Theodore Joyce

Ted Joyce, Ph.D., is a Professor of Economics at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, the City University of New York and a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research’s program in Health Economics. He has published extensively in the area economic demography and reproductive health policy. His work on abortion policy has appeared in the Journal of Political Economy, New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Journal of Human Resources and the Review of Economics and Statistics. His recent research projects include a three-year study funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) on the effect of state laws on teen fertility. Professor Joyce is also interested in the econometrics of program evaluation and is involved in several projects evaluating the effectiveness of online learning formats relative to traditional lecture classes. He recently headed a randomized experiment of student performance in a hybrid versus a traditional lecture of introductory microeconomics that was published in the Economics of Education Review. He is also collaborating with other researchers on the effectiveness of honors college programs at public universities. Specifically, how well do students in an honor college program at a public university do in terms graduation rates, graduate school admissions and wages relative to students who were accepted to the honors college but chose to attend a private university.