Douglas A. Webber

Research Fellow

Federal Reserve Board of Governors

douglas.a.webber@frb.gov

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Research Interests

Douglas Webber received Bachelors degrees in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Florida in 2007. In August, 2012 he completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Cornell University. Douglas is a labor economist with interests in applied econometrics, the economics of education. He has testified before the U.S. Senate on his research relating to higher education and student loan policy.

Douglas joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2013, and is currently a senior economist in the Consumer and Community Research Section of the Federal Reserve Board.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12464

Government Regulation and Lifecycle Wages: Evidence from Continuing Coverage Mandates

J. Catherine Maclean, Douglas A. Webber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12463

Losing Insurance and Behavioral Health Hospitalizations: Evidence from a Large-Scale Medicaid Disenrollment

J. Catherine Maclean, Sebastian Tello-Trillo, Douglas A. Webber

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 508-527

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11887

Employment Adjustment over the Business Cycle: The Impact of Competition in the Labor Market

Douglas A. Webber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10558

The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data

Christian Neumeier, Todd A. Sorensen, Douglas A. Webber

published as 'The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2018, 84 (3), 716-733

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10078

The Impact of Mass Layoffs on the Educational Investments of Working College Students

Ben Ost, Weixiang Pan, Douglas A. Webber

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 1-12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9799

The Returns to College Persistence for Marginal Students: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from University Dismissal Policies

Ben Ost, Weixiang Pan, Douglas A. Webber

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (3), 779-805

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9292

Health Insurance Benefit Mandates and the Firm-Size Distribution

James Bailey, Douglas A. Webber

published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2018, 85 (2), 577-595