner
Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1998
Office: SSC 4022
Telephone: 519-661-2111 Ext. 85281
Fax: 519-661-3666
E-mail: llochner@uwo.ca
Research Interests
Labour Economics; Economics of Education; Economics of Crime
Teaching Fields
Labour Economics
Representative Publications
Lochner, Lance, Todd Stinebrickner, and Utku Suleymanoglu, “Parental Support, Savings and Student Loan Repayment,” American Economic Journal – Policy, 13(1), 2021: 329-371.
Bowlus, Audra, Eda Bozkurt, Lance Lochner and Chris Robinson, “Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change: The Canonical Model Revisited”, Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.
Bastian, Jacob, and Lance Lochner, “The EITC and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?” Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming.
Caucutt, Elizabeth, and Lance Lochner, “Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the Family,” Journal of Political Economy, 128(3), 2020:1065-1147. (Online Appendix)
"Correlation, Consumption, Confusion, or Constraints: Why Do Poor Children Perform so Poorly?" The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 119(1): 102-147 (2017), with Elizabeth Caucutt and Youngmin Park.
"Student Loans and Repayment: Theory, Evidence and Policy," in E. Hanushek, S. Machin, and L. Woessmann (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, vol. 5, Chapter 8, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science (2016), with Alexander Monge-Naranjo.
"Estimating and Testing Models with Many Treatment Levels and Limited Instruments," Review of Economics and Statistics 97 (2): 387-397 (2014), with Enrico Moretti.
- Stata code for specification test
- Help file for stata code
"The Impact of Family Income On Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit," American Economic Review (2012), with Gordon B. Dahl. (Online Appendix)
- Correction and Addendum to "The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit" (March 2016), with Gordon B. Dahl. (Related data and code)
"Credit Constraints in Education," Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 4: 225-256 (2012), with Alexander Monge-Naranjo.
"The Nature of Credit Constraints and Human Capital" American Economic Review, 101(6): 2487-2529 (October 2011), with Alexander Monge-Naranjo. (Online Appendix)
"The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement," Journal of Human Capital, 1(1): 37-89 (Winter 2007), with Philippe Belley.
"Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System," American Economic Review, 97(1): 444-460 (March 2007).
"The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports," American Economic Review, 94(1): 155-189 (March 2004), with E. Moretti.
"Education, Work, and Crime: A Human Capital Approach," International Economic Review, 45(3): 811-43 (August 2004).
"Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents," Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 1(1) (January 1998), with J. Heckman and C. Taber.
