Duke University
Department of Economics
Box 90097
Durham, NC 27708–0097
Date of Birth: December 15, 1981
Citizenship: United States
Office: (919) 660–8165
Fax: (919) 684–8974
Email: jrb11@duke.edu
Homepage: http://jblevins.org/
B.S. Applied Mathematics, North Carolina State University, 2004.
Minors: Economics and Computer Science.
Honors: Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa.
Advanced study: Budapest Semesters in Mathematics, Fall 2002.
M.A. Economics, Duke University, 2006.
Ph.D. Economics, Duke University, expected 2010.
Industrial Organization, Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics
Mathematics Tutor, Academic Support Program for Student Athletes, Summer 2001.
Research Assistant, Moody Chu and Robert Funderlic, Spring 2003–Spring 2004.
Research Assistant, Jacob Vigdor, Summer 2005–Summer 2006.
Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Microeconomic Analysis, Thomas Nechyba, Fall 2005.
Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Game Theory, Curtis Taylor, Spring 2006.
Research Assistant, Han Hong, Fall 2006–Spring 2007.
Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Econometrics II, Shakeeb Khan, Spring 2007.
Research Assistant, Peter Arcidiacono, Patrick Bayer, and Paul Ellickson, Fall 2007–Present.
Structural Estimation of Sequential Games of Complete Information.
Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for Estimating Dynamic Microeconomic Models.
Learning by doing in DRAM production.
Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models in Continuous Time, with Peter Arcidiacono, Patrick Bayer, and Paul Ellickson.
PDESolutionTester, A Mathematica program for the symbolic verification of exact solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations, with Jeff Heath and Willy Hereman (2002).
DFBR, A Stata program for distribution-free estimation of heteroskedastic binary response models, with Shakeeb Khan (2008).
Updating the Centroid Decomposition with Applications in LSI, with M. T. Chu, D. Cañas, R. E. Funderlic, N. Orlowski, and D. Schlorff (2004).
The Effects of Ties on Convergence in K-Modes Variants for Clustering Categorical Data, with N. Orlowski, D. Schlorff, D. Cañas, M. T. Chu, and R. E. Funderlic (2004).
Vice President, Economics Graduate Student Council, Duke University, 2006–2007.
Vice President, Society of Undergraduate Mathematics, North Carolina State University, 2001–2003.
SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, The College of William & Mary, July 15–19, 2003.
Institute on Computational Economics, Argonne National Laboratory, July 17–21, 2006.
North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, Duke University, June 21–24, 2007.
ERID Conference on Identification, Duke University, October 3–4, 2008.
NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Colorado School of Mines, 2002.
Institute on Computational Economics Fellow, University of Chicago, 2006.
Summer Research Fellowship, Duke University, 2007.
Summer Research Fellowship, Duke University, 2008.
Dean’s List, North Carolina State University, 2000–2004.
Undergraduate Research Award, North Carolina State University, 2004.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Duke University, 2006.
Phi Kappa Phi, 2002.
Pi Mu Epsilon, National Mathematics Honor Society, 2003.
Phi Beta Kappa, Zeta of North Carolina, 2003.
Omicron Delta Epsilon, International Economics Honor Society, 2004.
C, C++, Fortran, Perl, Ruby, Python, Linux, Matlab, Mathematica, R, Stata, SAS, SQL, LaTeX.
Han Hong
Professor of Economics
Stanford University
(650) 725–5702
doubleh@stanford.edu
Shakeeb Khan
Associate Professor of Economics
Duke University
(919) 660–1873
shakeebk@econ.duke.edu
Patrick Bayer
Associate Professor of Economics
Duke University
(919) 660–1832
patrick.bayer@duke.edu
Paul Ellickson
Assistant Professor of Economics
Duke University
(919) 660–1828
paul.ellickson@econ.duke.edu
Andrew Sweeting
Assistant Professor of Economics
Duke University
(919) 660–1883
atsweet@duke.edu