Ryan Sullivan

Dr. Ryan Sullivan, Associate Professor, received a Ph.D. in Economics from Syracuse University in 2010. Dr. Sullivan joined the faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School in that same year and has taught a variety of topics related to cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis, marginal reasoning, budgeting, finance, and labor economics. His research interests include program cost-benefit analyses, value of statistical life estimation, and public finance. He has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Contemporary Economic Policy, Demography, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, National Tax Journal, Public Budgeting and Finance, Public Finance Review, and Risk Analysis, among others. His work has been featured in such prominent outlets as The Economist, Forbes, Foreign Affairs, Time Magazine, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, and The Wall Street Journal. He served as a soldier in the U.S. Army National Guard from 1998 to 2006.