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Professor

Economics & Business

Esther Redmount received her B.A. in Economics from the College of William and Mary. She completed her Ph.D. also in Economics at the University of Virginia.  After completing her degree, she was a post-doc courtesy of the Lady Davis Fellowship Trust in Agricultural Economics at the Hebrew University’s Faculty of Agriculture in Rehovot, Israel. Her research focused on the impact of organizational design on worker and firm productivity with special attention to collective and cooperative farms. During a short stint at Gan Shmuel, she served in the Dairy and was taught how to milk a cow by hand.

Esther continues to be interested in how organizational forms and worker productivities interact.  She studies how families make economic decisions for their members and with what consequences for individual and group well-being, Her current research examines historical instances of signaling and screening in labor markets that improve the quality of the match between job seekers and potential employers.  Esther is a serious bridge player and a great admirer of cats.  She travels as widely and as adventurously as time, money and stamina allow.

Esther's Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Regular Classes

• EC 151 - Principles of Microeconomics
• EC 200 - Methods I: Statistics
• EC 207 - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
• EC 336 - Economics of Labor
• EC 392 - Game Theory
• EC 499 - Senior Thesis