Jason Blevins

Education

• Ph.D. Economics, Duke University, 2009 (Expected).
• M.A. Economics, Duke University, 2006.
• B.S. Applied Mathematics, North Carolina State University, 2004, Summa Cum Laude.
• Budapest Semesters in Mathematics, Fall 2002.

Research Experience

• Research Assistant, Pat Bayer and Paul Ellickson, Duke University, 2007–2008

  Estimation of dynamic discrete choice models and dynamic games in continuous time.

• Research Assistant, Han Hong, Duke University, 2006–2007

  Estimation and identification of sequential games of complete information.

• Research Assistant, Jacob Vigdor, Duke University, 2005–2006

  Empirical analysis of the effects of community homogeneity on voting behavior due to individual perceptions of relative economic well-being (See NBER Working Paper 12371, July 2006).

• Research Assistant, Moody Chu and Robert Funderlic, NC State University, 2003–2004.

  Investigation of data mining and clustering methods and their applications. Development of updating methods for the centroid decomposition.

• Research Assistant, Willy Hereman, Colorado School of Mines, 2002

  Development of a symbolic software package to compute exact hyperbolic and elliptical solutions to systems of nonlinear partial differential equations.

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant, Econometrics II (Ph.D.), Duke University, Spring 2007
• Instructor, Microeconomics Qualifier Camp, Summer 2006
• Teaching Assistant, Game Theory (Ph.D.), Duke University, Spring 2006
• Teaching Assistant, Microeconomic Analysis (Ph.D.), Duke University, Fall 2005
• Mathematics Tutor, North Carolina State University, 2001

Working Papers

• “Learning by doing in DRAM production” (2007).

• “Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for Estimating Dynamic Discrete Choice Models” (2007).

• “Structural Estimation of Sequential Games of Complete Information” (2006).

• “Updating the Centroid Decomposition with Applications in LSI,” with M.T. Chu, D. Cañas, R.E. Funderlic, N. Orlowski, and D. Schlorff (2004).

• “The Effects of Ties on Convergence in K-Modes Variants for Clustering Categorical Data,” with N. Orlowski, D. Schlorff, D. Cañas, M.T. Chu, and R.E. Funderlic (2004).

Software

• Blevins, J., J. Heath, and W. Hereman (2002): PDESolutionTester, A Mathematica program for the symbolic verification of exact solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations.

Service

• Vice President, Economics Graduate Student Council, Duke University, 2006–2007
• Vice President, Society of Undergraduate Mathematics, North Carolina State University, 2001–2003

Honors and Awards

• Summer Research Fellowship, Duke University, 2007
• Institute on Computational Economics Fellow, University of Chicago, 2006
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Duke University, 2006
• Undergraduate Research Award, North Carolina State University, 2004
• Phi Beta Kappa, 2003

Computer Skills

• Expert: C++, Fortran, Stata, Perl, LaTeX, Linux
• Intermediate: Matlab, SQL, Ruby, SAS, Mathematica
• Basic: Assembly, Java