CPWR — The Center for Construction Research and Training: CERN: Construction Economics Research Network
  The Construction Economics Research Network (CERN) draws together leading economists and social scientists engaged in research related to the construction industry. Bi-annual meetings provide a forum for presentation of ongoing construction research and direct collaboration. The construction industry provides several challenges for economic and sociological research including mobile and transient work sites; small contracting companies; intermittent employment and high levels of self-employment; complex contracting relationships and organization of work; and limited national data on productivity. Improved knowledge of labor and institutional economics are critical if we are to better understand what motivates change.  

Click Here for Proceedings from our December 2007 Meeting

Chair:
David Weil, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics and

Everett W. Lord Distringuished Faculty Scholar
Boston University School of Management
595 Commonwealth Avenue Room 520A
Boston, MA
Email: David_Weil@ksg.harvard.edu

Coordinator:
Dale Belman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Labor and Industrial Relations
Michigan State University
East Lansing , MI
Email: drdale@msu.edu

Participants:

Hamid Azari-Rad, Ph.D.

Associate Professor & Chair

Department of Economics
State University of New York at New Paltz
New Paltz , NY

 
James Beavers, Ph.D.
Construction Industry Research and Policy Center
College of Business
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
 

Peter Berg

School of Labor and Industrial Relations

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

 
Elyce A. Biddle, Ph.D.
Economist
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Morgantown, WV
 
Cihan Bilginsoy, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
 

Matthew M. Bodah, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Coordinator
University of Rhode Island
Kingston , RI

 
Francoise Carre, Ph.D.
Research Director, Center for Social Policy
Graduate School of Policy Studies
University of Massachusetts Boston
Fellow, Center for Women and Work, Rutgers University
 
Sue Dong, MS
Director, Data Center
Center CPWR — The Center for Construction Research and Training
Silver Spring, MD
 
Fred Feinstein, JD
Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow
School of Public Affairs
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
 

Maria Figueroa

Director, Labor and Industry Research

Cornell University - ILR Extension Office

New York, NY

 

Robert Gasperow

Construction Labor Research Council

Washington, DC

 

Robert Glover, Ph.D.
The Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources
LBJ School of Public Affairs
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

 

Paul Goodrum, P.E., Ph.D.

Department of Civil Engineering

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY

 
Jeffrey Grabelsky, MA, MS
Director, Construction Industry Program
Cornell University
School of Industrial and Labor Relations
New York, NY
 
Lonnie M. Golden, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Penn State University, Delaware
Media, PA
 
Steve Herzenberg
Keystone Research Center
Harrisburg, PA
 

Morris M. Kleiner

Director, Institute for Public Affairs
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

 
Mark Price, Ph.D.
Keystone Research Center
Harrisburg, PA
 
Bruce Nissen, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Labor Research & Studies
Florida International University
Miami, FL
 

Kristen Paap
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Work and Women

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

New Brunswick, NJ

 
Peter Philips, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Economics
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
 
James Platner, Ph.D.
Director of Science & Technology
Center CPWR — The Center for Construction Research and Training
Silver Spring, MD
 
Mark Prus, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Economics
SUNY, Cortland
Cortland, NY
 
Karen Roberts, Ph.D.
School of Labor and Industrial Relations
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
 
Ruth Ruttenberg, Ph.D.
Professor
National Labor College
Silver Spring, MD
 
Allen Smith, Ph.D.
Building and Construction Trades Department
Washington, D.C.
 

John Spavins

Director of Industry Affairs

City of New York Department of Design and Construction

Long Island City, NY

 
Paula Voos, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor, Labor Program
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
 
Jeffrey Waddoups, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV
 
Norman Waitzman, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
University of Utah
Department of Economics
Salt Lake City, UT
 
Marc Weinstein, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Management
Lundquist College of Business
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR

 

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