Faculty Spotlight
Qinglai Meng's two papers have recently been accepted for publication at Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking (2012) and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2013).
Todd Pugatch and Liz Schroeder traveled to Gambia in December for the World Bank. They conducted an evaluation of an education reform intended to improve teacher qualifications in remote areas.
Todd Pugatch has received a Faculty Time Release Award for his research project on "U.S. Border Enforcement and Mexican Immigrant Location Choice" for Spring 2013.
Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf are among the ISI Web of Knowledge 250 most highly cited scholars in Economics and Business. ISIHighlyCited.com highlights the top 250 preeminent individual researchers in each of 21 subject categories who have demonstrated great influence in their field as measured by citations to their work--the intellectual debt acknowledged by their colleagues.
Todd Pugatch presented his paper "Safety Valve or Sinkhole? Vocational Schooling in South Africa" at the Pacific Conference for Development Economics on March 17, 2012 at UC-Davis.
Todd Pugatch was named Research Affiliate for IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor), a labor economics research institute in Bonn, Germany. Patrick Emerson joined IZA as a Research Fellow in 2007.
Victor and Carol Tremblay recently had published "The Cournot-Bertrand Model and the Degree of Product Differentiation", Economics Letters, June 2011.
Patrick Emerson (with André Portela Souza) recently had published “Is Child Labor Harmful? The Impact of Starting to Work as a Child on Adult Earnings,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, January 2011, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 345-385.
Carol Tremblay and Shawna Grosskopf (with Ke Yang) recently had published “Brainstorm: Occupational Choice, Bipolar Illness and Creativity,” Economics and Human Biology, 8(10), July 2010: 233-241.
Rolf Färe was awarded an honorary doctorate from University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2010.