META BROWN

Curriculum Vitae

August 2023

 

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Columbus, OH 43210

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Ohio State University, Department of Economics, 2019-.

Associate Professor, Stony Brook University, Department of Economics, 2017-2019.

Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Research Group, 2011-2017.

Visiting faculty, University of Virginia Economics department, spring 2015.

Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Research Group, 2008-2011.

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Economics, 2001-2008.

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS  

Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Population Research, Ohio State University.

Research Fellow, Institute for Economic Equity, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2022-2023; Center for Household Financial Stability, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2020-2022.

Member, American Economic Association.   


EDUCATION  

Ph.D. Economics, New York University, 2001. Thesis committee: Flinn, Keane, Gale, Lagos, Jovanovic.

M.A.  Economics, New York University, 1999.

B.A.   Economics and English Literature honors dual major, Ohio State University, 1995.    


RESEARCH    

Publications

Brown, Meta, J. Michael Collins, and Stephanie Moulton, “Economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from credit and debt of older adults,” Journal of Pension Economics and Finance 2022, 1-19.


“Echoes of Rising Tuition in Students' Borrowing, Educational Attainment, and Homeownership in Post-Recession America,” with Zachary Bleemer, Donghoon Lee, Katherine Strair, and Wilbert van der Klaauw,  Journal of Urban Economics v. 122, March 2021.


“The Graying of American Debt,” with Zachary Bleemer, Donghoon Lee, and Wilbert van der Klaauw. In O.S. Mitchell and A. Lusardi (eds.), Remaking Retirement: Debt in an Aging Economy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020. 


“Understanding the Evolution of Student Loan Balances and Repayment Behavior: Do Institution Type and Degree Matter?” with Rajashri Chakrabarti, Wilbert van der Klaauw and Basit Zafar, Economic Policy Review, December 2019.

 

“Financial Education and the Debt Behavior of the Young,” with John Grigsby, Wilbert van der Klaauw, Jaya Wen, and Basit Zafar, Review of Financial Studies, 29(9): 2490-2522, September 2016.

 

“Do Referrals Lead to Better Matches? Evidence from a Firm’s Employee Referral System,” with Elizabeth Setren and Giorgio Topa, Journal of Labor Economics, 34(1): 161-209, January 2016.

 

“Do We Know What We Owe? A Comparison of Borrower- and Lender-Reported Consumer Debt,” with Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee and Wilbert van der Klaauw, Economic Policy Review, 21(1): 19-44, October 2015.

 

“Stepping stone or quicksand? The role of consumer debt in the U.S. geography of economic mobility,” with Matt Mazewski, in Economic Mobility: Research and Ideas on Strengthening Families, Communities, and the Economy. A. Brown, D. Buccholz, D. Davis, & A. Gonzalez, eds. 2016.

 

“How Much Student Debt is Out There?” with Jesse Bricker, Simona Hannon, and Karen Pence, FEDS Notes 2015-08-07, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, 2015.

 

“The Impact of Housing Markets on Consumer Debt: Credit Report Evidence from 1999 to 2012,” with Sarah Stein and Basit Zafar, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 47(S1): 175-213, March/April 2015.

 

"Measuring Student Debt and its Performance," with Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Joelle Scally, and Wilbert van der Klaauw. In Student Loans and the Dynamics of Debt, Brad Hershbein and Kevin M. Hollenbeck, eds. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, pp. 37-52, 2015.

 

“Student Debt Growth and the Repayment Progress of Recent Cohorts,” The American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review, 23(1): 331-346, Winter 2015.

 

“The Financial Crisis at the Kitchen Table: Recent Trends in Household Debt and Credit,” with Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee and Wilbert van der Klaauw, Current Issues in Economics and Finance, 19(2): 1-10, 2013.

 

 “A New Test of Borrowing Constraints for Education,” with John Karl Scholz and Ananth Seshadri, Review of Economic Studies, 79(2): 511-538, April 2012.

 

“Real-Time Search in the Laboratory and the Market,” with Christopher J. Flinn and Andrew Schotter, American Economic Review, 101(2), April 2011.

 

“Informal Care and the Division of End-of-Life Transfers,” Journal of Human Resources, 41(1): 191-219, Winter 2006.

 

Working Papers and Papers in Submission

"US Families' Changing Responses to College Costs: Less Borrowing, More Co-residence," with Zachary Bleemer, Donghoon Lee, and Wilbert van der Klaauw, August 2023.


On the Edge: Social Safety Net Generosity and High-Cost Borrowing during the COVID Pandemic,” with Lawrence Berger, Rachel Dwyer, Jason Houle, Stephanie Moulton, and J. Michael Collins, February 2023, revise & resubmit.


“Family Law Effects on Divorce, Fertility and Child Investment,” with Christopher Flinn and Joseph Mullins, most recent version June 2023, revise & resubmit.

 

“Personal Bankruptcy Protection and Household Debt,” with Felipe Severino, December 2020, revise & resubmit.


"Economic Security of Older Adults during the COVID-19 Crisis: Early Data to Inform Research and Policy," with J. Michael Collins and Stephanie Moulton, University of Madison-Wisconsin RDRC working paper WI20-Q2, 2020.


“Tuition, Jobs, or Housing: What’s Keeping Millennials at Home?,” with Zachary Bleemer, Donghoon Lee, and Wilbert van der Klaauw, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports 700, first draft April 2014, latest version June 2017. 

 

Some Work in Progress

"Family support for young workers through job loss and social crisis: New insights from matched administrative and credit data," with Rachel Dwyer, Stephanie Moulton, and Sungmin Park. 


“Household Formation and Inequalities in Financial Coping During the COVID19 crisis: Building Demographic Insight with New Credit Report Data,” with Rachel Dwyer and Stephanie Moulton.


"How Does the Death of a Partner During the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect the Economic Security of the Surviving Older Adult? Evidence From Credit Panel and Labor Force Participation Data," with Donald Haurin, Cazilia Loibl, Stephanie Moulton, and Matthew Pesavento.


Social Media

Older Americans Faced Early Pandemic Credit Constraints,” with Lowell Ricketts, J. Michael Collins, and Stephanie Moulton, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Equity Insights, July 14, 2022. 


“Puerto Rico's Evolving Household Debts,” with Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Joelle W. Scally, Magali Solimano, and Wilbert van der Klaauw, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Liberty Street Economics Blog, August 2016.

 

“The Graying of American Debt,” with Donghoon Lee, Joelle Scally, and Wilbert van der Klaauw, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Liberty Street Economics Blog, February 2016.

 

“Just Released: Household Debt Grew Slowly in 2015 as Mortgage Balances Stayed Flat,” with Donghoon Lee, Andrew Haughwout, Joelle Scally, and Wilbert van der Klaauw, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Liberty Street Economics Blog, February 2016. 

 

“Payback Time? Measuring Progress on Student Debt Repayment,” with Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Joelle Scally, and Wilbert van der Klaauw, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Liberty Street Economics Blog, February 2015.


“Looking at Student Loan Defaults Through a Larger Window,” with Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Joelle Scally, and Wilbert van der Klaauw, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Liberty Street Economics Blog, February 2015.


“The Student Loan Landscape,” with Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Joelle Scally, and Wilbert van der Klaauw

Federal Reserve Bank of New York Liberty Street Economics Blog, February 2015.


“Just Released: Student Loan Delinquency Rate Defies Overall Downward Trend in Household Debt and Credit Report for Fourth Quarter 2014,” with Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Joelle Scally, and Wilbert van der Klaauw, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Liberty Street Economics Blog, February 2015.


“Household Formation Within the 'Boomerang' Generation,” with Zachary Bleemer, Donghoon Lee, and Wilbert van der Klaauw, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Liberty Street Economics Blog, February 2015.

 

“What Americans (Don’t) Know about Student Loan Collections,” with Basit Zafar, Zachary Bleemer, and Wilbert van der Klaauw, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Liberty Street Economics Blog, June 2014.

 

“Just Released: Young Student Loan Borrowers Remained on the Sidelines of the Housing Market in 2013,” with Sydnee Caldwell and Sarah Sutherland, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Liberty Street Economics Blog, May 2014.

 

 “Young student borrowers retreat from housing and auto markets,” with Sydnee Caldwell, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Liberty Street Economics Blog, April 2013.

 

“Just Released: Press Briefing on Household Debt and Credit,” with Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Joelle Scally, and Wilbert van der Klaauw, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Liberty Street Economics Blog, February 2013.

 

“Grading Student Loans,” with Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Maricar Mabutas, and Wilbert van der Klaauw, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Liberty Street Economics Blog, March 2012.

 

“Have Consumers Been Deleveraging?,” with Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee and Wilbert van der Klaauw, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Liberty Street Economics Blog, inaugural post, March 2011.

  

Older papers

 “A New Test of Borrowing Constraints for Education,” with John Karl Scholz and Ananth Seshadri, working paper version NBER w14879.

 “Real-Time Search in the Laboratory and the Market,” with Christopher J. Flinn and Andrew Schotter, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports 410, December 2009.

 “Investment in Child Quality over Marital States,” with Christopher J. Flinn, Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Paper 1320-07.

 “Tied Transfers,” with Maurizio Mazzocco, John Karl Scholz, and Ananth Seshadri, 2011.

 “End-of-Life Transfers and the Decision to Care for a Parent,” previous version July 2004, current version February 2007. 

“Tax Planning and Behavioral Motives for Giving via Trusts in the Health and Retirement Study,” with Misuzu Azuma (very preliminary draft available from Misuzu, mazuma@grips.ac.jp).

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS


Bruce Weinberg (PI), Hanbat Jeong, Kurt Lavetti, and Meta Brown (Co-Investigators), “The health and economic impacts of COVID-19 and policy responses.” National Institute on Aging [U01AG07654901]. 09/30/2021 - 05/31/2026. Multi-year total $2,333,719.

 

Stephanie Moulton (PI), Meta Brown, Donald Haurin, and Caezilia Loibl (Co-Investigators). “How does the death of a partner during the COVID-19 pandemic affect the economic security of the surviving older adult? Evidence from credit panel and labor force participation data.” University of Wisconsin Center for Financial Security RDRC, SSA. 9/30/2022-9/29/2023. $145,484.

 

Stephanie Moulton (PI), Meta Brown, Donald Haurin, and Caezilia Loibl (Co-Investigators).  “Improving Access to Home Equity Borrowing for Older Adults.” Huntington Bank. 5/31/2022-5/31/2024. $300,000.

 

Rachel Dwyer (PI), Meta Brown, and Stephanie Moulton (Co-Investigators), “Inequalities in debt and financial coping during the COVID-19 crisis: New insights from linked credit report, alternative financial service, and state administrative data.” Russell Sage Foundation, University of Wisconsin. 09/01/2021 - 12/31/2022. $93,655. Investigators under associated funding Lonnie Berger, J. Michael Collins, and Jason Houle.

 

Stephanie Moulton (PI), Meta Brown, and Caezilia Loibl (Co-Investigators), “The COVID-19 pandemic and older adults' employment and economic security: Insights from earnings and credit panel data.” University of Wisconsin (through its SSA-funded Center for Financial Security RDRC). 09/30/2021-09/29/2022. $143,407.

 

Meta Brown (PI), Rachel Dwyer, and Stephanie Moulton (Co-Investigators), “Household formation and inequalities in financial coping in the COVID19 crisis: Building demographic insight with new credit report panel data.” National Institute on Child Health and Development, via the Institute for Population Research at The Ohio State University (NIH center grant P2CHD058484). Sarah Hayford Co-Investigator. 06/01/2020-02/28/2023. $132,600.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York Performance Excellence Award, December 2009, December 2011; On-the-spot Award March 2013; FRBNY Vault Propel Award November 2015.

Elizabeth Waters Residence Hall Distinguished Teaching Award, 2008.

National Science Foundation grant, “Family Law and Investment in Children,” (with Christopher Flinn), August 2005- July 2008.

National Institute on Aging (R01) grant, “Theory and Evidence on Intergenerational Transfers,” (with Maurizio Mazzocco, John Karl Scholz, and Ananth Seshadri), September 2003-August 2007.

Boston College Center for Retirement Research, Steven H. Sandell Grant Program for Junior Scholars in Retirement Research, “Social Security Reform and the Exchange of Bequests for Elder Care,” June 2002-May 2003.

Graduate School Research Committee Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005.

Maude P. and Milton J. Shoemaker Fellow in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001-2002.

Phi Beta Kappa, 1995; National Merit Finalist, 1991.


SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS


2024 (upcoming): Pennsylvania Economic Association conference keynote speaker, Slippery Rock University


2023: Midwest Economic Association meetings in Cleveland – two organized sessions, OSU economics (micro lunch)

 

2022: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Institute for Economic Equity, OSU economics (micro lunch), OSU Institute for Population Research, OSU TEDx, ASSA annual meeting (discussion)

 

2021: DePaul University (Kellstadt Graduate School of Business), University of Wisconsin Center for Financial Security RDRC


2020: ASSA annual meeting (discussion), University at Buffalo (SUNY) (postponed) 

2019: ASSA annual meeting (discussion), Pension Research Council 2019 conference at Wharton, Stony Brook University Center for the Study of Inequalities, Social Justice, and Policy, University of Wisconsin Center for Financial Security Fall Researcher Workshop (discussion), Midwest Econometrics Group Mentoring Workshop at Ohio State University (mentor), Donghoon Lee will present coauthored work at the Urban Economics Association meeting at FRB Philadelphia.

2018: ASSA annual meeting (discussion), University of Rochester, Southern Economic Association annual meeting.

2017: Ohio State University, Stony Brook University alumni association.

2016: ASSA annual meeting (discussion), Stony Brook University, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, National Association of Realtors 2016 Regulatory Issues Forum, Ohio State’s Department of Human Sciences.

2015: Federal Reserve Board of Governors 2015 Economic Mobility Conference, University of Virginia Darden School of Business, University of Virginia Department of Economics, NYU 2015 Economics Department Alumni Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate Conference on Housing Affordability, Washington University in St. Louis, CUNY Queens College; Jo Mullins presented coauthored work at the 2015 Society for Economic Dynamics, Wilbert van der Klaauw presented coauthored work at the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum and elsewhere. Discussions: AEA, NBER Household Finance meeting in Washington, NBER Summer Institute, System Macro.

2014: AEA 2014 annual meeting, Eastern Economic Association annual meeting, Association for Education Finance and Policy annual meeting, FRB St. Louis youth balance sheets conference, Federal Reserve System Applied Microeconomics conference at FRB Minneapolis, Georgetown Law American Bankruptcy Institute conference, Urban Institute, NBER summer institute, Goldman Sachs Millennials and Housing Day, Pew Charitable Trusts Senate Economic Mobility Caucus briefing, FDIC Consumer Research Symposium, American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Symposium on Bankruptcy and Education.

2013: UNC-Chapel Hill; MEA and EEA meetings; NYU Alumni Conference; Postsecondary National Policy Institute’s (PNPI) Student Financial Aid Seminar; PNPI Debt and Repayment Briefing; FRB Cleveland Policy Summit on Housing, Human Capital, and Inequality; National Council of Higher Education Resources 2013 Legislative Conference; FRB Philadelphia New Perspectives on Consumer Behavior in Credit and Payment Markets; FRB Dallas/IMF/JMCB Housing, Stability, and the Macroeconomy; FRB Kansas City.

2012: Becker-Friedman Institute INET Markets group meeting (Chicago Fed), Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

2011: ICREA-MOVE Family Economics conference, Eastern Economic Association meetings, Midwest Economic Association meetings, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Federal Reserve Bank of NY.

2010: Invited speaker, Economic Relations Between Children and Parents conference, Queen’s University.

2009: Eastern Economic Association, CUNY Graduate Center.

2008: Queen’s University; McMaster University; Purdue University; Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Federal Reserve Board of Governors; University of South Carolina; Midwest Economic Association annual meeting; Eastern Economic Association annual meeting; Federal Reserve System Applied Microeconomics conference.

2007: American Economic Association meetings; University of Rochester; University of Western Ontario; Iowa State University.

2006: Northern Illinois University; inaugural meeting of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHE) in Madison, WI; Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE); Yale; Georgetown; Wisconsin.

2005: NIA/NICHD Intergenerational Research Workshop; CDHA workshop, University of Wisconsin; ESPE 2005 Annual Conference; Conference on Structural Models in Labor, Aging, and Health, Duke/UNC; Minnesota Applied Micro Workshop; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Northwestern.

2004: Midwest Economic Association annual meeting; Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; Numerically Intensive Economic Policy Analysis (NIEPA) workshop at Queen’s University; HEC Montreal; University of North Carolina; Cornell; Johns Hopkins; University of Missouri; University of Michigan

2003: SSA Retirement Research Consortium; New York University; University of Virginia; Johns Hopkins.

2002: Ohio State University; Department of Actuarial Science, Risk Management and Insurance, University of Wisconsin; Center for Demography and Ecology Seminar, University of Wisconsin; Institute for Research on Poverty Summer Research Workshop, University of Wisconsin; Public Economics Workshop, University of Wisconsin; American Economic Association meetings.

2001: North American Econometric Society Meetings; Eastern Economic Association Conference; Vanderbilt University; University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of Colorado-Boulder; State University of New York-Albany; University of Quebec at Montreal; Concordia University; University of Pittsburgh; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve; University of Pennsylvania (Wharton); University of California-San Diego; Syracuse University.

2000: New York University.


REFEREEING

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics; American Economic Journal: Economic Policy; American Economic Review; The B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy; Binational Science Foundation; Current Issues; Eastern Economic Journal; Economic Development and Cultural Change; Economic Inquiry; Economic Journal; European Economic Review; International Economic Review; Journal of Applied Econometrics; Journal of Banking and Finance; Journal of Business and Economic Statistics; Journal of Consumer Affairs; Journal of Econometrics; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Journal of Human Capital; Journal of Human Resources; Journal of Labor Economics; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; Journal of Population Economics; Journal of Public Economics; Journal of Risk & Insurance; Labour Economics; National Science Foundation; National Tax Journal; Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics; Population Research and Policy Review; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Review of Economic Studies; Review of Economics of the Household; Review of Income and Wealth; Social Security Bulletin; Southern Economic Journal.


MANAGEMENT AND SERVICE

AEA – CSWEP mentor 2023

CFPB – Expert Panel: Older Adults and Debt, 2022-23; CFPB 5th Research Conference on Consumer Finance–Scientific committee 2021

Ohio State – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee (DEIC) Co-chair fall 2020, Chair 2021-; Provost’s RAISE Initiative economics search chair 2022-23, RAISE economics search committee member 2023-24; RAISE sociology search committee member 2023-24; Chair’s Advisory Committee 2021-23; Graduate Committee 2020-2023; Applied microeconomics seminar organizer spring 2020, spring 2021; Micro lunch organizer fall 2022; faculty advisor, Graduate Women in Economics, 2020-; faculty committee, Fisher College of Business Ph.D. Conference on Real Estate 2020, 2021, 2022; Distinguished Scholar Award nomination committee 2020; Monda Chair search P&T committee 2020; Economics department search committee member and Diversity Advocate, 2019-20;

Stony Brook – economics recruiting committee 2017-2018, placement committee 2017-2018 & 2018-19, seminar chair 2017-2018

NYU - Christopher J. Flinn conference organizing committee 2016

Federal Reserve Bank of New York – 2015 organizing committee of CFPB-FRBNY student loan convening, 2013-2015 Micro function visitor coordinator, 2013, 2014, & 2015 Math x Econ presenter/participant, 2013 System Applied Micro Conference program committee, Real-side Research Associate Recruiter 2011-2012, Macroeconomic and Monetary Studies/Microeconomic Studies/Regional Analysis Research Associate Coordinator September 2010-September 2011, Coeditor of Economic Policy Review 2009-2011 & 2013-2017, Microeconomic and Regional Studies Ph.D. recruiting coordinator 2008-2009, Human Resources liaison 2008-2010. 

 

ADVISING

As primary advisor:

Misuzu Azuma, Hau Chyi, Matthew Kim, Ping-Chang Lee, Michael Malcolm, Weibo Zhou, Alan Lujan, Sunhee Yu.

As committee member (not exhaustive):

Sungmin Park, Jing Feng, Sooa Ahn, Kyoung Hoon Lee, Vanessa Ordonez, Xuechao Qian, Yang Yang, Yaming Cao, Vanessa Ordonez, Yijiao Liu, Noor Al Mesad, Molly Dahl, Ningning Guo, Joseph Guse, Sarah Hamersma, Kang Hyun-Jae, Hisam Kim, Matthew Kim, Young-Joo Kim, Yijiao Liu, Lauren Olsho, Shikha Rawat, Kamil Sicinski, Hugette Sun, Nathan Tefft, Jeff Traczinski, Seokjin Woo, Audra Wenzlow, Binzhen Wu.

New York Fed RAs (Ph.D. program, post-PhD appointment(s)):

Zachary Bleemer (UC Berkeley,  Opportunity Insights, Yale, Princeton), John Grigsby (U Chicago, Northwestern, Princeton), Megan Hunter (Stanford GSB, Boston College), Matt Mazewski (Columbia), Sarah Stein (Stanford GSB, Paradigm Strategy, Inc.), Katherine Strair (Columbia, Cornerstone Research), Jaya Wen (Yale, Harvard Business School).


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Ohio State:

            Economics 5850: Labor Economics (undergraduate) Spring 2020 enrollment 70, Spring 2021 enrollment ~90, Spring 2022 enrollment 85,     Spring 2023 enrollment 50

            Economics 8853: Labor Economics III (graduate) Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023

Stony Brook:

            Economics 321: Introduction to Econometrics Sprint 2017

            Economics 303: Intermediate Microeconomics Spring 2017

            Economics 522: Applied Econometrics (graduate) Fall 2017

Virginia:

            Economics 8310: Graduate Public Economics Spring 2015 (joint with John Pepper)

Wisconsin:

    Economics 101: Principles of Microeconomics Spring 2003 enrollment 391 & 387, Spring 2004 enrollment 460 x 2, Fall 2007 enrollment      444.

    Economics 441: Undergraduate Public Economics Spring 2002 enrollment ~50,  Fall 2007 enrollment 89.

    Economics 742: Graduate Public Economics Spring 2002 enrollment ~8, Spring 2003 enrollment 11.

    Economics 741: Graduate Public Economics Fall 2005 enrollment 10, Spring 2007 enrollment 8, Fall 2007 enrollment 8.

 

TEXT  

Instructor’s Manual for Microeconomics: A Modern Approach, Third Edition, with Andrew Schotter. Reading: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000.