Jay Stewart

Research Fellow

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Jay Stewart is Division Chief of the Division of Productivity Research and Program Development at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). He received his BA in Business Economics from UC Santa Barbara, in 1981, and his PhD in economics from UCLA in 1989. He was previously on the faculty at Tulane University and was an economist at Unicon Research Corporation. His past research has examined contracting under moral hazard and adverse selection, trends in real wages and hours worked, trends in job stability and security, nonworking men, income inequality, and methodological issues connected with data collection. His current research interests are time use, the role of employers in wage determination, and measurement issues.

Dr. Stewart joined IZA as a Research Fellow in his personal capacity in April 2008.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15594
Opening the Black Box: Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion
G.Jacob Blackwood, Cindy Cunningham, Matt Dey, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John C. Haltiwanger, Rachel Nesbit, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Jay Stewart, Cody Tuttle, Zoltan Wolf
forthcoming in: CRIW Conference volume on Technology, Productivity and Economic Growth.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14459
Dispersion in Dispersion: Measuring Establishment-Level Differences In Productivity
Cindy Cunningham, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John C. Haltiwanger, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Jay Stewart, Zoltan Wolf
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69 (4), 999-1032
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12899
Time Spent Exercising and Obesity: An Application of Lewbel's Instrumental Variables Method
Charles Courtemanche, Joshua C. Pinkston, Jay Stewart
published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2021, 41, 100940
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9754
Reconciling the Divergence in Aggregate U.S. Wage Series
Julien Champagne, Andre Kurmann, Jay Stewart
published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 49, 27-41
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9376
Secondary Childcare in the ATUS: What Does It Measure?
Jay Stewart, Mary Dorinda Allard
published in: C. Kalenkoski and G. Foster (eds.): The Economics of Multitasking, New York, 2015, 145-171
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8009
Adjusting Body Mass for Measurement Error with Invalid Validation Data
Charles Courtemanche, Joshua C. Pinkston, Jay Stewart
published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 19, 275–293
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7143
Early to Bed and Earlier to Rise: School, Maternal Employment, and Children's Sleep
Jay Stewart
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (1), 29-50
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7070
Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS
Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Jay Stewart
published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 99-104
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5306
How to Think About Time-Use Data: What Inferences Can We Make About Long- and Short-Run Time Use from Time Diaries?
Harley Frazis, Jay Stewart
published in: Annales d’Economie et Statistique, 2012, 105/106, 231-246
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4704
Why Do BLS Hours Series Tell Different Stories About Trends in Hours Worked?
Harley Frazis, Jay Stewart
published in: Katharine G. Abraham, Michael J. Harper, and James R. Spletzer (eds.), Labor in the New Economy, NBER Studies in Income and Wealth, University of Chicago Press, 2010, 343-372
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