The Gatton College of Business and Economics' 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.
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.
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.
Josh Ederington, joint with Mihai Paraschiv (2016 Gatton Ph.D. now at SUNY-Oswego) and Maurizio Zanardi (U.
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.
The Department of Economics and Institute for the Study for Free Enterprise co-hosted the Federal Reserve Board Governor Christopher Waller on Thursday, October 6, for a lecture on current monetary policy and the economic outlook. The lecture was held in the Gatton College of Business and Economics and was open to the public.
(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.
Some 6.2% of households with children, or 2.3 million families, were unable at times to provide adequate, nutritious food for their kids last year, compared with 7.6% in 2020, the report found. Last year’s rate was not significantly different than the 2019 share.
However, the news was not all good.
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.
Ana María Herrera has been named to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Business & Economics Statistics and the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Both journals are rated as A* journals (best or leading journal in its field) on the widely followed Australian Business Deans Council journal ranking lists.
Jim Ziliak, Chris Bollinger, and Gatton Ph.D alum, Charles Hokayem, had their paper entitled "Trends in Earnings Volatility using Linked Administrative and Survey Data" accepted for publication at the
