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Faculty

John Heywood

Distinguished Professor, Economics
Director, Master of Human Resources and Labor Relations

Education

PhD, University of Michigan
MA, University of Michigan
BA, Swarthmore College

Teaching Schedule

Course Num	Title	Meets	Syllabus
ECON 450-001	Health Economics	TR 1pm-2:15pm
ECON 450G-001	Health Economics	TR 1pm-2:15pm
ECON 708-001	Industrial Organization I	TR 10am-11:15am

Research Interests

Labor Economics
Industrial Organization
Location Theory
Applied Microeconomics
The determinants and consequences of alternative payment schemes
Models of spatial price discrimination
Strategic delegation

Related Activities

Co-Editor, Education Economics

Selected Publications

Heywood, John S., and Green, Colin. "Performance Pay, Work Hours and Employee Health in the UK," Labour Economics 84. (2023): 1 - 12.

Heywood, John S., Baktash, Mehrzad, and Jirjahn, Uwe. “Worker Stress and Performance Pay: German Survey Evidence” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 201. (2022): 276 - 291.

Heywood, John S., Artz, Benjamin, and Green, Colin. “Does Performance Pay Increase Alcohol and Drug Use?” Journal of Population Economics 34. (2021): 969 - 1002.

Heywood, John S., Ye, Guanglinag, and Wang, Shiqiang. “Resale Price Maintenance and Spatial Price Discrimination” International Journal of Industrial Organization 57. (2018): 147 - 174.

Bilanakos, Christos, Green, Colin P., Heywood, John S., and Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos. “Do Dominant Firms Provide More Training?” Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 26.1 (2017): 67 - 95.

Heywood, John S., Green, Colin P., and Navarro, Maria. “Traffic Accidents and the London Congestion Charge” Journal of Public Economics 133. (2016): 11 - 22.

Green, Colin P., Heywood, John S., and Navarro, Maria. “Did Liberalizing Bar Hours Decrease Traffic Accidents?” Journal of Health Economics 35.2 (2014): 189 - 198.

Heywood, John S., and Parent, D.. “Performance Pay and the Black-White Wage Gap” Journal of Labor Economics 30.2 (2012): 249 - 90.