December 19, 2022

Chuck Courtemanche's paper, "Intended and Unintended Effects of E-cigarette Taxes on Youth Tobacco Use," has been accepted for publication in Journal of Health Economics. 


December 01, 2022

Carlos Lamarche's paper, "Wild Bootstrap Inference For Penalized Quantile Regression For Longitudinal Data," has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Econometrics. The paper was co-authored with Thomas Parker of the University of Waterloo. 


November 29, 2022

Darshak Patel has received the Kenneth G. Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award from the Southern Economic Association® (SEA) a national recognition for his contributions to economics education.


November 18, 2022

Congratulations to Sarah (Burns) John, Ph.D. ’13 [Economics] for recently receiving the 2022 Larry D. Welch Award for Best External Publication for “Deterring Illegal Entry: Migrant Sanctions and Recidivism in Border Apprehensions.” The article was published in American Economic Journal in August 2021.


November 15, 2022

Economics Department Chair and Poverty Center Director, James Ziliak and colleague Maggie Jones, senior economist at the U.S. Census Bureau, were recently selected to receive the 2022 Richard A. Musgrave Prize for their paper published in the National Tax Journal.


November 09, 2022

Josh Ederington, joint with Mihai Paraschiv (2016 Gatton Ph.D. now at SUNY-Oswego) and Maurizio Zanardi (U. Surrey), titled "The Short and Long-run Effects of International Environmental Agreements on Trade," was recently accepted for publication in Journal of International Economics.


October 17, 2022

Chuck Courtemanche's paper, "The effects of e-cigarette taxes on e-cigarette prices and tobacco product sales: Evidence from retail panel data," has been accepted for publication in Journal of Health Economics. 


October 07, 2022

The Department of Economics and Institute for the Study for Free Enterprise co-hosted Board Governor Christopher Waller on October 6 for a lecture on current monetary policy and the economic outlook.


September 13, 2022

(CNN) — Food insecurity among families with children fell in 2021, reversing a spike during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a US Department of Agriculture report released Wednesday.


August 26, 2022

Ana Maria Herrera and Steve Lugauer, along with Ph.D Gatton alum Guowen Chen, had their paper entitled "Policy and Misallocation," accepted for publication at the European Economic Review.