Paul Courant
Funded Research:
A Cost-Benefit Study of Major Environmental Infrastructure Improvements to the Great Lakes (Brookings Institution)
Cost of Storing a Book (Council on Library and Information Resources)
Modeling the Impact and Costs of Radon Policy for Lung Cancer Control (NCI)
The Future of the Public Research University in America (Spencer Foundation)
Professor, G. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
Professor, Economics, University of Michigan.
Faculty Associate, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.
Ph.D., Princeton University
Dr. Courant has authored half a dozen books, and over 60 monographs and papers covering a broad range of topics in economics and public policy, including tax policy, local economic development, gender differences in pay, housing, and public health, and relationships between economic growth and environmental policy.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Noonan, Mary C., Mary E. Corcoran, and Paul Courant. 2008. "Is the partnership gap closing for women? Cohort differences in the sex gap in partnership chances." Social Science Research, 37(1): 156-179. DOI:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2007.06.005. Licensed Access.
Sallee, James, Resch, A.M., and Paul Courant. 2008. "On the optimal allocation of students and resources in a system of higher education." B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 8(1). DOI:10.2202/1935-1682.1871. Public Access.
Courant, Paul, M. McPherson, and A.M. Resch. 2006. "The public role in higher education." National Tax Journal, 59(2), 291-318. Public Access.
Schmidt, Lucie, and Paul Courant. 2006. "Sometimes close is good enough: The value of nearby environmental amenities." Journal of Regional Science, 46(5): 931-951. DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9787.2006.00491.x. Licensed Access.
Noonan, Mary C., M.E. Corcoran , and Paul Courant. 2005. "Pay differences among the highly trained: Cohort differences in the sex gap in lawyers' earnings." Social Forces, 84(2): 853-872. Licensed Access.
Courant, Paul. 2004. "The Value of Liberal Education: Liberal Learning is Worth its High Cost-and Should be Available to All." Swarthmore College Bulletin, CI(4): 18-24. Public Access.
Chapters
Courant, Paul. 2008. "Scholarship: the wave of the future in the digital age." In The tower and the cloud: higher education in the age of cloud computing edited by Katz, Richard N.. :202-211. Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE.
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Bingenheimer & Geronimus, "Behavior & HIV"
Wildeman, "Imprisonment & Infant Mortality," PSC Research Report
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