Gary A. Hoover
Assistant Dean for Faculty and Graduate Student Development, Associate Professor of Economics, and James I. Harrison Family Endowed Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow
Economics, Finance & Legal Studies
Office: 267 Alston Hall, 205-348-6033
- Specialty Areas:
- Public Policy Analysis, Income Distribution, Public Finance.
- Education:
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (B.A.), Washington University (M.A. and Ph.D.).
- Honors, Achievements and Affiliations:
- Dr. Hoover is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Research on Poverty and is a faculty mentor in the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program and the Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration Faculty Scholars Program. His articles have been published in Economics and Politics, Journal of Income Distribution, American Economic Review P&P, Journal of Labor Research, and the Eastern Economic Journal.
Publications
- Plagiarism and Its Impact on the Economics Profession." (With Daniel Arce and Walter Enders.) Bulletin of Economic Research.? Forthcoming.
- "Putting out Fires: An Examination of the Determinants of State Clean Indoor-Air law." (With Craig Gallet and Junsoo Lee.) Southern Economic Journal.? July 2006.
- "Group Welfare and the Formation of a Common Labor Market: Some Global Results." (With Paul Rothstein.) International Tax and Public Finance.? January 2006.
- "The Political Determinants of Federal Expenditure at the State Level." (With Paul Pecorino.) Public Choice. April 2005
- Poverty, Non-White Poverty, and the Sen Index. (With John Formby.) Review of Income and Wealth. December 2004.
- Whose Line Is It? Plagiarism in Economics. (With Walter Enders.) Journal of Economic Literature. June 2004.
- Differences in the Determinants of Elderly and Non-elderly Poverty. Research on Income Inequality. 2004.
- The Impact of Non-Revenue Maximizing Factors on State Level Cigarette Tax Rates. Contemporary Economic Policy. July 2003.
- The Effect of Robust Growth on Poverty: A Nonlinear Analysis. (With Walter Enders.) Applied Economics. June 2003.
- Privatization of Refuse Removal and Labor Costs. (With James Peoples.) Journal of Labor Research. Spring 2003.
- The Impact of Demographics on Policy Outcomes under Varying Institutional Frameworks. Economics and Politics. July 2002.
- Economic Growth and Poverty in the United States. (With John Formby.) Journal of Income Distribution. November 2001.
- Market Structure and Racial Earnings: Evidence from Displaced Workers. (With Jackie Agesa and Richard U. Agesa.) American Economic Review. May 2001.