Rate My Professor Kevin Staub

Kevin Staub is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Business and Economics, a position he has held since 2022, following his role as Senior Lecturer there from 2013 to 2021. He previously served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Zurich from 2012 to 2013 and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University from 2011 to 2012. Staub earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Zurich in May 2011, with a dissertation entitled Essays in Microeconometrics, and his MA in Economics from the same university in April 2007, with a thesis on Alternative estimators for the ordered probit model. His research focuses on applied econometrics, particularly methods for discrete and limited dependent variables and panel data models, with applications in health econometrics and the econometrics of international trade. Staub is a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn since 2014.

Staub's scholarly contributions have earned him notable recognition, including the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award for 2017–2019, the University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grant in 2016, Dean’s Certificate for Excellence in Research in 2015, and a Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship for Prospective Researchers from 2011 to 2012. He was also selected as a Fellow for the 4th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Economic Sciences in 2011. Among his key publications are “Assessing the Quality of Public Services: Does Hospital Competition Crowd-out the For-profit Quality Gap?” with Johannes S. Kunz, Carol Propper, and Rainer Winkelmann in Health Economics (2024); “Predicting individual effects in fixed effects panel probit models” with Kunz and Winkelmann in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (2021); “Consistent estimation of the fixed effects ordered logit model” with Gregori Baetschmann and Winkelmann in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (2015); “GLM estimation of trade gravity models with fixed effects” with Peter H. Egger in Empirical Economics (2016); and “The trade effects of endogenous preferential trade agreements” with Egger, Mario Larch, and Winkelmann in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2011). Staub teaches courses such as Advanced Econometric Techniques 2 and Econometrics 2 at the University of Melbourne and supervises master's, honours, and PhD students. He co-authored the Stata command feologit for estimating fixed-effects ordered logit models, published in The Stata Journal (2020).