Edward Montgomery

Dean, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences

Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: 301-405-3498
Email: montgome@econ.umd.edu
 

Edward Montgomery, Dean, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor, received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1982. Prior to joining the faculty at Maryland in 1990, he held positions at Michigan State University in 1986-90 and at Carnegie Mellon University in 1981-86. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has served as Deputy Secretary, Assistant Secretary for Policy, and Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. He has also held positions as a Visiting Scholar at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. He was a member of the U.S. Department of Labor's Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Benefits. His current research centers on the effects of economic and social policy on labor market behavior. Publications include: "Pensions and Wage Premia" (with Kathryn Shaw), Economic Inquiry, 1997; "Affirmative Action and Reservations in the American and Indian Labor Markets: Are They Really That Bad?" in A Not So Dismal Science, edited by Mancur Olson, 2000, "Cross State Variation in Medical Programs and Female Labor Supply (with John Navin), Economic Inquiry, July 2000, "Do Workplace Smoking Bans Reduce Smoking," (with William Evans and Matthew Farrelly), American Economic Review, September 1999.