Contact Information

Center for the Study of Higher and Post-Secondary Education

2108B School of Education

610 East University Avenue

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1259
Tel: (734) 647-8366
bpmccall@umich.edu

Recent Publications

• Jiyun Kim, Stephen L. DesJardins, and Brian P. McCall, 2009, “Exploring the Effects of Student Expectations about Financial Aid on Postsecondary Choice: A Focus on Income and Racial/Ethnic Differences,” Research in  Higher Education, 50: 741-774.

• Avner Ben-Ner, Brian P. McCall, Massoud Stephane, and Hua Wang, 2009, “Identity and In-Group and Out-Group Differentiation in Work and Giving Behaviors: Experimental Evidence,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 72: 153-170.

• David Card and Brian P. McCall, 2009, “When to Start a Fight and When to Fight Back: Liability Disputes in the Worker’s Compensation System,” Journal of Labor Economics, 27:149-178.
• Elizabeth Davis, Matthew Freedman, Julia Lane, Brian McCall, Nicole Nestoriak and Timothy Park, 2009, “Product Market Competition and Human Resource Practices in the Retail Food Sector,” Industrial Relations, 48: 350-371.

• Wei Chi and Brian P. McCall, 2008,  "Unemployment Insurance, Unemployment Durations, and Re-employment Wages," Economics Letters, 99, 115-118.
  

• Brian McCall, Irwin Horwitz, and Bethanie Carr,  2007, "Adolescent Occupational Injuries and Workplace Risks: An Analysis of Oregon Workers’ Compensation Data 1990–1997," Journal of Adolescent Health, 41, 248-255.
  
• Stephen L. DesJardins, Dennis A. Ahlburg, and Brian P. McCall, 2006, “The Effects of Interrupted Enrollment on Graduation from College: Racial, Income, and Ability Differences,” Economics of Education Review, 25, 575-590.
• Elizabeth E. Davis,  Matthew Freedman, Julia Lane, Brian McCall,  Nicole Nestoriak, and Timothy Park,  2006, “Supermarket Human Resource Practices and Competition from Mass Merchandisers”, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 88, 1289-1295. 
  
• Rachel Connelly, Deborah Degraff, Deborah Levison, and Brian McCall, 2006, “Tackling Endogeneity: Alternatives for the Analysis of Women’s Employment and Child Care in Brazil,” Feminist Economics, 12(4): 561-597.
• Stephen L. DesJardins, Dennis A. Ahlburg, and Brian P. McCall, 2006, “An Integrated Model of Application, Admission, Enrollment, and Financial Aid,” Journal of Higher Education, 77, 81-429.
  
  

Working Papers

• Stephen L. DesJardins, Brian P. McCall, Molly Ott and Jiyun Kim, 2009, "A Quasi-Experimental Investigation of How the Gates Millennium Scholars Program Affects College Students’ Time Use and Activities," mimeo.
  
• Stephen L. DesJardins and Brian P. McCall, 2008, “The Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program on the Retention, College Finance- and Work-Related Choices, and Future Educational   Aspirations of Low-Income Students,” mimeo.
• Fredrik Andersson, Elizabeth Davis, Matthew L. Freedman, Julia I. Lane, Brian P. McCall, L. Kristin Sandusky, 2008, “Decomposing the Sources of Earnings Inequality: Assessing the Role of  Reallocation” mimeo.

Books

• Brian P. McCall and John J.McCall, 2008,   The Economics of Search. Routledge: London.

Other Activities 

• Associate Editor, Economics of Education Review, 2007-