Ronald G. Ehrenberg, the Irving M. Ives Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Labor Relations, served as a Cornell vice president and university Board of Trustees member, as well as a State University of New York Board of Trustees member.
Here, he recounts some of his experiences:
What was your most impactful research?
My books that have had the greatest impact are “Modern Labor Economics” and “Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much.” The first, coauthored with Bob Smith, is now in its 14th edition and has been used by thousands of students around the world. It was written specifically for our ILR students.
To be honest, the last edition I worked on was the fifth edition because when I became a Cornell vice president in the mid-90s, my interests began to shift toward higher education from labor economics. Bob has steadfastly refused to take my name off the book.
“Tuition Rising,” which was written after my terms as a Cornell vice president, was published in 2000 and marks the date my focus became solely on higher education issues.
My two most important papers were “Household Allocation of Time and Church Attendance,” which was published in the Journal of Political Economy in 1975, and “Do Tournaments Have Incentive Effects?” published in the Journal of Political Economy in 1990.
The first paper was the first that analyzed the economics of religion since Adam Smith's work back in the 18th century and it led to a growing subfield of research on the economics of religion....
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