Mo-Yin Tam
Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1974
Phone: (312) 413-9448 Fax: (312) 996-3344
E-Mail:moyintam@uic.edu
Homepage:http://www.uic.edu/~moyintam/
Fields of Interest : Diversity, Economics of Education, Digital Divide, Incentive Schemes and Pareto Optimality, Income Distribution and Welfare Implications
Selected Research :
"The Gender gap in Information Technology" (with Gilbert W. Bassett Jr.) in Women in STEM, (edited by Jill M. Bystyzienski and Sharon R.Bird), forthcoming, 2004.
"Quantile Models and Estimators for Data Analysis" (with Gilbert W. Bassett Jr. and Keith Knight) Metrika, International Journal for Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Volume 55, 2002, 17-26.
"Ranking Income Distributions - Tradeoff Between Efficiency and Equity," (with R. Zhang), Economica, 1996, 239-252.
"Reward Structures in a Planned Economy: Some Future Thoughts," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1985, 279-289.
"Regional Convergence and National Inequality" (with J. Persky), Review of Economics and Statistics, 1982, 161-164.
"Reward Structures in a Planned Economy: The Problems of Incentives and Allocations of Resources," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1981, 111-128.
Current Research Interests:
Diversity and Student Performance
Digital Divide, IT Workforce and High School Quality
University Admission: Selection Index and High School Quality
Other Significant Accomplishments :
NSF award "POWRE, Digital Divide, IT Workforce and High School Quality" from the Division of Research, Evaluation and Communication, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, September 1, 2000 to November 30, 2002.
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