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James P. Vere was an undergraduate at Duke University and obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University under Christina Paxson and Anne Case. During that time, he was also Visiting Associate at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, and a Fellow in Applied Economics at the Social Sciences Research Council.

Dr. Vere's research interests are in development, labor economics and demography. He has done extensive research on labor markets in Taiwan, particularly the effects of structural change brought about by economic development on the wage structure. He has also studied the contribution of changes in occupational composition in Taiwan to increases in the female labor force participation rate.

Dr. Vere's current research interests are on the labor market effects of demographic change and economic development. On a macro level, these include the effects of immigration flows and human capital accumulation on national income. On a micro level, these include studying the decisions of economic agents in a development context, for example fertility or choice of educational attainment.

Dr. Vere currently teaches econometrics at the graduate and undergraduate level and economic development at the undergraduate level.

• "The Perils of Father-Reported Fertility Data for Household Labour Supply Models,"
  Population Studies, 62(2), July 2008, pp.235-243.
• "Dragon Children: Identifying the Causal Effect of the First Child on Female Labor Supply with the Chinese Lunar Calendar,"
  Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 70(3), June 2008, pp.303-325.
• "`Having it All’ No Longer: Fertility, Female Labor Supply, and the New Life Choices of Generation X,"
  Demography, 44(4), November 2007, pp.821-828.
• "Wage Structure Effects of Taiwan’s Science and Technology Development Policy,"
  Asian Economic Journal, 19(2), June 2005, pp.159-180.
• "Education, Development and Wage Inequality: The Case of Taiwan,"
  Economic Development and Cultural Change, 53(3), April 2005, pp.711-735.