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Institution
  
Columbia University


Name
  
W. MacLeod

Fields
  
Labour economics

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Born
  
1954 (age 61–62)
Germany

Alma mater
  
Queen's University, University of British Columbia

Education
  
Queen's University, University of British Columbia

Nationality
  
Canada, United States

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William Bentley MacLeod (born 1954) is a Canadian-American economist. He is the Sami Mnaymneh Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and an Affiliated Faculty at Columbia Law School. He is a specialist in the fields of law, labor and contract theory.

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Education

MacLeod received a B.A. with distinction in Mathematics from Queen's University in 1975 and an M.Sc. in Mathematics from Queen's University in 1979. He completed his economics doctorate at the University of British Columbia in 1984.

Academic career

He began his teaching career at Queen's University, then he taught at Université de Montréal, Boston College, University of Southern California, California Institute of Technology and Princeton University, before coming to Columbia University. He has also held one year visiting positions at Center for Operations Research and Econometrics(Belgium), Instituto de Análisis Económico(Barcelona), the Russell Sage Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Studies. He was elected fellow of the Econometric Society in 2005, and fellow of the Society of Labor Economists in 2012. He is also the recipient of the 2002 H. Gregg Lewis prize awarded by the Society of Labor Economists for his article "Worker Cooperation and the Ratchet" with H. Lorne Carmichael.

Notable publications

  • "Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment" by MacLeod and Malcomson
  • "First Do No Harm? Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes" mentioned in Tort Reform.
  • "Optimal Contracting with Subjective Evaluation," American Economic Review: Vol. 93 No. 1 (March 2003).
  • “Performance Pay and Wage Inequality”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, Vol. 124, Issue 1 (joint with T. Lemieux and D. Parent)
  • "Administrative Corruption and Taxation", by Frank Flatters and W. Bentley Macleod. Reprinted in "The Economics Of Corruption And Illegal Markets".
  • Personal life

    MacLeod is married to Janet Currie, an economist at Princeton University. They have two children.

    References

    W. Bentley MacLeod Wikipedia