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  • Rising Treatment Costs Drive Health Care Spending

    Treatment Costs Drive Health Spending

    New comprehensive study also reveals increased
    disease cases have modest impact on spending growth.

  • International Economics MA

    International
    Economics MA

    Innovative new joint CAS-SIS program
    offers fast-track to specialization.

  • For the second year running, a team of AU economics students won the rigorous district Fed Challenge.

    Students Win
    Fed Challenge

    For the second year running, a team of AU economics
    students won the rigorous district Fed Challenge.

  • Fasules NSF

    Econ Grad Student
    Wins NSF Funding

    PhD candidate Megan Fasules gets NSF grant to study
    the connection between bankruptcy and Medicare.

  • Getting to the Core of Bankruptcy

    Getting to the
    Core of Bankruptcy

    Mary Hansen’s efforts to preserve court
    records have policy and academic uses.

Bulletins

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Mary HansenMary E. Hansen (with Bradley Hansen), “The Evolution of Garnishment and Wage Assignment Law in Illinois, 1880-1930.” Essays in Economic & Business History, May 2014.

Martha StarrMartha A. Starr, "Gender, added-worker effects, and the 2007–2009 recession: Looking within the household," Review of Economics of the Household, Forthcoming 2014.

Martha A. Starr, "Qualitative and mixed-methods research in economics: Surprising growth, promising future," Journal of Economic Surveys, Forthcoming 2014.

Martha A. Starr (with Forrest McCluer), "Using Difference in Differences to Estimate Damages in Healthcare Antitrust: A Case Study of Marshfield Clinic," International Journal of the Economics of Business, November 2013.

Thomas HustedThomas Husted (with David Nickerson) "Political Economy of Presidential Disaster Declarations and Federal Disaster Assistance,” Public Finance Review, January 2014.

Boris GershmanBoris Gershman "Envy in the Process of Development: Implications for Social Relations and Conflict," Economics of Peace and Security Journal, October 2013.

Robert M. FeinbergRobert M. Feinberg “Multimarket contact and export entry," Economics Letters, October 2013.


AU ECONOMISTS IN THE NEWS

Robert Lerman in The Wall Street Journal (4/27/14), "Apprenticeships Help Close the Skills Gap. So Why Are They in Decline?"

Robert Lerman on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (4/21/14), "Canada's Apprenticeship Problem" (appearance starts at about 14 minutes)

Robert A. Blecker in The Economist (1/04/14), "NAFTA at 20: Ready to Take Off Again?"


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