Department of Economics, University of Michigan


			Charles Brown Professor of Economics PhD, Harvard, 1974 U of M Affiliation(s) Research Professor, Survey Research Center Contact Information University of Michigan Department of Economics 611 Tappan 217 Lorch Hall Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220 Phone: 734-763-3036 (Lorch Hall) 734-763-6867 (SRC) Fax: 734-764-2769 Email: charlieb@umich.edu

Fields of Study Labor Economics About Charles Brown Professor Brown is an empirically-oriented labor economist. His past research has focused on topics such as compensating differentials, effects of minimum wage laws and of EEO policies, the determinants of enlistment and re-enlistment in the military, and the relationship between employer size and labor market outcomes. Current work focuses on measurement error in survey data, early-retirement "windows", and consequences of the relatively equal opportunity in the military for children of black soldiers. Publications Brown, Charles, "Relatively Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces: Impacts on Children of Military Families," December 2000, work in progress. Bound, John, Charles Brown and Nancy Mathiowetz, "Measurement Error in Survey Data," Handbook of Econometrics Vol. 5, Eds. James Heckman and Edward Leamer, 2001. Brown, Charles and James Medoff. "Firm Age and Wages," Journal of Labor Economics, July 2003. Brown, Charles, "Early Retirement Windows," Forecasting Retirement Needs and Retirement Wealth, eds. Olivia S. Mitchell, Brett Hammond and Anna Rappaport, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Brown, Charles, "Minimum Wages, Employment, and the Distribution of Income," Handbook of Labor Economics Vol. 3, eds. Orley Ashenfelter and David Card, Elsevier, 1999. Brown, Charles and Mary Corcoran, "Sex-Based Differences in School Content and the Male/Female Wage Gap," Journal of Labor Economics, 15(3), July 1997 Part 1, 431-465. Bound, John, Charles Brown, Greg Duncan and Willard Rodgers, "Evidence on the Validity of Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Labor Market Data on Earnings," Journal of Labor Economics, 12(3), July 1994, 345-368. Brown, Charles and James Medoff, "The Employer Size Wage Effect," Journal of Political Economy, 97(5), October 1989, 1027-1059. "Firms' Choice of Method of Pay," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, February 1990. Reprinted in R. Ehrenberg, ed., Do Compensation Policies Matter?, ILR Press, Cornell University, 1990.