Peter Mueser

Peter Mueser
Professor Emeritus and Research Fellow
E207 Locust Street Building
573-882-6427
Research Focus
Applied Microeconomics, Labor
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M. Michaelides and P. Mueser, “The Employment and Displacement Effects of Job Counselling: Evidence from the U.S. Unemployment Insurance System,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review (forthcoming). 

C. Jepsen, P. Mueser, K. Troske, and K. Jeon, “Estimates of Earnings Returns By Field of Study for For-Profit Schools and Community Colleges,” Economics of Education Review (vol. 107, August 2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2025.102675

C. Jepsen, P. Mueser, K. Troske, and K. Jeon, “The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College: Labor-Market Returns to For-Profit Schooling and Community Colleges.” Journal of Human Resources (forthcoming). Prepublication (March 7, 2025): http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/recent

Do Reemployment Programs for The Unemployed Work for Youth? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States (with M. Michaelides and J. A. Smith), Economic Inquiry, 2021

Food Stamps and the Working Poor (with D. C. Ribar and E. Tekin), W. E. Upjohn Institute, 2019

Second Chance for High School Dropouts?  A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Postsecondary Educational Returns to the GED (with C. Jepsen and K. Troske), Journal of Labor Economics, 2017

Labor-Market Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis (with C. Jepsen and K. Troske), Journal of Political Economy, 2016

Using State Administrative Data to Measure Program Performance (with K. Troske and A. Gorislavsky), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007

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