Susan B. Carter
Professor

4101 Sproul Hall
Phone: (951) 827-1589
Fax: (951) 827-5685
Email: susan.carter@ucr.edu

Education

• Ph.D., Stanford University, Economics
• M.A., Stanford University, Economics
• B.S., New York University, Economics

Research

• Historical Perspectives on the Labor Market
• Household Behavior
• Education
• Discrimination
• Population Dynamics

Publications

• Research in Economic History, Vols. 14 and 15, (1992 and 1995), edited with Roger Ransom and Richard Sutch).
  
  
• "Self-Employment, Life-Cycle Behavior, and Evidence of Modern Retirement in Turn-of-the-Century America," with Richard Sutch, Journal of Economic History 1995 (forthcoming).
  
  
• "Fixing the Facts: Editing of the 1880 U.S. Census of Occupations with Implications for Long-Term Labor Force Trends and the Sociology of Official Statistics," with Richard Sutch, Historical Methods (Winter 1996), forthcoming.
  
  
• "The Labor Market A Hundred Years Ago," with Richard Sutch, in Trevor O. Dick, ed. Business Cycles Since 1820: New Perspectives from Historical Data, Chelten, UK: Edward Elgar, forthcoming, 1995.
  
  
• "Labor Economics: An Introduction for Historians," with Stephen Cullenberg, in Thomas Rawski, ed.. Economics and the Historian, Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming 1996.

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