Barton Hamilton

Robert Brookings Smith Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at Olin Business School

Schools

  • Olin Business School

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Biography

Olin Business School

Area of Expertise:

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

Education

  • PhD 1993, Stanford University
  • BA 1985, University of California - Berkeley

Research Interests:

  • Entrepreneurship, health economics, labor economics, econometrics.

Selected Publications:

  • "The Small Firm Effect and the Entrepreneurial Spawning of Scientists and Engineers", Management Science, Issue 4, 659-681, with D. Elfenbein, T. 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 T. Chan, 2006
  • "Correcting for Endogeneity in Strategic Management Research", Strategic Organization Journal, Issue 1, 53-80, with J. Nickerson, 2003
  • "Team Incentives & Worker Heterogeneity: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Teams on Productivity & Participation", Journal of Political Economy, 465-497, with J. Nickerson, H. Owan, 2003
  • "Does Entrepreneurship Pay? An Empirical Analysis of the Returns to Self-Employment", Journal of Political Economy, 604-631, 2000

Academic/Professional Activities:

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

Awards/Honors:

  • 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

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