CURRICULUM VITAE OF JEFFREY MIRON February, 2017 Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer Department of Economics Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Director of Economic Studies and Senior Fellow Cato Institute 1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington, DC 20001 (617) 495-4129 (office) (781) 856-0086 (cell) (617) 495-8570 (fax) [email protected] Education Swarthmore College, B.A. in Economics, Magna Cum Laude, 1979. M.I.T., Ph.D. in Economics, 1984. Honors, Fellowships, and Awards Phi Beta Kappa, 1979 Joshua P. Lippincott Fellowship for Graduate Study, 1979. Social Science Research Council Fellowship, 1981. Rackham Faculty Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1987 Olin Fellowship, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1988 – 1989. Sloan Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship, 1990 – 1992. Senior Class List of Favorite Teachers, Harvard College, 2006 Senior Class List of Favorite Teachers, Harvard College, 2007 1 Senior Class List of Favorite Teachers, Harvard College, 2008 Alfred R. Lindesmith Award, Awarded by the Drug Policy Alliance for Drug Policy Scholarship, 2009. Senior Class List of Favorite Teachers, Harvard College, 2010 Senior Class List of Favorite Teachers, Harvard College, 2011 Senior Class List of Favorite Teachers, Harvard College, 2016 Senior Class List of Favorite Teachers, Harvard College, 2017 Charles Koch Fellowship, 2013-present Professional Activities Visiting Honors Examiner in Economic Theory, Swarthmore College, 1986. Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, Program in Financial Markets and Monetary Economics, 1985 – 1989. Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, Program in Economic Fluctuations, 1988 – 1989. Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1989 – present. Committee Member, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Drug Use and the Workplace, 1992 – 1993. Associate Editor, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 1992 – 1995. Board of Academic Advisors, Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, May, 1995 – 2009. President, Bastiat Institute, April, 1999 – June, 2005. Reviewer, National Academies of Sciences’ Report on Improving Research Information and Data on Firearms, July, 2003. Rogge Memorial Lecture, Wabash College, Why Thoughtful Conservatives Should be Libertarians: The Pitfalls of Fixing Bad Government with More Government, March 2005. 2 Editorial Board, Cato Journal, February, 2009 – present. Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, May, 2009 – present. Member, Marijuana Prohibition Study Commission, Rhode Island State Senate, 2009. Founder and Editor, Cato Papers on Public Policy, June 2010 – June 2013. First Annual Jeffrey Miron Lecture on Liberty, Libertarianism, from A to Z, Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Romania, March 2011. Guest Lecturer, Market-Based Management Seminar, MIT, 2011. Voting Member, American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, MA, October, 2011 – present. Member, Board of Trustees, American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, MA, October, 2012 – 2014. Grants Exxon Doctoral Research Grant, 1984 University of Michigan Faculty Fund Grant, 1985. Rackham Faculty Grant, University of Michigan, 1985 Rackham Faculty Grant, University of Michigan, 1986 “Weather, Fecundity, and the Seasonality of Births,” National Institute for Child Health and Development, with David Lam, 1986 –87. University of Michigan Faculty Fund Grant, 1987 “The Seasonal Cycle and the Business Cycle,” National Science Foundation, with Robert Barsky, 1987 – 1989. “Influences on Fecundity and the Timing of Births,” National Institute for Child Health and Development, with David Lam, 1988-1990. “Interactions Between Seasonal Cycles and Business Cycles,” National Science Foundation, with Robert Barsky and Jeffrey Mackie-Mason, 1989 – 1991. 3 “Improving the Accessibility of the NBER's Historical Data,” National Science Foundation, with Daniel Feenberg, 1992 – 1995. “Do Prohibitions Raise Prices? Evidence from the Markets for Cocaine and Heroin,” Earhart Foundation, 1999. “The Cost of Enforcing Drug Prohibition,” Open Society Institute, 2000. Positions Held Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan, September, 1984 – August, 1989. Visiting Scholar, National Bureau of Economic Research, January, 1988 – August, 1988. Olin Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, September, 1988 –August, 1989. Associate Professor of Economics, University of Michigan, September, 1989 – June, 1990. Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Boston University, September, 1989 – December, 1989. Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September, 1989 – May, 1990. Professor of Economics, Boston University, September 1990 – June, 2005. Visiting Scholar, Institut d'Economie Industrielle, Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse France, June – December, 1997. Chairman, Department of Economics, Boston University, September, 1992 – August, 1998. Visiting Professor of Economics, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September, 2000 – June, 2001. Visiting Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University, July, 2004 – June, 2007. Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Economics, Harvard University, July, 2007 – present. 4 Director of Economic Studies, Cato Institute, March, 2014 – present. Publications: Papers in Refereed Journals “Financial Panics, the Seasonality of the Nominal Interest Rate, and the Founding of the Fed,” American Economic Review, 76(1), March 1986, 125-40. “The Changing Behavior of the Term Structure of Interest Rates,” with N. Gregory Mankiw, Quarterly Journal of Economics, CI(2), May 1986, 211-28. “Seasonal Fluctuations and the Life Cycle-Permanent Income Model of Consumption,” Journal of Political Economy, 94(6), December 1986, 1258-79. “The Adjustment of Expectations to a Change in Regime: A Study of the Founding of the Federal Reserve,” with N. Gregory Mankiw and David N. Weil, American Economic Review, 77(3), June 1987, 358-74. “The Worldwide Change in the Behavior of Interest Rates and Prices after 1914,” with Robert Barsky, N. Gregory Mankiw, and David N. Weil, European Economic Review, 32(5), June 1988, 1123-46. “Seasonality, Cost Shocks, and the Production Smoothing Model of Inventories,” with Steve Zeldes, Econometrica, 56(4), July 1988, 877-908. “The Seasonal Cycle and the Business Cycle,” with Robert Barsky, Journal of Political Economy, 97(3), June 1989, 503-534. “Seasonal Fluctuations and the Life Cycle -- Permanent Income Model of Consumption: A Correction,” with William English and David Wilcox, Journal of Political Economy, 97(4), August 1989, 988-991. “Production, Inventories, and Sales: An Identity that Doesn't Add Up,” with Steve Zeldes, Journal of Monetary Economics, 24(1), July 1989, 31-51. “Reviving the Federal Statistical System: The View from Academia,” with Christina Romer, American Economic Review, 80(2), May 1990, 329-32 “The Adjustment of Expectations to a Change in Regime: Reply,” with N. Gregory Mankiw and David N. Weil, American Economic Review, 80(4), September 1990, 977-979. “A New Index of Industrial Production, 1884-1940,” with Christina Romer, Journal of Economic History, 50, June 1990, 321-37. 5 “Alcohol Consumption During Prohibition,” with Jeffrey Zwiebel, American Economic Review, 81(2), May 1991, 242-247. “The Role of Economic History in Economic Research: A Review Essay,” Journal of Monetary Economics, 27(2), April 1991, 293-200. “The Seasonal Cycle in United States Manufacturing,” with J. Joseph Beaulieu, Economics Letters, 37(2), 1991, 115-118. “The Seasonality of Births in Human Populations,” with David Lam, Social Biology, 38(1-2), 1991, 51-78. “Why Do Countries and Industries with Large Seasonal Cycles Also Have Large Business Cycles,” with J. Joseph Beaulieu and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Quarterly Journal of Economics, CVII (May 1992), 621-56. “A Cross Country Comparison of Seasonal Cycles and Business Cycles,” with J. Joseph Beaulieu, Economic Journal, 102 (July 1992), 772-788. “Seasonal Unit Roots and Deterministic Seasonals in Aggregate U.S. Data,” with J. Joseph Beaulieu, Journal of Econometrics, 55, March 1993, 305-328. “Modeling Seasonality in Fecundability, Conceptions, and Births,” with David A. Lam and Ann Riley, Demography, 31 (May 1994), 321-346. “Empirical Methodology in Macroeconomics: Explaining the Success of Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States, 1867- 1960,” Journal of Monetary Economics, 34(1) (August 1994), 17-25. “The Founding of the Fed and the Behavior of Interest Rates: What Can be Learned from Small Samples?,” with N. Gregory Mankiw and David N. Weil, Journal of Monetary Economics, 34(3) (December 1994), 555-560. “The Economic Case Against Drug Prohibition,” with Jeffrey Zwiebel Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9(4), Fall 1995, 175-192. “What Have Macroeconomists Learned About Business Cycles from the Study of Seasonal Cycles,” with J. Joseph Beaulieu, Review of Economics and Statistics, 78, February 1996, 54-66. “The Effects of Temperature on Human Fertility,” with David Lam, Demography, 33(3), August 1996, 291-305. “Improving the Accessibility of the NBER's Historical Data,” with Daniel Feenberg, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 15(3), July 1997, 293-99. 6 “An Economic Analysis of Alcohol Prohibition,” Journal of Drug Issues, 28(3) Summer 1998, 741-62. “Violence and the U.S. Prohibitions of Drugs and Alcohol,”