Jonathan Pritchett

Education

Ph.D. University of Chicago
- Economics, 1986

Professional Experience

Tulane University, Department of Economics, Associate Professor

Research interests

U.S. economic history

Selected Publications

• Jonathan B. Pritchett and Myeong-Su Yun, “The In-hospital Mortality Rates of Slaves and Freemen: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855-1860,” Explorations in Economic History 46 (April 2009), pp. 241-252. [pdf].
• Kevin Lander and Jonathan Pritchett, “When to Care: The Economic Rationale of Slavery Health Care Provision,” Social Science History 33 (Summer 2009), pp. 155-182.[pdf].
• Jonathan B. Pritchett, “Quantitative Estimates of the United States Interregional Slave Trade, 1820-1860,” Journal of Economic History 61 (June 2001), pp. 467-475. [pdf].
• Jonathan B. Pritchett, “The Interregional Slave Trade and the Selection of Slaves for the New Orleans Market,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 28 (Summer, 1997), pp. 57-85. [pdf].
• Insan Tunali and Jonathan B. Pritchett, “Cox Regression with Alternative Concepts of Waiting Time: The New Orleans Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853,” Journal of Applied Econometrics 12 (Jan.–Feb., 1997), pp. 1-25.[pdf].
• Jonathan B. Pritchett and Insan Tunali, “Strangers' Disease: Determinants of Yellow Fever Mortality During the New Orleans Epidemic of 1853,” Explorations in Economic History 32 (October, 1995), pp. 517-539. [pdf].
• Jonathan B. Pritchett and Richard M. Chamberlain, “Selection in the Market for Slaves: New Orleans, 1830-1860,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 108 (May, 1993), pp. 461-473.[pdf].
• Jonathan B. Pritchett and Herman Freudenberger, “A Peculiar Sample: The Selection of Slaves for the New Orleans Market,” Journal of Economic History 52 (March, 1992), pp. 109-127. [pdf].
• Herman Freudenberger and Jonathan B. Pritchett, “The Domestic United States Slave Trade: New Evidence,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 21 (Winter, 1991), pp. 447-477. [pdf].
• Jonathan B. Pritchett, “The Burden of Negro Schooling: Tax Incidence and Racial Redistribution in Postbellum North Carolina,” Journal of Economic History 49 (December, 1989), pp. 966-973. [pdf].
• Jonathan B. Pritchett, “The Term of Occupancy of Southern Farmers in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century,” Historical Methods 20 (Summer, 1987), pp. 107-112. [pdf].
• Jonathan B. Pritchett, “North Carolina's Public Schools: Growth and Local Taxation,” Social Science History 9 (Fall, 1985), pp. 277-291. [pdf].

Forthcoming or under review

• Charles W. Calomiris and Jonathan B. Pritchett, “Preserving Slave Families for Profit: Traders’ Incentives and Pricing in the New Orleans Slave Market,” Journal of Economic History 69 (December, 2009), pp. 986-1011. Also NBER working paper 14281.[pdf].
• Jonathan B. Pritchett and Myeong-Su Yun, “A Safety Net for Slaves? Public hospital care for slaves in New Orleans, 1855-1860,” Tulane University, pp. 1-30.

Teaching Awards

• Honors Professor of the Year, Tulane University, 2007.
• The William L. Duren '26 Professorship, 2009-2010.

Selected University & Departmental Service

• Chair, Department of Economics, 2002-2005.
• Student Affairs Committee for the Senate, 2001-2006 (Chair, 2003-2006)
• University Senator, 2003-2006
• LAS Promotions & Tenure Committee, 2002
• Newcomb Honor Board, 1988 - 1991
• Student Academic Judiciary Committee, 1991-1993 (Chair, 1993), 1995-1998
• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Economics, 1992-1998, 2001-2002, 2006-2009
• Faculty Advisor, Omicron Delta Epsilon, 1997-present
• Senate Committee on Libraries, 2006-present.

 

Referee for

• American Economic Review, Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, Social Science History, Journal of Law and Economics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Southern Economic Journal, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, National Science Foundation, Agricultural History, Regional Studies, and Historical Methods.