Carol A. Scotese

Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Business

Employment

Virginia Commonwealth University, Associate Professor: 2000-present
Virginia Commonwealth University, Faculty Director, Online MBA: Aug 2018 – Dec 2022
Virginia Commonwealth University, Chair, Economics Department: July 2013 – August 2018
Virginia Commonwealth University, Assistant Professor: 1997-2000.
Pennsylvania State University, Visiting Professor: Jan. 1997- June 1997.
Indiana University, School of Business, Assistant Professor: 1991-1997.

Education

Pennsylvania State University
- B.A. in Political Science
- M.A. in Economics
- PhD in Economics

Refereed Publications

“War Mobilization and the Great Compression,” The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy. Volume 10, Issue 1 ISSN

1935- 1682, July 2010.

“Evidence on the Demographic Transition,” Review of Economics and Statistics, November (2009), 871-887.
“Fertility and Government Spending on Education at Different Levels of Development” (2004) in Economic Growth and Human Capital (eds., M. Boldrin and P. Wang) with Theodore Palivos.
“Fertility and Education Premiums,” Journal of Population Economics (2003), 555–578.
“Comparative Advantage, Trade, and Transboundary Pollution” Open Economies Review (July2000) with John W. Maxwell.
“Dynamic Effects of Financial Intermediation over the Business Cycle”, Economic Inquiry 38, (January 2000) 34-57; with Ping Wang.
“Banking on Fewer Children: Financial Intermediation, Fertility and Economic Development,” Journal of Population Economics 12 (December 1999) 567-590.
“Fertility, Growth and the Financing of Public Education and Health”, Journal of Population Economics 9, (November 1996) 415-428; with Theodore Palivos.
“Can Government Enforcement Permanently Alter Fertility?: The Case of China”; Economic Inquiry 33, (October 1995) 552-570; with Ping Wang.
“Fertility Choice and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence”: The Review of Economics and Statistics 76, (May 1994), 255-266; with Ping Wang and Chong Yip.
“Forecast Smoothing and the Optimal Under-utilization of Information at the Federal Reserve”: Journal of Macroeconomics 16, (Fall 1994) 653-670.

Working Papers

“Task Structure Evolution”
“Exiting Routine Work: A Cohort Analysis”

Referee for

Journal of Economic Growth, Economic Journal, Journal of Population Economics, Economic

Inquiry, Demography, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of International Economics and Finance, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Economics of Transition, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Socio-Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics