John Kane

Contact Information: Office: 426 Mahar / 123 Penfield Phone: 315-312-2581 Email: kane@oswego.edu

Office Hours: Monday 10:30 - 11:30 (123 Penfield) Tuesday 4:00 - 5:00 pm (123 Penfield) Thursday 10:30 - 11:30 (123 Penfield) (and by appointment)

Fall 2008 semester course pages:

• Eco 101 - Principles of Microeconomics
• Eco 312 - Econometrics

Teaching Interests: Econometrics Labor economics Mathematical economics

Research interests: The economics of education Applied econometrics Limited dependent variable models Economic education

Current projects:

• The impact of large-section instruction and writing requirements in introductory economics classes on student recall of fundamental economic concepts.
• Returns to public investment in elementary and secondary education.
• Differential returns to a private college degree.
• Differential returns to a single-sex college degree.
• Completing revisions on an econometrics text.
• Developing an econometrics resources page.
• Developing a set of web-related resources for economics courses offered in support of the proposed Language and International Trade program.
• Developing web pages to accompany introductory economics texts by Taylor and Boyes & Melvin.
• Developing a series of Online Economic Policy Debates for South-Western College Publishing.

Professional Information

• Professor
• Joined the Oswego faculty in 1983
• Director, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
• Program coordinator, Applied Mathematical Economics Program
• Economics Department Honors Program Advisor
• Advisor to Omicron Delta Epsilon, the international honor society in economics
• Instructor - Talent Identification Program at Duke University since 1987
• Ph.D. - SUNY-Stony Brook
• M.A. - SUNY-Stony Brook
• B.A. - King's College

A few of my favorite links

• Sci.econ.research newsgroup
• Oswego Youth Soccer Association
• U.S. Soccer Federation
• Go to economics department home page

My sons' home pages:

John

Robert

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