Faculty in vlog’s economics department contribute significant research to their fields — often in collaboration with their students—ranking in the top 10 for US Economics Departments at Liberal Arts Colleges according to . Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the department’ professors presented at virtual conferences and seminars. Here are some recent publications from the 2020-2021 academic year:
- Ben Anderson’s paper “A Note on Endogenous Market Structure under Heterogeneous Firms” was published by the Journal of Industrial Economics.
- Isla Globus-Harris’ paper “Waiting Periods as a Screening Mechanism for Environmental Subsidies” was accepted by the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
- Michael Haines’ paper “Early Fertility Decline in the United States: Tests of Alternative Hypotheses using New IPUMS Complete-Count Census Microdata and Enhanced County-Level Data,” with David Hacker and Matthew Jaremski, was accepted by Research in Economic History.
- Takao Kato and Yang Song’ paper “Advising, Gender, and Performance: Evidence from a University with Exogenous Adviser- Student Gender Match” was recently accepted by Economic Inquiry.
- David Murphy’s paper, with V. Nourani, “Chatting at Church: Information Diffusion through Religious Networks,” was accepted by The Review of Economics and Statistics.
- Rishi Sharma’s paper, with A Deardorff, “Exempted Sectors in Free Trade Agreements,” was accepted by the Canadian Journal of Economics.
- Nicole Simpson published a second edition of her textbook, The Economics of Immigration in 2020, coauthored by M. Zavodny and C. Bansak.
- Yang Song’s paper, with Xintong Liu ’18, “Comparing the Ethnicity Proxy and Residual Method: Applications to the State-level DREAM Acts and DACA” was published by the Eastern Economic Journal.
- Chad Sparber’s paper, with M. Zavodny, “Immigration, Working Conditions, and Compensating Differentials,” was accepted by Industrial and Labor Relations.
- Bob Turner’s paper, with Christine Moskell, “Can a YouTube Video Lead to Changes in Environmental Beliefs, Attitudes, Norms, and Intended Behavior?” was recently accepted by the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.