Barton Hamilton

Barton Hamilton

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Before joining Olin, Professor Hamilton was an Assistant Professor of Economics at McGill University for five years.

Area of Expertise

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Entrepreneurship, Statistics/Econometrics, Human Resource Management/Industrial Relations, Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management/Industrial Relations, Statistics/Econometrics

Education

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• Ph D 1993, Stanford University
• BA 1985, University of California - Berkeley

Academic/Professional Activities

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Member, American Economic Association; Econometric Society; American Statistical Association

Awards/Honors

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• Distinguished Faculty Award, Washington University, 2011
• Reid Award for Olin BSBA Teacher of the Year, Washington University, 2008
• Reid Award for Olin MBA Teacher of the Year, Washington University, 1999
• John M. Olin Dissertation Fellowship, Stanford University, 1990

Teaching Interests

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Economics - Econometrics; Economics - Health Economics; Economics - Microeconomics/ Industrial Organization; Entrepreneurism; Human Resource Management/Industrial Relations; Statistics/Econometrics

Research Interests

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Entrepreneurship, health economics, labor economics, econometrics.

Personal Interests

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Professor Hamilton enjoys reptile keeping and breeding, dogs, hiking, reading, and professional football.

Selected Publications

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• "The Small Firm Effect and the Entrepreneurial Spawning of Scientists and Engineers", Management Science, Issue 4, 659-681, with Daniel Elfenbein, Todd Zenger, 2010
• "Using Alzheimer's Disease Blood Tests to Accelerate Clinical Trial Enrollment", Alzheimer's & Dementia, 1-9, with Mahendra Gupta, Randall Bateman, Suzanne Schindler, Liberty Vittert, John Morris, Kyle Womack
• "The Small Firm Effect and the Entrepreneurial Spawning of Scientists and Engineers", Management Science, Issue 4, 659-681, with Daniel Elfenbein, Todd Zenger, 2010
• "The Gender Gap in NIH Grant Applications", Science, 1472-1474, with T Ley, 2008
• "Learning, Private Information and the Economic Evaluation of Randomized Experiments", Journal of Political Economy, 997-1040, with Tat Chan, 2006
• "Correcting for Endogeneity in Strategic Management Research", Strategic Organization Journal, Issue 1, 53-80, with Jackson Nickerson, 2003
• "Team Incentives & Worker Heterogeneity: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Teams on Productivity & Participation", Journal of Political Economy, 465-497, with Jackson Nickerson, H Owan, 2003
• "Does Entrepreneurship Pay? An Empirical Analysis of the Returns to Self-Employment", Journal of Political Economy, 604-631, 2000