Larry D. Singell
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Biography
- Not to be confused with Larry D. Singell Jr.
Larry D. Singell (Sr.) (born 1937) is an American economist, and Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is known for his work in applied economics, for example on the effects of green belts on residential property, or on the National Maximum Speed Law.
Biography
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Singell obtained his in Economics from Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts, near Boston in 1960. He then proceeded his studies in Economics at the Wayne State University in Detroit, where he obtained his MA in 1962 and his PhD in 1965.
Singell had stated his academic career at Wayne State University. After his graduation Singell was faculty member at the Bowling Green State University for some years. In the 1970s he was appointed Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he served until his retirement in 2002. Afterwards he was appointed Emeritus Professor of Economics, Furthermore he had been visiting professor at Universities in Colorado, Nevada, Pittsburgh, Virginia, Melbourne, Australia and Glasgow, Scotland.
At the University of Colorado, Boulder Singell also served as head of the Economy Department since the 1970s, as Dean of the College of Business and Administration, and as Faculty Ombudsman since 2008. Singell has been awarded several awards at the University of Colorado, such as the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Student Alumni Association, the Stanford Calderwood Teaching Excellence Award, the Robert L. Stearns Award and the Distinguished Business Service Award, College of Business.
Singell's son Larry D. Singell Jr. has followed into his footsteps and is Professor of Economics at the Indiana University, and since 2011 executive dean of the its College of Arts and Sciences.
Selected publications
- Kenneth E. Boulding & Fred R. Glahe, L. D. Singell (edi.), Collected Papers: International systems: peace, conflict resolution, and politics. Colorado Associated University Press, 1975.
- Kenneth E. Boulding (Author), Larry D. Singell (Editor). Collected Papers: Toward the Twenty-First Century : Political Economy, Social Systems, and World Peace. July, 1985.
- Correll, Mark R., Jane H. Lillydahl, and Larry D. Singell. "The effects of greenbelts on residential property values: some findings on the political economy of open space." Land economics 54.2 (1978): 207-217.
- Singell, Larry D., and Jane H. Lillydahl. "An empirical analysis of the commute to work patterns of males and females in two-earner households." Urban Studies 23.2 (1986): 119-129.
- LeRoy, Stephen F., and Larry D. Singell Jr. "Knight on risk and uncertainty." Journal of political economy 95.2 (1987): 394-406.
- Singell, Larry D., and Jane H. Lillydahl. "An empirical examination of the effect of impact fees on the housing market." Land Economics 66.1 (1990): 82-92.
- McDowell, John M., Larry D. Singell Jr, and James P. Ziliak. "Cracks in the glass ceiling: gender and promotion in the economics profession." American Economic Review (1999): 392-396.
- Singell, Larry D. "Come and stay a while: does financial aid effect retention conditioned on enrollment at a large public university?." Economics of Education review 23.5 (2004): 459-471.