Associate Dean, Academic and Faculty Affairs
and Associate Professor of Economics at Virginia Commonwealth University
Email: cascotese@vcu.edu
"The specifics of non-routine task changes: a granular approach," Contemporary Economic Policy, forthcoming.
"Where have all the (boomer) routine workers gone?" The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, forthcoming
“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 (July 2000) 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.
Labor force participation and task specific human capital