Educational Services
First, please check out my current and former students. They are all working hard, excelling in the classroom, and making worthy research contributions .
Zachary Rodriguez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Union College, web site
Zachary Porreca, current WVU grad student, web site
Joy Kanengiser, current WVU grad student
Ian Maupin, current WVU grad student
Here is information on some extracurricular activities I lead:
CFE Summer Empirical Workshop
Each summer I run a two-week summer workshop in empirical methods. The objective is to expose Ph.D. students in empirical methods they might not have seen in standard coursework. The workshop explores a number of topics such as experimental methods, web scraping, text analysis, falsification/robustness tests, alternatives to OLS, and causal inference (i.e., difference-in-difference, regression discontinuity, and synthetic control).
The most recent call for applications is here.
Information about the program can be found here.
Graduate Reading Group
The graduate reading group is a weekly meeting of motivated Ph.D. students in our department. Every Thursday we get together at the local microbrewery to discuss a journal article for the week. The article is typically a seminal contribution in political economy, a well-cited paper by an upcoming seminar series speaker, or a research paper recently published in a top-tier economics journal.
Recent reading lists are here.
Law and Economics Student Club
I serve as the coordinator of the 3+3 Program at WVU. Students interested in law and economics complete an undergraduate degree in economics and are automatically admitted into WVU Law (conditional on minimum GPA and LSAT levels). In this role I advise an undergraduate student club in Law and Economics. We bring in a slate of guest speakers each semester.
Check out our page here: WVU Law and Economics Club.
2022-23 Courses
Microeconomic Theory I (PhD level)
Public Economics II (PhD level)
Law and Economics (BA level)
Frequently Taught Undergraduate Courses
Law and Economics
Game Theory
Behavioral Economics
Econometrics
Frequently Taught MBA Courses
Managerial Economics
Game Theory for the Strategic Manager
Behavioral Economics
Frequently Taught PhD Courses
Microeconomic Theory I
Public Economics I or II
Law and Economics Seminar