Education
PhD, Cornell University, 2007
BA, Brigham Young University, 2003
Research and Professional Experience
Joseph Price is a Professor of Economics at Brigham Young University, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Fellow at the Wheatley Institute, and the Director of the BYU Record Linking Lab. Dr. Price loves mentored research with students and has over 60 undergraduate research assistants at BYU and helps mentor 400 BYU Pathway students in Africa. Dr. Price has published over 50 articles including articles in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Health Economics, Demography, and Management Science. He and his wife, Emily, are the parents of seven children (including two attending BYU and one serving a mission in Uruguay).
Selected Publications
Gabriel, Ryan; Adrian Haws, Amy Bailey, and Joseph Price. The Migration of Lynch Victims' Families, 1880-1930, Demography, 60(4), 1235-1256, 2023.
Bailey, Martha; Susan Leonard; Joseph price; Evan Roberts; Logan Spector; and Mengying Zhang. Breathing New Life into Death Certificates: Extracting Handwritten Cause of Death in the LIFE-M Project. Explorations in Economic History, 87, 1-10, 2023.
Michelman, Valerie; Joseph Price, and Seth Zimmerman. Old Boys' Clubs and Upward Mobility Among the Educational Elite Quarterly Journal of Economics, 137(2), 845-909, 2022.
Cotton, Christopher; Brent Hickman, and Joseph Price. Affirmative Action and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment Journal of Labor Economics, 40(1), 157-185, 2022.
Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Joseph Price, and Dahai Yue. The Association Between Educational Attainment and Longevity Using Individual-level Data from the 1940 Census. Journal of Health Economics, 84, 2022.
Price, Joseph; Kasey Buckles, Isaac Riley, and Jacob Van Leeuwen. Combining Family History and Machine Learning to Link Historical Records Explorations in Economic History, 80, 1-28, 2021.
Hall, Jonathan; Craig Palsson, and Joseph Price (2018). Is Uber a Complement or Substitute with Public Transit?. Journal of Urban Economics.
Pope, Devin; Joseph Price, and Justin Wolfers (2018). Awareness Reduces Racial Bias. Management Science.
Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, Joseph Price (2017). Productivity Spillovers in Team Production: Evidence from Professional Basketball. Journal of Labor Economics.
Loewsenstein, George; Joseph Price, and Kevin Volpp (2016). Habit formation in Children: Evidence from Eating Fruits and Vegetables. Journal of Health Economics.
Kasey Buckles, Joseph Price (2013). Selection and the Marriage Premium for Infant Health. Demography.
David Just, Joseph Price (2013). Using Incentives to Encourage Healthy Eating in Children. Journal of Human Resources.
Kasey Buckles, Melanie Guldi, Joseph Price (2011). Changing the Price of Marriage. Journal of Human Resources.
Joseph Price, Justin Wolfers (2010). Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees. Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Joseph Price (2008). Parent-Child Quality Time: Does Birth Order Matter? Journal of Human Resources.
Fall Office Hours
By appointment - joseph_price@byu.edu