Barton Hamilton

Area of Expertise:

• Entrepreneurship, Statistics/Econometrics, Human Resource Management/Industrial Relations, Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management/Industrial Relations, Statistics/Econometrics

Education

• PhD 1993, Stanford University
• BA 1985, University of California - Berkeley

Research Interests:

• Entrepreneurship, health economics, labor economics, econometrics.

Selected Publications:

• "The Small Firm Effect and the Entrepreneurial Spawning of Scientists and Engineers", Management Science, Issue 4, 659-681, with D. Elfenbein, T. Zenger, 2010
• "The Gender Gap in NIH Grant Applications", Science, 1472-1474, with T. Ley, 2008
• "Learning, Private Information and the Economic Evaluation of Randomized Experiments", Journal of Political Economy, 997-1040, with T. Chan, 2006
• "Correcting for Endogeneity in Strategic Management Research", Strategic Organization Journal, Issue 1, 53-80, with J. Nickerson, 2003
• "Team Incentives & Worker Heterogeneity: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Teams on Productivity & Participation", Journal of Political Economy, 465-497, with J. Nickerson, H. Owan, 2003
• "Does Entrepreneurship Pay? An Empirical Analysis of the Returns to Self-Employment", Journal of Political Economy, 604-631, 2000

Academic/Professional Activities:

• Member, American Economic Association; Econometric Society; American Statistical Association

Awards/Honors:

• Distinguished Faculty Award, Washington University, 2011
• Reid Award for Olin BSBA Teacher of the Year, Washington University, 2008
• Reid Award for Olin MBA Teacher of the Year, Washington University, 1999
• John M. Olin Dissertation Fellowship, Stanford University, 1990