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Projects & Grants

  • IMPA model accounting for market power in economic activity.Institute for Macroeconomic & Policy Analysis (IMPA)is a non-partisan research institute committed to building a fair and prosperous economy. To this end, our mission is to conduct cutting edge scholarly research and serve as a forum for discussions on macroeconomics, public finance, and inequality, in order to inform the public and enrich contemporary policy debates.
  • Amos Golan, Foundations of Info-MetricsInfo-Metrics Institute: Established in 2009, the institute promotes interdisciplinary study of information, information processing and decision rules through collaborations among researchers across the scientific spectrum and dissemination of knowledge through conferences, workshops and seminars as well as through short-term, hands-on classes at the graduate and post-graduate level.

    Women in amphitheater classroomGender Working Group(GWG), comprising department faculty, resident scholars, and graduate students, has strong relations with a variety of relevant organizations, including the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Vital Voices, Merck KGaA, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, often in league with our Program on Gender Analysis in Economics.

  • Care worker and wheelchair.
    The Care Work and the Economy (CWE-GAM) Project is striving to reduce gender gaps in economic outcomes and enhance gender equality by illuminating and properly valuing the broader economic and social contributions of caregivers and integrating care in macroeconomic policymaking toolkits.

Recent Grants

  • Mieke Meurswas awarded $800,000 from the Open Society Foundation renewal grant for the PGAE Global Scholars,2021.
  • Ignacio Gonzalez-Garciaand Juan Montecino received a $500,401 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation for“The Macroeconomics of Taxation and Inequality in the United States: A Proposal for a New Policy Model and Institute.”
  • Amos Golanreceived supplemental funding of $60,114from the US Department of Agriculturefor the“The Value of Publicly Available Information and Data.”
  • Mary Hansenreceived a$29,876 NSFgrant for “Doctoral Dissertation Research in DRMS: A Comparison of Value of Statistical Life Estimates Derived from Revealed and Stated Preferences.”
  • Gregory Lane received a $16,727 grant from London School of Economics for “The Potential for E-Commerce Platforms to unlock high growth for firms in Africa,” 2021.
  • Kelly Jonesreceived $26,552 from Manhattan Strategy Group and US Department of Labor for her project onimproving FMLA coverage in underserved communities, 2021.

Selected Publications

Selected Recent Works

  • "", Gabriel Mathy. Eastern Economic Journal49, no. 2 (2023): 206-220.
  • “”, Alan G. Isaac,Social Science Computer Review, 2024.
  • "," Boris Gershman & Tinatin Mumladze. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 220, April 2024, 768-791.

  • “”Alan G. Isaac & Vasudeva Ramaswamy. Quantitative Finance 23(12), 2023, 1871–1886.

    “,” Amanda Beaudoin &Alan G. Isaac. Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination18, January 2023, 191–212.

    Blecker, Robert A., "Open Economy Macro Models," in Rochon, Louis-Philippe, and Sergio Rossi (Eds.),Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

  • Blecker, Robert A., "Goodwin Cycles,"in Rochon, Louis-Philippe, and Sergio Rossi (Eds.),Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.
  • Blecker, Robert A., "Open Economy Macro Models," in Rochon, Louis-Philippe, and Sergio Rossi (Eds.),Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.
  • Blecker, Robert A., "Chapter Eleven. Mexico: Unequal Integration and 'Stabilizing Stagnation,'" in Wray, L. Randall and Flavia Dantas (Eds.),,Elsevier, 2022: 225-249.
  • Gershman, Boris, "," PLoS ONE 17(11): e0276872, November 2022.
  • Gershman, Boris,"" in Zimmerman, Klaus F. (Ed.),Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Popluation Economics, Springer, Cham,2022.
  • Larson, Nathan,","Review of Economic Studies, October 2022.
  • Sheng, Xuguang (Simon), Salem Abo-Said, and Zidong An, ""Journal of Applied Econometrics, January 2023.
  • Wisman, Jon D.,(2022), Oxford University Press.


See also: AU Economics series.

Papers by Subject Area

Isaac, Alan,Eastern Economic Journal,2018.

Gershman, Boris, Quamrul Ashraf, and Peter Howitt, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, March 2017.

Golan, Amos,Minds & Machines28 (2018): 787.

Golan, Amos, Lumsdaine, R. L., "Constructing Prior Information in the Social Sciences-An Info-metrics Approach,"Advances in Econometrics, 36 (2016).

Sheng, Xuguang (Simon), Frieder Mokinski, and Jingyun Yang, Journal of Forecasting,March 2015.

Sheng, Xuguang (Simon),International Journal of Forecasting,January-March 2015.

Golan, Amos, Henderson, H., Seabold, S., "Incorporating Prior Information When True Priors are Unknown: An Information-Theoretic Approach for Increasing Efficiency in Estimation,"Economic Letters127 (2015):1-5.

Wisman, Jon, "" in Kurtz, Lester, (Ed.),Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict,vol. 1, Elsevier Academic Press, 2022: 47-57.

Wisman, Jon and Michael Cauvel, "Why Has Labor Not Demanded Guaranteed Employment?"Journal of Economic Issues55, no. 3 (September 2021): 677-697.

Wisman, Jon and Quentin Duroy. ""Journal of Economic Issues54, no. 3 (Fall 2020): 854-872.

Mary Eschelbach Hansen, Erin E. George, Julie Lyn Routzahn,","Journal of Consumer Affairs, 2018.

Mathy, Gabriel, Jaremski, M,"How was the Quantitative Easing of the 1930s Unwound?" Explorations in Economic History, 2018.

Wisman, JonD.,"The Darwinian dynamic of sexual selection that Thorstein Veblen missed and its relevance to institutional economics," Journal of Institutional Economics, 2018.

Wisman, JonD., "Adam Smith and Thorstein Veblen on the Pursuit of Status Through Consumption versus Work,"Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2018.

Wisman, JonD., "Marx, the Predisposition to Reject Markets and Private Property, and Attractive Alternatives to Capitalism,"Forum for Social Economics,2018.

Hansen,Mary Eschelbach and Nicholas L. Ziebarth, "Credit Relationships and Business Bankruptcy During the Great Depression,"AEJ: Macroeconomics9, no. 2(April 2017).

Mathy, Gabriel P.,"Hysteresis and Persistent Long-term Unemployment: The American Beveridge Curve of the Great Depression and World War II," Cliometrica, 2017.

Mathy, Gabriel P. and Matthew Jaremski, "Looking Back on the Age of Checking in America, 1800-1960,"Revista de la Historia de la Economia y de la Empresa, 2017.

Mathy,Gabriel and Nicolas L. Ziebarth, "How Much Does Political Uncertainty Matter? The Case of Louisiana Under Huey Long," The Journal of Economic History, March 2017.

Hansen,Mary Eschelbach andMichelle McKinnon Miller, "A New View of Women in Bankruptcy: Evidence from Maryland Since 1940,"American Bankruptcy Institute Journal 34(November 2016).

Hansen,Mary Eschelbach andNicholas L. Ziebarth, "Credit Relationships and Business Bankruptcy During the Great Depression,"AEJ: Macroeconomics.

Hansen, Mary E. andBradley A. Hansen, "The Historian's Craft and Economics,"Journal of Institutional Economics, June 2016.

Mathy, Gabriel,"Stock Volatility, Return Jumps, and Uncertainty Shocks During The Great Depression,"Financial History Review, July 2016.

Hansen, Mary,Enterprising America,William Collins and Robert Margo, eds. NBER/University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Gershman, Boris, "," in Zimmerman, Klaus F. (Ed.),Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics,Springer, Cham, 2022.

Mohseni-Cheraghlou, Amin and Seyed Reza Mirnezami, "," vol. 15(9),Energies, 2022: 3230.

Yesuf, Mahmud and Randall Bluffstone, ""Journal of African Economies28, no. 1(2019).

Gershman, Boris and Diego Rivera,Journal of Development Economics, 2018.

Leight, Jessica, Vandana Sharma, Willa Brown, Laura Costica, Fatima Abdulaziz Sule, and Martina Bjorkman Nyqvist, "PLoS ONE13, no. 12(2018): e0208885.

Gershman, Boris,Demographic Change and Long-Run Development, 2017.

Gunter, Bernhard, Faisal Ahmed, A.F.M. Ataur Rahman, and Jesmin Rahman),"Do Patterns of Development and Macroeconomic Uncertainty Explain Bangladesh's Savings and Investment Puzzle?"Money and Macroeconomics: Selected Topics from Bangladesh, 2017.

Henderson, H., Alan G. Isaac, "Modern Value Chains and the Organization of Agrarian Production." American Journal of Agricultural Economics99, no. 2 (2017):379–400.

Meurs, M. E., Amartuvshin, A., Banzragh, O., "Livestock Income of Mongolian Herders: A Path to Rural Prosperity?" Nomadic Peoples, 2017.

Radchenko, Natalia, Paul Corral, and Paul Winters,Agricultural Economics, 2017.

Radchenko, Natalia andPaul Corral,World Development,(2017):231-253.

Radchenko, Natalia and Paul Corral,Journal of Development Studies, 2017.

Floro, Maria S., P. Yokying, B. Sangaroon, T. Tassanee Sushevagul,"Understanding Work-Life Balance Situation of Women and Men in Thailand: Through the Lens of Time-Use Data," Asia-Pacific Population Journal31, no. 1(2016): 87-107.

Floro, Maria S. and Elizabeth King,"The Present and Future of Time Use Surveys in Developing Countries," Asia-Pacific Population Journal31, no. 1 (2016): 5-42.

Gershman, Boris,Journal of Development Economics,May 2016.

Gunter, Bernhard, "Revisiting Debt Sustainability in Africa,"Background Paper for UNCTAD's 2016Economic Development in Africa Report: "Debt Dynamics and Development Finance in Africa,"August 2016.

Sawers, Larry, Eileen Stillwaggon, Jonathan Rout MD, David Addiss MD, and LeAnne Fox MD, "Economic Costs and Benefits of a Community-based Lymphedema-management Program for Lymphatic Filariasis in Odisha State, India,"American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene,2016.

Gershman, BorisJournal of Economic Behavior and Organization, February 2015.

Meurs, M. E., Kochut, R., Ahranjani, M., "Local Government Performance in Rural Poland: The Roles of Local Government Characteristics and Inherited Conditions,"Landbauforschung-Applied Agriculture and Forestry Research, 2015.

Mohseni-Cheraghlou, Amin,International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, 2015.

Mohseni-Cheraghlou, Amin inThe Routledge Handbook of Religions and Global Development, 2015.

Yesuf, Mahmud, Randall Bluffstone, Takuro Uehara, Bilisuma Bushie, and Demessie Damite, Journal of Development Studies,December 2015.

Ambler, Kate, Kelly Jones, and Michael O'Sullivan, "" World Development(2021): 138.

Meurs, Mieke, et al., ""Central Asian Survey,September 2021.

Meurs, Mieke, et al., ""Comparative Economic Studies,October 2021.

Meurs, Mieke and Lisa Giddings, ""European Journal of Social Policy,February 2021.

Floro, Maria, Mahmud Yesuf, and Trufat Woldesenbet,The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses 11, no. 2 (2019): 21-39.

Meurs, Mieke and Rita Ismaylov,""Feminist Economics25, no. 1(2019).

Hansen, Mary Eschelbach, Erin E. George and Julie Lyn Routzahn,Journal of Consumer Affairs, 2018.

Floro, MariaS., C. Bruyere, S. Fengdan, P. Xuhua,"Bargaining Power and the Household Division of Labor by Gender: Evidence from the China Time Use Survey,"Asia-Pacific Population Journal31, no. 1 (2016): 63-86.

Floro, Maria S., Willoughby, JohnA.,"Feminist Economics and The Global Economy: The Challenges that Awaits Us." The Fletcher Forum for World Affairs40, no. 2 (2016): 5-17.

Floro, MariaS., and M. Terbish, "How does the Presence of Infrastructure (or lack thereof) Affect Time Use in Mongolia?" Asia-Pacific Population Journal30, no. 1 (2016): 43-62.

Floro, MariaS., P. Yokying, B. Sangaroon, and T. Tassanee Sushevagul, "Understanding Work-Life Balance Situation of Women and Men in Thailand: Through the Lens of Time-Use Data," Asia-Pacific Population Journal31, no. 1 (2016):87-107.

Hansen, Mary Eschelbach, and Michelle McKinnon Miller, American Bankruptcy Institute Journal 34,November 2016.

Radchenko, Natalia,Pierre-Andre Chiappori and Bernard Salanie,Review of Economics of the Household.

Blecker, Robert A., "" Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Blecker, Robert A., ""Journal of Economic Surveys, 36(2): 429-467, April 2022.

Blecker, Robert A., Michael Cauvel, and Y.K. Kim, ""Cambridge Journal of Economics,January 2022.

Willoughby, John A. and Zehra Aftab,""Pakistan Institute of Development Economics,January 2020.

Wisman, JohnD., "Marx, the Predisposition to Reject Markets and Private Property, and Attractive Alternatives to Capitalism," Forum for Social Economics,2018.

Wisman, John D.,"Politics, Not Economics, Ultimately Drives Inequality,"Challenge, 60, no. 4 (2017): 347-367.

Blecker, Robert A., "The Debate over 'Thirwall's Law': Balance-of-Payments-Constrained Growth Reconsidered,"European Journal of Economics and Economic Policy: Intervention, 13, no. 3(2016).

Blecker, Robert A., "Wage-led Versus Profit-led Demand Regimes: The Long and the Short of It,"Review of Keynesian Economics, vol. 4, no. 4 (Winter 2016): 373-390.

Blecker, Robert A., European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention, 13, no. 2 (2016): 202-214

Floro, MariaS., Willoughby, JohnA,"Feminist Economics and The Global Economy: The Challenges that Awaits Us," The Fletcher Forum for World Affairs, 40, no. 2 (2016): 5-17.

Isaac, AlanG.,"Comment on ‘Homo Socialis: An Analytical Core for Sociological Theory,’"Review of Behavioral Economics, 2, nos. 1-2(2015):113-121.

Blecker, Robert A., ""Journal of Economic Surveys, 36(2): 429-467, April 2022.

Blecker, Robert A., "Mexico: Unequal Integration and 'Stabilizing Stagnation,'" in Wray, L. Randall and Flavia Dantas (Eds.),,Elsevier, 2022: 225-249.

Blecker, Robert A., "T"Norteamérica,16(2): 289-315, 2021.

Sonenshine, Ralph M. and Michael Lifshutz, ""Journal of Economics and Trade6, no. 1 (2021): 13-23.

Gunter, Bernhard and Britni Wilcher,""The World Economy43, no. 4 (April 2020): 1076-1102.

Feinberg, Robert and Kara Reynolds,“How Do Countries Respond to Antidumping Filings? Dispute Settlement and Retaliatory Antidumping,”The World Economy41, no. 5(2018).

Reynolds, Kara M. and B.Rigod,"Russia—Tariff Treatment: Identifying Systematic Violations of WTO Law,"World Trade Review17, no. 2 (2018): 291-312.

Reynolds, Kara M. andChad P. Bown, Review of International Organizations, June 2015.

Blecker, Robert A. andCarlos A. Ibarra, Cambridge Journal of Economics,February 2015.

Feinberg, Robert, Southern Economic Journal,January 2015.

Hoffman, Vivian and Kelly Jones, ""World Development143(2021).

Jones, Kelly and Erick Gong, ""Journal of Health Economics 78(2021).

Feinberg, Robertand Daniel Kuehn,","Review of Industrial Organization57, no. 3 (November 2020): 607-626.

Feinberg, Robert,","Economics Bulletin40, no. 4 (2020): 2964-2977.

Radchenko, Natalia,","Education Economics28, no. 6 (2020): 549-566.

Sonenshine, Ralph M., ""Eurasian Business Review10(2020): 287-308.

Sonenshine, Ralph,"Merger Waves: Are buyers following the herd or responding to structural queues?"Eurasian Business Review,2019.

Davis, M., MaryE. Hansen, Thomas Husted,"The Impact of Political Influence on Appointees: Evidence from the Small Business Administration Disaster Loan Program," Southern Economic Journal, 84, no. 3 (2018): 771-785.

Husted, ThomasA., Kenny, L. W., "The Effect of Reduced Support from State Government on Research in State Universities,"Journal of Educaton Finance, 44, no. 2 (2018): 164-174.

Isaac, AlanG., Sawers, L. B.,"Partnership Duration and Concurrent Partnering: Implications for Models of HIV Prevalence." Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2018.

Jones, Kelly, Vivian Hoffmann, and Jef Leroy, "The impact of reducing aflatoxin exposure on child linear growth in Kenya: a cluster randomized controlled trial," British Medical Journal: Global Health, 3, no. 6 (2018).

Kahn, N. and Hansen, MaryE.,"Measuring Racial Disparities in Foster Care Placement: A Case Study of Texas,"Children and Youth Services Review, 76 (May 2018):213-226.

Sullivan, Paul andKamila Sommer,American Economic Review, February 2018.

Kahn, Nicholas,Josh Gupta-Kagan, and Mary Eschelbach HansenJournal of Empirical Legal Studies14(June 2017).

Kahn, Nicholas E., and Mary Eschelbach,Children and Youth Services Review 76(May 2017).

Kahn, NicholasE., J. Gupta-Kagan, and MaryE. Hansen, "Standards of Proof in the Substantiation of Child Abuse and Neglect,"The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 14, no. 2 (2017): 333-369.

Provencher, A.,N. Kahn, and MaryE. Hansen,"Adoption Policy and the Well-Being of Adopted Children in the U.S. Child Welfare," 95, no. 1 (2017): 27-55.

Larson, Nathan,Delay in Global Games. B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 16, no. 1 (2016): 83-117.

Robert Feinberg, Thomas Husted and Florian Szucs, Journal of Competition Law & Economics,March 2015.

Feinberg, Robert,B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Topics),January 2015.

Husted, ThomasA., S. E. Irvine Belson, "Impact of National Board for the Professional Teaching Standards Certification on Student Achievement,"Education Policy Analysis Archives, 23, no. 91 (2015): 18.

Irvine Belson, S. E., ThomasA.Husted, "State of the States 2014: Maryland,"Journal of Education Finance, 41, no. 2 (2015): 235-237.

Larson, Nathan,"Inertia in Social Learning from a Summary Statistic," Journal of Economic Theory, 159(2015): 596-626.

Larson, Nathan, A. Baik, and S. Anderson,"Personalized Pricing and Advertising: An Asymmetric Equilibrium Analysis,"Games and Economic Behavior, 92(2015): 53-73.

Sonenshine, Ralph and Evan Kraft, "Determinants of Financial Service Mergers: An Analysis of Economic and Institutional Factors,"Review of Economics and Finance, August 2015.

Yesuf, Mahmudand Robert M. Feinberg, Applied Economics Letters,August 2015.

Blecker, Robert A., ""Journal of Economic Surveys, 36(2): 429-467, April 2022.

Blecker, Robert A., Michael Cauvel, and Y.K. Kim, ""Cambridge Journal of Economics,January 2022.

Blecker, Robert A., Review of Keynesian Economics9, no. 2(Summer 2021): 175-203.

Blecker, Robert A., "" Journal of Economic Surveys,September 4, 2021.

Davis, Steven J., Dingqian Liu, and Xuguang Simon Sheng, ""IMF Economic Review,2021.

Meyer, Brent, Brian Prescott, and Xuguang Simon Sheng, ","International Journal of Forecasting,2021.

Blecker, Robert A. and Mark Setterfield,","European Journal of Economics and Economic Policy: Intervention17, no. 3 (November 2020): 295-306.

Gunter, Bernhard,A.F.M. Ataur Rahman,"Relationship Between Money Growth and Stock Prices in Bangladesh,"Money and Macroeconomics: Selected Topics from Bangladesh, 2017.

Mathy, Gabriel P.,Cliometrica, 2017.

Gershman, Boris,Quamrul Ashraf and Peter Howitt, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, March 2017.

Blecker, Robert A. "The Debate over 'Thirlwall's Law': Balance-of-Payments-Constrained Growth Reconsidered,"European Journal of Economics and Economic Policy: Intervention13, no. 3(2016).

Blecker, Robert A. "Wage-led Versus Profit-led Demand Regimes: The Long and the Short of It,"Review of Keynesian Economics, 4, no. 4(Winter 2016):373-390.

Blecker, Robert A., Studies in Political Economy, 97, no. 1(2016): 76-86.

Feinberg, Robert,Daniel Kuehn, Signe-Mary McKernan, Doug Wissoker, and Sisi Zhang, Review of Industrial Organization,March 2015.

Kraft, Evanand Ralph Sonenshine,"Determinants of Financial Firms' Merger Premia: Economic and Institutional Factors,"Review of Economics and Finance, 5, no. 3 (2015): 66-82.

Gonzalez Garcia, Ignacio, Sala, H.,"Investment Crowding-Out and Labor Market Effects of Financialization," US. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 61, no. 5 (2014): 589-613.

Feinberg, Robert, ""Applied Economics Letters,2021.

Feinberg, Robert, ""Migration Letters18, no. 5 (September 2021): 499-506.

Gunter, Bernhard, Bon Sun Seo, and Farah Tasneem, ","The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies17, no. 1 (August 2021): 1-12.

Hansen, Mary Eschelbach, Michael Martell, and Leanne Roncolato, ""Journal of Demographic Economics.November 2021.

Kyui, Natalia and Natalia Radchenko, "The Changing of Composition of Academic Majors and Wage Dynamics: Beyond Mean Returns,"Journal of Comparative Economics49, no. 2 (2021): 358-381.

Stinebrickner, Ralph, Todd Stinebrickner, and Paul Sullivan, Journal of Labor Economics37, no. 2 (2019).

Feinberg, Robert and Daniel Kuehn, BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 18, no. 3(2018).

Sullivan, Paul J., "Beauty, Job Tasks, and Wages: a New Conclusion about Employer Taste-Based Discrimination,"Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018.

Radchenko, Natalia,Journal of Development Studies,(2017): 495-513.

Hansen, Mary Eschelbach, Nicholas Kahn, and Josh Gupta-Kagan, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies,2016.

Hansen, Mary Eschelbach and Michael E. Martell, Review of Social Economy, 2016.

Sawers, Larry, Eileen Stillwaggon, Jonathan Rout MD, David Addiss MD, and LeAnne Fox MD, "Economic Costs and Benefits of a Community-based Lymphedema-management Program for Lymphatic Filariasis in Odisha State, India,"American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene,2016.

Willoughby, JohnA., L. Roncolato, "Job Quality Complexities: Self-employment within the low-income communities surrounding Cape Town, South Africa,"Review of Radical Poltiical Ecomnomics49, no. 1 (2015):30-53.

Student Research & Awards

  • Vasudeva Ramaswamy, August 2023, "Monetary Policy, Market Behavior and Fiscal Interventions: Theoretical and Empirical Work in Heterogeneity"
  • Maylin Sun, May 2023, "Navigating Dollar Funding Shortage and Trade Intervention: Implications for Macroeconomic Stability and Exchange Rate Dynamics"
  • Elissa Cohen, April 2023, "Evaluating the Validity of the Value of Statistical Life"
  • Mariam Hamza, April 2023, "Three Essays in Health and Education Economics in Egypt"
  • Tamal Monsur, April 2023, "Alternative Monetary Policy Regimes in Five Emerging Nations: An Empirical Analysis"
  • Cassandra Rattan, April 2023, "Three Essays on Export Structure"
  • Farah Tasneem, April 2023, "Essays on Policy Evaluation"
  • Noha Huwit, March 2023, "Three Essays on the Effect of Legalizing Marijuana on Health, Edcuation, and Social Security"
  • Bongsun Regina Seo, March 2023, "Three Essays on Labor Market and Health Inequities by Race and Gender"
  • Ameesh Upadhyay, July 2022, "Essays on Conflict, Diversity, and Economic Development"
  • Glen Kwende, June 2022, "Job Separation, Wage Rigidity, and Bargaining Power in Search Models"
  • Duff, Giraldine, May 2023, "A Cross-national Study of Different Education Measurements and Their Effects on Poverty Reduction"
    Improving access to school has been a component in gobal poverty reduction intitiatives for decades. Yet, despite global levels of school enrollment reaching an all-time high, global poverty reduction has slowed. In this paper, I test whether focusing on alternative measurements of education, like test scores, is more effective in predicting reductions in poverty when compared to school enrollment. I find that, while both access and quality of education are important in reducing poverty levels, quality of education has a stronger effect. Furthermore, I assess how differences in income levels across countries can affect returns to education.
  • Wharff, Michael, May 2023, "Taking Off or Turbulence? An Empirical Analysis of the Price Effects of the U.S. Airways and American Airlines Merger"
    Ever since the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, airline mergers have been a hot topic of debate in the fields of antitrust and industrial organization. While the empirical evidence covering early airline mergers largely suggests these mergers remains unclear. This paper contributes to the existing literature by conducting a difference-in-differences analysis on the domestic pricing effects of the U.S. Airways and American Airlines merger. My analysis suggests small, but highly statistically significant, increases in airfares in markets affected by the U.S. Airways and American Airlines merger. However, overall welfare effects remain unclear.

Research Papers

Endres, Erin, December 2022, "What Factors Contribute to Differences in Residential Solar Panel Installations and Electric Vehicle Purchases Across California? A County Level Analysis from 2011-2020."

Memon, Zander, December 2022, "Measuring the Impact of Universal Pre-Kindergarten Programs on Maternal Labor Outcomes: A Synthetic Control Approach."

Nibarger, Emma, December 2022, "Modeling the Impact of Bank Yields."

Scroggs, David, December 2022, "The Effects of Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) on Government Spending and Public Services."

Sun, Ziqi, December 2022, "Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Catering Industry: Evidence from the Stock Market for Multinational Restaurant Chains."

Global Majority E-JournalResearch by AU Undergraduates

: Volume 14, Number 1(June2023)

  • Calkins, Ben, "The Dictator's Playbook: Poverty Perpetuating Power Structures in Azerbaijan and Chad"
  • Ells, Willem, "Disappearing Forests: Climate Change and Deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Brazil"
  • Hopkins, Annika, "Trade in Indonesia and Thailand: A Double-Edged Sword"
  • Tully, Clara, "Inequality in Brazil and Argentina: Progress and Regress"

James H. Weaver Prize: William Mooney
Awarded to a graduate student for excellence in teaching.

Professor Jose D. and Ursula Epstein Award: Michael Sherr & Michael Wharff
Awarded to the student in the Masters of Arts program in Development Banking with the best performance measured by culmuluative GPA.

Frank M. Tamagna Education Endowment Fund: Laura Heras Recuero
Awarded to a graduate student studying International Finance and Monetary Economics.

Fred and Barbara Bergmann Fellowship Fund: Aina Puig
Awarded to a student in the Program for Gender Analysis in Economics (PGAE).

Caroline and Rick Barnett Scholarship Fund: John Whitcomb
Awarded to an undergraduate studentstudying economics.

Ruth Dewey Meade Prize: Erin Endres & Emma Nibarger
Awarded to an undergraduate studyent demonstrating an exceptional research project.

Robert T. Adams Scholarship Fund: Mikala Drake
Awarded to an undergraduate student studying economics.

See more about Undergraduate Awards & Honors.