About

Timothy N. Bond is a professor whose research encompasses a broad range of topics in economics, with a particular focus on labor economics, education, racial disparities, and human capital decisions. His work investigates critical social and economic issues such as racial progress, immigration, education gaps, and the effects of social policies on economic outcomes. Bond's research often employs rigorous econometric methods to analyze large administrative and survey data sets, providing empirical evidence on topics like the evolution of test score gaps, the impact of teacher performance pay programs, and the role of statistical discrimination in college major selection. His studies contribute to understanding how economic incentives and social norms influence individual and group behavior in labor markets and educational settings. Bond has also explored the dynamics of internal labor markets, prejudice and racial matches in employment, and the effects of social policies such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on educational attainment and college attendance. His ongoing work includes modeling household labor supply decisions in the context of childcare responsibilities and examining the long-term outcomes of exposure to teacher pay-for-performance programs. Overall, Bond's research provides valuable insights into the mechanisms driving economic disparities and the effectiveness of policy interventions aimed at improving social and economic outcomes.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Physics
• Optics
• Medicine
• Accounting
• Psychology
• Demographic economics
• Astronomy
• Mathematics education
• Economic growth
• Medical education
• Business
• Economics

Selected publications

• Semiparametric Bayesian estimation in an ordinal probit model with application to life satisfaction across countries, age and gender

  Journal of Econometrics · 2025-02-01 · 1 citations

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• Voluntary retirement savings in China: A spatial ordered probit approach

  Regional Science and Urban Economics · 2025-02-03

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• Semiparametric Bayesian Estimation in an Ordinal Probit Model with Application to Life Satisfaction Across Countries, Age and Gender

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 2 citations

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• Statistical Discrimination and Optimal Mismatch in College Major Selection

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 2 citations

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• Moving Beyond Nutrients-Tea Flavonoids and Human Health is it Time to Consider Food-Based Bioactive Guidelines?

  Nutrition and Food Technology Open Access · 2024-01-01

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  Flavonoids are a diverse group of natural compounds with flavan-3-ols being a predominant subgroup within these. Tea is one of the best sources of flavonoids and flavan-3-ols including the arubigins. Whilst flavonoids are not regarded as ‘essential’ to human health their bioactive properties influence health. Given this, there has been growing interest in the movement towards the development of dietary recommendations for bioactive compounds such as flavonoids in tea made from the leaves of Camellia sinens. In the United States the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in 2022 convened an expert scientific panel concluding that we should be moving towards a food-based dietary recommendation for flavan-3-ols, with 400- 600 mg/d appearing to confer cardiometabolic protection. Intakes from dietary surveys indicate that habitual intakes of flavanol-3-ols are variable, ranging from 33 mg/d (non-tea drinkers) to 698 mg/d (tea drinkers) and depend on the inclusion of dietary sources providing these such as tea and citrus fruits. Given this, the inclusion of such dietary sources may help to plug gaps between habitual intakes and these benchmarks thought to offer cardiometabolic protection. Ongoing research, uniformity of sub-classes of flavonoids measured and use of biomarkers will aid future movements towards food-based guidelines for bioactives.

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• Stalled Racial Progress and Japanese Trade in the 1970s and 1980s

  The Review of Economic Studies · 2023-01-31 · 11 citations

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  Abstract We assess the impact of a rapid rise in Japanese import competition on the growth in racial earnings and employment gaps during the 1970s and 80s. Using commuting zone level variation in exposure, we find Japanese competition led to a decrease in manufacturing employment and labour force participation for blacks. This was driven by a shift in demand for skill in manufacturing. The difference in effects between the 10th percentile most and least exposed commuting zone was equivalent to 36–46% of the relative rise in black non-labour force participation, and 78–96% of the relative decline in black median male earnings.

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• Immigration and Work Schedules: Theory and Evidence

  European Economic Review · 2022-01-01

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  We develop a theoretical framework to analyze the effects of immigration on native job amenities, focusing on work schedules. Immigrants have a comparative advantage in production at, and lower disamenity cost for nighttime work, which leads them to disproportionately choose nighttime employment. Because day and night tasks are imperfect substitutes, the relative price of day tasks increases as their supply becomes relatively more scarce. We provide empirical support for our theory. Native workers in local labor markets that experienced higher rates of immigration are more likely to work day shifts and receive a lower compensating differential for nighttime work.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may download this paper without additional charge at www.nber.org.

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• Replication Package for: "Stalled Racial Progress and Japanese Trade in the 1970s and 1980s"

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2022-11-11

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  Batistich, Mary Kate and Timothy N. Bond. forthcoming. "Stalled Racial Progress and Japanese Trade in the 1970s and 1980s." <em>Review of Economic Studies</em> These files contain the data and code to replicate the main results and online appendix for<br> "Stalled Racial Progress and Japanese Trade in the 1970s and 1980s" by Mary Kate Batistich and Timothy N. Bond.

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• Hungry for Success? SNAP Timing, High-Stakes Exam Performance, and College Attendance

  American Economic Journal Economic Policy · 2022 · 11 citations

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  • Computer Science
  • Mathematics education
  • Medical education

  Monthly government transfer programs create cycles of consumption that track the timing of benefit receipt. If these cycles correspond to critical moments for student learning and achievement, the timing of transfers may have important long-run implications for low-income students. In this paper we exploit state-level variation in the staggered timing of nutritional assistance benefit issuance to analyze effects on academic achievement. Using individual-level data from a large national college admission exam, we find taking this high-stakes exam during the last two weeks of the SNAP benefit cycle reduces test scores and lowers the probability of attending a four-year college. (JEL H75, I18, I21, I23, I38)

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• Immigration and Work Schedules: Theory and Evidence

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2022-12-01 · 2 citations

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  We develop a theoretical framework to analyze the effects of immigration on native job amenities, focusing on work schedules. Immigrants have a comparative advantage in production at, and lower disamenity cost for nighttime work, which leads them to disproportionately choose nighttime employment. Because day and night tasks are imperfect substitutes, the relative price of day tasks increases as their supply becomes relatively more scarce. We provide empirical support for our theory. Native workers in local labor markets that experienced higher rates of immigration are more likely to work day shifts and receive a lower compensating differential for nighttime work.

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Frequent coauthors

• Kevin Lang

  38 shared

• Jakub Lonsky

  University of Edinburgh

  20 shared

• Osea Giuntella

  20 shared

• Kevin J. Mumford

  7 shared

• Jonathan Smith

  7 shared

• Mary Kate Batistich

  6 shared

• Xiaoxiao Li

  Nankai University

  5 shared

• George Bulman

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  5 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Economics

  Boston University

  2012