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Jeffrey Jobu Morris Babin, Ph.D.
Updated Spring 2024
Contact Information
School of Accounting, Finance, Economics, and Decision Sciences, College of Business and Technology, Western Illinois University, Stipes 430D, 1 University Circle, Macomb, IL, 61455
jj-babin@wiu.edu, jobubabin@gmail.com Citizenship: United States of America
Employment:
Associate Professor of Economics, Western Illinois University, 2023 - present
Assistant Professor of Economics, Western Illinois University, 2017-23
Adjunct Professor, Christian Brothers University, 2016- 2018
Fields of Interest/Study:
Applied Microeconomics, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Game Theory, Discrimination Economics, Text/Communication Analytics
Education:
Doctor of Philosophy, Economics (high distinction), The University of Memphis, 2017
Dissertation: "Choice in Consideration of the Other: an Experimental Approach
M.S., Analytics (highest distinction), The University of Iowa, 2024
Graduate Certificate, Cognitive Science and Linguistics, The University of Memphis, 2016
M.A., Economics, The University of Memphis, 2015
B.B.A., Economics (w/Honors and thesis), The University of Memphis, 2013 (Summa)
Awards, Honors, Grants, and Memberships:
Cecil P. McDonough Endowed Professorship, Western Illinois University, 2022-24
Provost's Award of Mini-sabbatical, Western Illinois University, 2021
Dean's Award, Excellence in Teaching with Technology, CBT, Western Illinois University, 2019
NSF RAPID Grant, $10000, 2021
Russell Sage Foundation Small Grant for Behavioral Economics, $3500, 2017
Ph.D. Student Teaching Award, 1st Place, Fogelman College of Business and Economics, The University of Memphis, 2017
Economics and ADA Compliance Grant, Fogelman College of Business and Economics, The University of Memphis, 2016-17
Barbara K. Tuckman Memorial Fellowship, The University of Memphis, 2015-16
First Place, Graduate Student Research Forum, The University of Memphis, 2015
Departmental Summer Research Grant, 2014-16
Departmental Assistantship, Department of Economics, The University of Memphis, 2013-2017
Dean’s Award, Most Outstanding Student, Fogelman College of Business and Economics, The University of Memphis, 2013
Member: American Economic Association, American Statistical Association, American Psychological Association, Economic Science Association, International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP), Behavioral Economics and Organization Research Group (BEORG), Missouri Valley Economics Association, Midwest Economic Association, INFORMS, Illinois Economic Association
Member: Phi Kappa Phi, Beta Gamma Sigma, and Omicron Delta Epsilon National Honor Societies
Research Experience:
Current Research Interests: Communication/text chat analysis in bargaining games; social norms, belief formation, and stereotypes in games; attractiveness biases; treatment effect visualization
Participant, Design of Laboratory Experiments (w/ Catherine Eckel and Rick Wilson), summer research program, University of Michigan, 2015.
Publications:
Babin, JJ, Chauhan, H. "Revisiting Erat and Gneezy’s White Lies Paradigm" (2024). Journal of Economic Psychology. Vol. 102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2024.102704.
Babin, JJ. "Bias in Student Teaching Evaluation Comments: an NLP Approach" (2024, forthcoming, Applied Economics Letters).
Babin, JJ, Chauhan, H., and Kistler, S. (2024). "When Pretty Hurts: Beauty Premia and Penalties in eSports Contracts." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Vol. 217, pp.726-741.
Babin, JJ, and Hussey, AJ (2023). "Gender Penalties and Solidarity -- Teaching Evaluation Differentials in and out of STEM." Economics Letters. Vol. 226.
Babin, JJ, Chauhan, HS (2023). "Show No Quarter: Combating Plausible Lies with Ex Ante Honesty Oaths" Journal of the Economic Science Association. 9, pp. 66-76.
Babin, JJ, Chauhan, HS (2023). "Initiating Free-flow Communication in Trust Games." Frontiers in Behavioral Economics. Vol. 2.
Babin, JJ, Foray, MP, and Hussey, AJ (2024). "Gender-based Disparities in Loneliness under Shelter in Place Orders." Applied Economics Letters. Vol. 226.
Babin, JJ, Chauhan, HS, and Liu, F. (2022). "You Can’t Hide Your Lying Eyes: Honesty Oaths and Misrepresentation." Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. Vol. 98.
Babin, JJ, Foray, MP, and Hussey, AJ (2021). "Stay at Home Orders, Loneliness, and Collaborative Behavior." Economics and Human Biology, Vol. 43(1).
Guarin, G and Babin JJ. (2021). "Collaboration and Gender Focality in Stag Hunt Bargaining" Games, Vol. 12(2), 39.
Babin, JJ, Feld TN, Harriger-Lin, JL, and Mitchell, K. (2021). “The Best of Both Worlds? A Controlled Comparison of Hybrid and Online Economics Student Outcomes.” Journal of Education for Business. 97:1, 43-53.
Babin, JJ, Harriger-Lin, J., and Melkumian, A. (2021). Does Economic Inequality Impact Fan Arrests in NFL Stadia? Journal of Economic Insight, Vol. 47(1), pp. 21-51.
Babin JJ, Ghimire S, and Samarasinghe, M. (2020). "How has the Introduction of the Euro Impacted the Trade Performance of the Eurozone? Evidence from Disaggregated Exports and Imports Data" Academy of Economics and Finance Journal, Vol. 11, pp 1-10.
Babin JJ. (2020). "Linguistic Signaling, Emojis, and Skin Tone in Trust Games." PLoS ONE 15(6).
Babin, JJ. (2019). "Detecting Group Gender Stereotypes: Opinion-Mining vs. Incentivized Coordination." Journal of Economic Insight, Vol. 45 (1), pp. 21-42.
Working Papers:
"Does the Network Centrality of Sentiment Influence Markets?" (w/ Haritima Chauhan, under review).
"Chatbot or Humanaut? How the Source of Advice Impacts Behavior in One-shot Social Dilemmas" (w/ Haritima Chauhan).
"Intergenerational Human and GenAI Advice in Trust Games."
"Text Analysis of Subjects' Perceptions of One-shot Trust Games" (w/ Haritima Chauhan and J. Braxton Gately).
"Brand Name Identity: The Case of Misremembered Brand Design Elements" (w/ Shanna Breur-Hess & Craig Conrad, under review).
"Do Only Children Behave Differently in Social Dilemmas from those with Siblings?" (w/ Haritima Chauhan).
"Lying, Norms, and Machiavellianism" (w/ Haritima Chauhan).
Other:
Editor, Business and Decision-making Letters (formerly Journal of Contemporary Business Issues).
Special Editor, Frontiers in Behavioral Economics
Assistant Editor, Journal of Economic Insight
Referee service: Games and Economics Behavior; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Labour Economics; Economics and Human Biology; Psychology Bulletin; Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics; Journal of Economic Insight; PLoS One; Sustainability; Frontiers in Psychology; Sage Psychology; Applied Science; Games.
Press:
Times of Higher Education article (2021) "Attractive female academics rated as better teachers" highlighting "Beauty Premiums Among Academics." Economics of Education Review, Vol. 78(3).
BBC Radio Scotland Interview Oct. 25, 2021, highlighting "Beauty Premiums Among Academics."
Conferences/Seminar Presentations:
Federal Reserve Bank of New York (BEEMA7), 2023
Economic Science Association North American Meetings, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
UPenn Norms and Behavioral Change, 2022
Johns Hopkins Univ. - London School of Economics Conference on Behavioral Economics & Insights on Covid-19, 2021
Midwest Economics Association Conference, 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019
Southern Economic Association Meetings, 2019, 2018, 2017
Missouri Valley Economics Association Conference, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
Illinois Economic Association, DePaul University, 2023, 2022, 2021
Northern Illinois University, St. Lawrence University, The University of Houston, Mississippi State University, The University of Memphis, The University of Iowa
Teaching Experience:
Instructor (face to face, online, hybrid, and Livestream):
Price Theory (Graduate), 2019 - present, Western Illinois University
Behavioral Economics, (Graduate), 2023 - present, WIU
Sports Analytics (Honors), 2021, WIU
Game Theory and Economic Behavior (Graduate), 2018 - present, WIU
Economics for Managers (MBA), 2017 - present, WIU, Christian Brothers University
Introduction to Econometrics (Graduate), 2018, WIU
Game Theory (Honors College), 2017 - 2021, WIU
Intermediate Microeconomics/Price Theory (Undergraduate), 2019 - 2022, WIU
Principles of Microeconomics (Undergraduate), 2016 - 2019, WIU, Christian Brothers University, The University of Memphis
Introduction to Macroeconomics (Undergraduate), 2016, Christian Brothers University, The University of Memphis
Student Research, Curriculum Development, and Support:
Graduate Advisor, MS-Quantitative Economics program, 2022-present
Master's thesis chair for Gabriela Galindos Rubio, 2024; Janvi Patel, 2024; Steven Kistler, 2023; Pawonee Khadka, 2021 (placement: Univ of Alabama Ph.D.); Geraldine Guarin, 2020 (placement: Univ of Houston Ph.D.)
Master's thesis committee for LB Radelia, 2024; Jeff Valbrun, 2022; Joshua De La Breure, 2021; Schylur Bucher, 2021; Mohammed Aldawsari, 2018
Dissertation committee member for Dr. Dariya Ainekova, Univ. of Memphis Economics, 2018-19
Adjunct Graduate Faculty, The University of Memphis, 2018 - 22
Podium judge, Undergraduate Research Forum, WIU, 2019
Supervised 22 Honors student contract projects, 2016-21
CITR Best Practices in Online Teaching Course, 2018
Content and Text Reviewer, MacMillian Economics, Summer 2017; Knewton for Economics, pilot program, 2017
Judge and Moderator, National Conference for Undergraduate Research, 2017
ADA and Accessibility Coordinator, Fogelman College of Business and Economics, 2016-17
STEM majors “Math boot camp,” The University of Memphis, 2013-14, Mathematics Instructor/mentor
References:
Dr. Tara Feld, Assoc. Dean, College of Business and Technology, 101 Stipes, Western Illinois University, TN-Feld@wiu.edu
Dr. Weiguo (Patrick) Fan, Henry B. Tippie Excellence Chair Professor in Analytics, The University of Iowa, S262 Pappajohn Business Building, weiguo-fan@uiowa.edu
Dr. Haritima Chauhan, School of Accounting, Finance, Economics, and Decision Sciences, 430L Stipes, Western Illinois University, hs-chauhan@wiu.edu
Dr. Andrew Hussey, Department of Economics, 423 FAB, The University of Memphis, ajhussey@memphis.edu
Dr. William T. Smith, Chair, Department of Economics, 400 FAB, The University of Memphis, wtsmith@memphis.edu
Software/Programming Experience:
Stata, R, Python, SQL, Orange, Power BI, oTree, Tableau, Qualtrics
Service:
Council on Admission, Graduation, and Academic Standards (CAGAS), 2022-present
WIU Graduate Council, 2022-23
AFED Departmental Personnel Committee, 2023-24
WIU Student Judicial and Conduct Board, 2019 - present
WIU Faculty Mentoring Program, 2022-present
CBT Search Committees: Associate Dean, 2021; Dean, 2022
Faculty Search Committees: Decision Sciences tenure track 2018 (co-chair), Finance Unit B 2021, Accounting tenure track (chair) 2021, Economics Micro tenure track (chair) 2022; Economics Micro tenure track (chair) 2023; Economics Macro tenure track (chair) 2023
ECON Graduate Curriculum Committee, 2018 - present (co-chair since 2023)
Macomb Community Development and Law Enforcement Walk-through, 2022
Judge, Macomb City Small Business Competition, 2024
MBA Advisory Committee, College of Business and Technology, WIU, 2018 - 2023 (co-chair 2022)
CBT Academic Integrity Committee (chair) 2019-present
Business Analytics Committee, 2020-present
AFED Assessment Committee, 2020 - present
University Honors Council, 2018 - 2021
WIU President's Round Table, 2018
Explore Western, Discover Western faculty volunteer 2018 - present
AFED Academic Integrity and Scholarship Committee, 2020 - present
Economics Curriculum and Assessment Committee (chair), 2018 - present
Departmental Graduate Seminar Coordinator, 2018 - present
EDS Committee on Online Distance Education Standards, Best Practices, Program Delivery and Quality Assurance, 2017 - present
Strategic Planning Committee, College of Business and Technology, WIU, 2017-2018
University of Memphis Graduate School Recruitment Advisor, 2013-16