Contact Details and CV
John M. Parman
Department of Economics
College of William & Mary
P.O. Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
jmparman@wm.edu
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Courses
I teach courses on American economic history, world economic history, government regulation of markets and microeconomic theory. Current students of any courses can access course materials including problem sets, lecture slides and exam solutions by going to the Blackboard page for each course. For examples of past problem sets, exams, homework projects and lecture slides, please follow the link below:
Research
My research focuses on using historical data sources to explore the relationships between health, family structure, community characteristics and educational and occupational outcomes. My focus is primarily on the United States at the turn of the century. Current projects include investigating how health shocks lead families to redistribute resources among children, how historical segregation influenced racial gaps in health and socioeconomic status, and how intergenerational mobility has evolved over the past century. For abstracts, papers and presentation slides, please follow the link below:
Data and Code
Most of my research projects have required the construction of new data sets. Several of these data sets have been cleaned and documented such that they may be useful to other researchers. These data sets as well as other potentially useful files (scripts, maps, documentation, etc.) are available on the following page: