William Bentley MacLeod (born 1954) is a

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economist. He is Lecturer with Rank of Professor and Research Scholar at Princeton University, and the Sami Mnaymneh Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs Emeritus at Columbia University. He is a specialist in the fields of labor economics and health economics, and law and economics.

Education

MacLeod received a B.A. with distinction in

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from

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in 1975 and an

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in Mathematics from Queen's University in 1979. He completed his economics doctorate at the University of British Columbia in 1984.

Academic career

He began his teaching career at Queen's University, then he taught at Université de Montréal, Boston College, University of Southern California, California Institute of Technology and Princeton University, before coming to Columbia University. He has also held one year visiting positions at

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(Belgium), Instituto de Análisis Económico (Barcelona)
Princeton University
the

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and the Institute for Advanced Study. He was elected fellow of the Econometric Society in 2005, and fellow of the Society of Labor Economists in 2012. He is also the recipient of the 2002 H. Gregg Lewis prize awarded by the Society of Labor Economists for his article "Worker Cooperation and the Ratchet" with H. Lorne Carmichael. He is a Past President of th
Society of Institutional and Organizational Economics
in 2017-18, and th

in 2021.

Notable publications

* "Advanced microeconomics for contract, institutional, and organizational economics", MIT Press

* "Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment" by MacLeod and James M. Malcomson, Malcomson *MacLeod, W. Bentley, and

James M. Malcomson James Malcomson is a British-Irish economist. He is emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and emeritus Fellow of All Souls College. He is a specialist in the fields of labour economics and contract theory. Education Foll ...

. "Investments, Holdup, and the Form of Market Contracts." ''The American Economic Review'' 83, no. 4 (1993): 811-37, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2117580 *MacLeod, W. Bentley. "Reputations, Relationships, and Contract Enforcement." ''Journal of Economic Literature'' 45, no. 3 (2007): 595-628
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* "First Do No Harm? Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes" mentioned in Tort Reform. * "Optimal Contracting with Subjective Evaluation," American Economic Review: Vol. 93 No. 1 (March 2003). * "Performance Pay and Wage Inequality", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, Vol. 124, Issue 1 (joint with T. Lemieux and D. Parent) * "Administrative Corruption and Taxation", by Frank Flatters and W. Bentley Macleod. Reprinted in "The Economics Of Corruption And Illegal Markets".

Personal life

MacLeod is married to

Janet Currie Janet Currie is a Canadian-American economist and the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, where she is Co-Director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing. Sh ...

, an economist at Princeton University. They have two children.

References

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