Eric Hoyt

Curriculum Vitae

Eric Hoyt will be starting as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Stockton University in the Fall 2021 semester.

For the 2020-2021 academic year, he worked as a Visiting Professor of Economics at Grand Valley State University, teaching introductory courses on macroeconomics and microeconomics, as well as an Adjunct Instructor of Inequality and Poverty at St. John's University in Spring 2021.

During 2018-2020, he completed a two-year post doc as the Research Director of the Center for Employment Equity at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he conducted empirical analyses using restricted-access EEO-1 data obtained from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). He also oversaw the work of research assistants, coordinated grant activity, and identified significant changes and trends for online interactive visualizations.

During 2017-2018, he worked as a visiting scholar in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University, assisting research on the effect of piece rate on worker health which resulted in a paper published in Public Health in March of 2020. He also taught courses on quantitative research methods and economic theory for policy and planning masters students.

Eric was a teaching assistant for courses on microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, money and banking, political economy of the environment, industrial organization, and the economics of cooperatives during his PhD studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Eric’s research interests include labor economics, environmental economics, law and economics, and economic history. His dissertation focuses on the impact of state adoption and restriction of wrongful discharge laws, a court-based form of employment protection in the U.S., on union density (currently received a revise and resubmit for a paper from this chapter at Industrial and Labor Relations Review), wages (currently received a revise and resubmit on a paper of this chapter from Industrial Relations), job tenure, and on-the-job training.

Eric received his BA in economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and completed his PhD in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in September 2018. He has served as a student representative on the governing board of the Workers’ Rights Consortium, an international labor rights monitoring organization, as sergeant-at-arms on the executive board of UAW Local 2322, and conducted research as a summer intern with the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. and as part of the first ever U.S. census of cooperative enterprises with the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives in 2010-2011.