Darshak Patel's paper, "Can financial literacy education reduce the use of Medicaid and SNAP?" co-authored with Abdullah Al Bahrani (UKY Economics PhD `10 and associate professor of economics at Northern Kentucky University) and Jamie Weathers (assistant professor of Finance at Western Michigan University) recently published in Financial Services Review.
Ana María Herrera's paper "Impulse response analysis for structural dynamic models with nonlinear regressors, " (co-authored with Silvia Goncalves, Lutz Kilian and Elena Pesavento) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Econometrics.
Economics faculty members Chuck Courtemanche and Aaron Yelowitz recently contributed to the New York Times article, "Covid Isn’t Done Changing the Life Insurance Industry Just Yet."
On June 21, KET's "Kentucky Tonight" host Renee Shaw spoke with panelists including Mike Clark and Ken Troske about the state's labor shortage and how companies are facing hiring challenges as they seek to keep pace with the economic recovery.
Economics Ph.D student Hyein Kang was awarded a fellowship from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy.
