David Clingingsmith
Department of Economics
Weatherhead School of Management
Case Western Reserve University
11119 Bellflower Road, Room 281
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Phone: 216-368-4294
Email: david DOT clingingsmith AT gmail DOT com
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Citizenship: Canada and United States Martial status: Married, no children
Employment
- 2017- Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Economics, Case Western Reserve University
- 2014- 2017 Associate Professor (without tenure), Department of Economics, Case Western Reserve University
- 2007-2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Case Western Reserve University
Education
- 2007 Ph.D. Harvard University, Economics. Fields: Development Economics, Economic History, and Labor Economics. Advisors: Claudia Goldin, Michael Kremer (chair), Asim Khwaja, Jeffrey Williamson
- 1998 M.A., University of Chicago, Anthropology and Linguistics.
- 1993 B.A., University of Toronto, With High Distinction.
Refereed Publications
Clingingsmith and Williamson (2008). "Deindustrialization in 18th and 19th Century India: Mughal Decline, Climate Shocks and British Industrial Ascent" Explorations in Economic History. 45(3): 209-234.
Clingingsmith, Khwaja, and Kremer (2009). "Estimating the Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam’s Global Gathering" Quarterly Journal of Economics. August: 1133-1170.
Clingingsmith (2014). "Industrialization and Bilingualism in India" Journal of Human Resources. 49(1): 73-109.
Clingingsmith and Shane (2016). "How Individual Income Tax Policy Affects Entrepreneurship" Fordham Law Review. 84(6): 2495-2516.
Clingingsmith (2016). "Negative Emotions, Income, and Welfare: Casual Estimates from the PSID" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 130, 1-19.
Clingingsmith (2017). ""Are the World’s Languages Consolidating? On the Dynamics and Distribution of Language Population" The Economic Journal. 127(599): 143-176.
Clingingsmith and Shane (2019). ""Training Aspiring Entrepreneurs to Pitch Experienced Investors: Evidence from a Field Experiment in the United States" Management Science. Vol. 64, No. 11, pp. 5164--5179
Clingingsmith and Sheremeta (2017). ""Status and the Demand for Visible Goods: An Experiment on Conspicuous Consumption" Experiemental Economics. Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 877--904
Clingingsmith (2019). ""Mental accounts and the marginal propensity to give" Journal of the Economic Science Association. 5, 170-180
Shane, Drover, Cerf, and Clingingsmith (2020). ""Founder passion, neural engagement and informal investor interest in startup pitches: An fMRI study" Journal of Business Venturing; July 2020, 35(4), 105949.
Clingingsmith, Conley, and Shane (forthcoming). "How Pitch Order Affects Investor Interest" Journal of Innovation Economics and Management.
Working Papers
Other Publications
Clingingsmith and Kremer (2007). "Delivering Health Care" Boston Review. 32.
Clingingsmith, Khwaja, and Kremer (2008). "Of Mecca and Moderation" New York Times. May 20, 2008
Clingingsmith, Khwaja, and Kremer (2008). "The Impact of the Hajj" Dubai School of Government Policy Brief. August: 1133-1170.
Clingingsmith (2015). "Can Income Redistribution Help Fight Depression?" Corporte Knights. April, 2015.
Clingingsmith (2017). "Othering and the Economics of Inequality" Journal of Othering and Belonging. Issue 2.
Clingingsmith (2017). "Even with the Internet, We’re Not Any Closer to Everyone Speaking the Same Language" London School of Economics Business Review. March 21st.
Awards and Honors
- Winner of the 2020 Academy of Management Prize for most influential paper in organizational neuroscience for “Founder Passion, Neural Engagement, and Investor Interest in Startup Pitches: An fMRI Study.””
- Lewis-Progressive Fellowship, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, July 2016-July 2017.
- Weatherhead School of Management Undergraduate Teaching Award, Nominated 2013, 2015, 2016.
- Winner of the 2008 Explorations Prize for best article in Explorations in Economic History for “Deindustrialization in 18th and 19th Century India.”
Grants
- Weatherhead School of Management Intramural Grant.
Title: Followup of PITCHU Participants
Dates: 2018
Amount: $8,000
- Weatherhead School of Management Intramural Grant.
Title: Ethnicity, Education, and Marriage in the Interwar United States
Dates: 2016-2017
Amount: $6,000
- Weatherhead School of Management Intramural Grant.
Title: The Economics of Status: Consumption, Preferences, and Performance
Dates: 2015-2016
Amount: $6,960
- ACES+ Opportunity Grant, Case Western Reserve University
Title: Does “Colorblindness” Reduce or Increase Bias in Distributional Choice?
Dates: 2016-2017
Amount: $2,000
- Russell Sage Foundation. Co-PI
Title: How Much House Can We Afford?
Dates: 2010-2012
Amount: $35,000
- Metanexus Foundation. Spiritual Capital Program, Harvard University subcontract. PI
Title: Religion and Cooperation
Dates: 2010-2011
Amount: $31,000
- Higher Education Commission, Government of Pakistan. Co-PI
Title: Social Research Capacity Building Program.
Dates: 2008-2011
Amount: $50,000
- Metanexus Foundation. Spiritual Capital Program. (funded by Templeton Foundation) Co-PI
Title: The Impact of the Hajj.
Dates: 2006-2010
Amount: $150,000
Professional Presentations
Conferences
- Automation and the Labor Market after World War II, with Leah Boustan. Social Science History Assocation, November 2019.
- The Pros and Cons of Pitch Training, 2nd Workshop on Experimental Economics and Entrepreneurship, Copenhagen Business School, May 2018
- Comment on Can Governments Make Firms More Investment Ready? Innovation Growth Lab Winter Meeting, December 2017.
- Training Entrepreneurs to Pitch Experienced Investors. NBER Summer Institute, July 2016
- Status and the Demand for Visible Goods: An Experiment on Conspicuous Consumption. Economic Science Association North America Meeting, October 2015.
- Mental Accounts and the Mutability of Altruism: An Experiment with Online Workers. Science of Philanthropy Initiative Annual Conference, University of Chicago, September 2013.
- Mental Accounts and the Mutability of Altruism: An Experiment with Online Workers. Economic Science Association European Meeting, July 2013.
- Estimating the Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam’s Global Gathering. Cornell-Michigan-CEU Conference on Rethinking Ethnicity. Budapest, September 2008.
- Estimating the Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam’s Global Gathering. NBER National Security Working Group, February 2008.
- Estimating the Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam’s Global Gathering. Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture Annual Conference, Tampa, November 2007.
- Industrialization and Bilingualism in India. Harvard-Hitotsubashi-Warwick Conference on Economic Change around the Indian Ocean. Venice, July 2008.
- Language and Industrialization in mid-20th Century India. Canadian Network for Economic History, McGill University, April 2008.
- Industrialization and Bilingualism in India. Annual Conference on South Asia. Madison, October 2007.
- Industrialization and Bilingualism in India. 45th Cliometrics Conference. Tucson, September 2007.
- Contracting for Health: Evidence from Cambodia. 8th BREAD Conference. Cornell University,
Invited Seminars
- Training Aspiring Entrepreneurs to Pitch Experienced Investors, University of Toronto Munk School, February 2019.
- Training Aspiring Entrepreneurs to Pitch Experienced Investors, University of California—Merced Department of Economics, December 2018.
- Happiness, Income, and Redistribution. Public Affairs Friday Lunch. Case Western Reserve University Department of Political Science. April 2016
- Status and the Demand for Visible Goods: Experimental Evidence on Conspicuous Consumption. Kent State University, September 2015.
- Mental Accounts and the Marginal Willingness to Give. IUPUI Lilliy Family School of Philanthropy, May 2014.
- Mental Accounts and the Marginal Willingness to Give. The Ohio State University, November 2013.
- Language and Industrialization in mid-20th Century India. University of California—Los Angeles, November 2008.
- Estimating the Impact of the Hajj. Simon Fraser University, October 2008.
- Estimating the Impact of the Hajj. The Ohio State University, April 2008.
- Language and Industrialization in mid-20th Century India. University of British Columbia, October 2007.
- Language and Industrialization in mid-20th Century India. Case Western Reserve University, February 2007
- Language and Industrialization in mid-20th Century India. Reed College, February 2007
- Language and Industrialization in mid-20th Century India. Vanderbilt University, February 2007
- Language and Industrialization in mid-20th Century India. University of Toronto, January 2007
- Language and Industrialization in mid-20th Century India. University of California—Davis, January 2007
- Language and Industrialization in mid-20th Century India. Harvard Business School, December 2006
Teaching
Advising
- Claire Jeffress (2021-, honors thesis)
- Alec Hoover (2019-2020, honors thesis)
- Victoria Sung (2018-2019, honors thesis)
- Nathan Delany (2015-18, PhD History)
- Jackie Blair (2017-18; honors thesis)
- Jingze Sun (2015-16, honors thesis)
- Rich Narendran (2014-15, independent study)
- Melinda Ashe (2013-14, honors thesis)
- Anthony Gatti (2012-13, honors thesis)
- Andrin Foster (2012-13, honors thesis)
- Di Tang (2010-12, honors thesis)
- Jon Lewandowski (2012, independent study)
- Aya Du (2011-12, honors thesis)
- Michael Bielawski (2010-12, honors thesis)
- Dana Skold (2010-11, honors thesis)
- Allison Elder (2009-10, honors thesis)
- J.P. Graulty (2009-10, honors thesis)
- Yugarshi Mondal (2009-10, independent study)
Service
Referee
- American Economic Journal—Applied Economics
- Australian Journal of Economic History
- Economic History Review
- Economic Journal
- Economics of Education Review
- Explorations in Economic History
- Israeli Science Foundation
- Journal of Conflict Resolution
- Journal of Development Economics
- Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
- Journal of Economic History
- Journal of Economic Psychology
- Journal of the Experimental Science Association
- Journal of Human Resources
- Journal of Political Economy
- Journal of Urban Economics
- Management Science
- Oxford Economic Papers
- Oxford University Press
- Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Review of Economic Studies
- Review of Economics and Statistics
- Journal of Economic History
Institutional
University Level
- Faculty Senate, Senator, Summer 2021-Summer 2024
- FSCUE Subcommittee on Curricular and Pedagogical Preparations for Small Lecture Classes, Chair, Summer 2020
- Faculty Senate Honorary Degree Committee. Weatherhead School of Management Representative. Fall 2008-Fall 2020.
- Faculty Marshall. Commencement and Convocation. Spring 2010-Present.
- Academic Integrity Board. Faculty Representative. Fall 2010-Present.
- Faculty Senate Committee on Undergraduate Education Academic Standing Subcommittee. Faculty Representative. Spring 2015-Spring 2018.
School Level
- Weatherhead School of Management Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board, Spring 2021-
- Weatherhead School of Management Promotion and Tenure Committee. Member. Fall 2017-Present.
- Weatherhead School of Management Promotion and Tenure Committee. Observer. Fall 2015-Spring 2016.
- Weatherhead School of Management Executive Committee. Member and Secretary. Fall 2013-Spring 2016.
- Weatherhead School of Management. Secretary of the Faculty. Fall 2013-Spring 2016.
Department Level
- Department Chair. 2021-Present
- Strategic Planning Committee. Member 2017-Present
- Hiring Committee. Member. 2009-2012; 2017-2018
- Seminar Committee. Member. 2009-2014; 2018.
- Program Assessment Committee. Member. 2014-Present.
- McMyler Lecture Committee. Member 2014-Present.
- Brownbag Coordinator. 2014-Present.
- Undergraduate Advising. Approximately 10 students per year. Fall 2008-Present.
Affiliations
- American Economic Association
- Economic History Association
- Royal Economic Society
- Economic Science Association