People
Courses
Mathematics for Economists
ECON 9600L-001
Empirical Industrial Organization
ECON 3362B-001
Industrial Organization I - Empirical
ECON 9634B-001
David Rivers
Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP)
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010
Office: SSC 4024
Telephone: 519-661-2111 Ext. 80446
Fax: 519-661-3666
E-mail: drivers2@uwo.ca
Research Interests
Industrial Organization, Productivity, Economics of Crime, Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics
Teaching Fields
Industrial Organization
Representative Publications
"Model Uncertainty and the Effect of Shall-Issue Right-to-Carry Laws on Crime," European Economic Review, 81, 2016 (with Steven N. Durlauf and Salvador Navarro).
"Understanding Aggregate Crime Regressions," Journal of Econometrics, 158(2), (2010): 306-317. doi: 10.1016.jeconom.2010.01.003, with S. N. Durlauf and S. Navarro.
"On the Interpretation of Aggregate Crime Regressions," in R. Rosenfeld and A. S. Goldberger (eds.), Understanding Crime Trends, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. (2008), with Steven Durlauf and Salvador Navarro.
Working Papers
"On the Identification of Production Functions: How Heterogeneous is Productivity?" (with Amit Gandhi and Salvador Navarro).
"Separating State Dependence, Experience, and Heterogeneity in a Model of Youth Crime and Education," (with Maria Antonella Mancino and Salvador Navarro).
"Criminal Discount Factors and Deterrence," (with Giovanni Mastrobuoni).
"Are Exporters More Productive than Non-Exporters?"
