Jay Stewart

Research Fellow

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

stewart.jay@bls.gov

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Jay Stewart is Division Chief of the Division of Productivity Research and Program Development at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). He received his BA in Business Economics from UC Santa Barbara, in 1981, and his PhD in economics from UCLA in 1989. He was previously on the faculty at Tulane University and was an economist at Unicon Research Corporation. His past research has examined contracting under moral hazard and adverse selection, trends in real wages and hours worked, trends in job stability and security, nonworking men, income inequality, and methodological issues connected with data collection. His current research interests are time use, the role of employers in wage determination, and measurement issues.

Dr. Stewart joined IZA as a Research Fellow in his personal capacity in April 2008.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14459

Dispersion in Dispersion: Measuring Establishment-Level Differences In Productivity

Cindy Cunningham, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John C. Haltiwanger, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Jay Stewart, Zoltan Wolf

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12899

Time Spent Exercising and Obesity: An Application of Lewbel's Instrumental Variables Method

Charles Courtemanche, Joshua C. Pinkston, Jay Stewart

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9754

Reconciling the Divergence in Aggregate U.S. Wage Series

Julien Champagne, Andre Kurmann, Jay Stewart

(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 49, 27-41)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9376

Secondary Childcare in the ATUS: What Does It Measure?

Jay Stewart, Mary Dorinda Allard

published in: C. Kalenkoski and G. Foster (eds.): The Economics of Multitasking, New York, 2015, 145-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8009

Adjusting Body Mass for Measurement Error with Invalid Validation Data

Charles Courtemanche, Joshua C. Pinkston, Jay Stewart

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 19, 275–293

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7143

Early to Bed and Earlier to Rise: School, Maternal Employment, and Children's Sleep

Jay Stewart

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (1), 29-50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7070

Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS

Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Jay Stewart

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 99-104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5306

How to Think About Time-Use Data: What Inferences Can We Make About Long- and Short-Run Time Use from Time Diaries?

Harley Frazis, Jay Stewart

published in: Annales d’Economie et Statistique, 2012, 105/106, 231-246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4704

Why Do BLS Hours Series Tell Different Stories About Trends in Hours Worked?

Harley Frazis, Jay Stewart

published in: Katharine G. Abraham, Michael J. Harper, and James R. Spletzer (eds.), Labor in the New Economy, NBER Studies in Income and Wealth, University of Chicago Press, 2010, 343-372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4588

Tobit or Not Tobit?

Jay Stewart

published in: Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2013, 38(3), 263-290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4219

The Timing of Maternal Work and Time with Children

Jay Stewart

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 64(1), 181-200

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4048

How Does Household Production Affect Measured Income Inequality?

Harley Frazis, Jay Stewart

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (1), 3-22