Curricula Vitae in Moore Sch - Economics

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Janice Breuer Bass Professor	International Economics, Econometrics, Price and Wage Determination	I am a Professor of Economics at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. My primary research interests are exchange rates, financial crises, institutions, economic growth, and applied time series econometrics. I have recently become interested in behavioral economics and its foundations for macroeconomic growth.
McKinley Blackburn Professor	Wage structure, Income inequality, Economics demography	McKinley L. Blackburn is the James A. Morris Professor of Economics. Dr. Blackburn's current research interests lie in three areas: (1) the effects of minimum wages on employment and related outcomes; (2) the appropriate method for estimating the effects of individual characteristics on their wages; and (3) bank behavior in home mortgage markets.
Philip Scott Brookins Associate Professor	examines how individuals and groups behave in contests when they are information-constrained, how individuals behave when competing as part of a team composed of heterogeneously talented members	Philip Brookins is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business. His research involves the use of game-theoretic techniques to model and characterize behavior in competitive settings, such as contests and tournaments, and the use of experimental methods to test the validity of such models. In particular, he examines how individuals and groups behave in contests when they are information-constrained.
Jessica Hedrich Brown Assistant Professor	economics of the child care market	Jessica H. Brown is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2019. Her research interests are labor economics and public economics. Her current research projects focus primarily on the economics of the child care market. She currently teaches econometrics.
Geoffrey Carr Clinical Assistant Professor	Modeling macroeconomic labor dynamics over business cycles	Geoffrey B. Carr holds B.S. degrees in mathematics and economics from the University of Wyoming. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia in 2022 and joined the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business in the same year.
Dr. Sarah Isa Carroll Clinical Associate Professor	Microeconomics, Economics of Personal Finance, International Finance and Trade	Sarah I. Carroll holds a B.Sc. in Economics from Philipps University of Marburg in Germany, a M.Sc. in Economics from Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen and a Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She joined the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business in 2017
Bentley Coffey Clinical Assistant Professor		Bentley Coffey is a Department of Economics Clinical Assistant Professor for the Darla Moore School of Business.
Jason DeBacker Associate Professor		Jason M. DeBacker is an assistant professor in the Dept of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business. His research interests lie in the areas of public finance and macroeconomics. He published papers on these topics in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Law & Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and other outlets. From 2009 to 2012, he worked as a financial economist in the Office of Tax Analysis at the U.S. Dept of Treasury.
John M. Gordanier Clinical Professor	Labor Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Applied Economics	John Gordanier joined the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business in 2007 after spending one year as a visiting assistant professor at Amherst College. His research interests are in personnel economics, labor economics and industrial organization. He is currently a member of the advisory panel for the Law Firm's Working Group, a cross-disciplinary group of researchers studying empirical aspects of law firms.
Dr. William R Hauk, Jr. Associate Professor	International trade, political economics, economic growth	William R. Hauk is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. His research interests lie in the areas of international trade, political economics, economic growth, and applied econometrics.
Dr. Joshua Hadley Hess Clinical Associate Professor		Joshua H. Hess holds a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Physics from the University of Arkansas and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Colorado State University, specializing in Public Policy and Environmental and Resource Economics. He joined the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business in 2017.
Christian Jensen Associate Professor	Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics, Dynamic Policy Issues	Dr. Jensen teaches macroeconomics and money & banking at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. His research interests are in Macro and Monetary Economics, as well as in dynamic policy issues in general. His research has been published in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, International Journal of Central Banking, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Macroeconomics and Economics Letters.
Sang Min Lee Assistant Professor		Sang Min Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2023.
Alexander Matros Professor	Game Theory (Evolutionary, Experimental), Contests, Industrial Organization	Dr. Matros joined the Department of Economics in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina in 2010. His research interests include (evolutionary, experimental) game theory, contests, and industrial Organization.
Lois Miller Assistant Professor
Carlos Molina Guerra (Molina) Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Orgul Demet Ozturk Department Chair/Professor	Health Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education	My research interests are in applied microeconomics fields, specifically labor economics and health economics. I have recently published on effects of SNAP program on health and education outcomes, effect of food related interventions on cognitive performance and lunch line design on healthy food choice. I have several ongoing projects that analysis education program and policy effects on short and long run student academic and crime and social program dependency other outcomes.
Luis Felipe Saenz Munoz Assistant Professor		Luis Felipe Sáenz is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in May of 2018, and a M.A and B.S. in economics from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá (Colombia). From 2010 to 2012, he was a research fellow at the research department of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC.
Deniz Sanin Assistant Professor	explore the impact of government policies and laws on female employment and domestic violence	Deniz Sanin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Georgetown University in May 2022. Between 2021 and 2022, she was also a research fellow in the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research interests are development and labor economics with a focus on gender.
Professor Tamara Sheldon Associate Professor	Environmental Economics, Energy Economics, Climate Change	Tamara Sheldon is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego in June of 2015. Her research interests include environmental and energy economics and how these fields interact with public policy. Her current research projects relate to climate change and adoption of plug-in electric vehicles.
Stephen P. Slice Senior Lecturer	Essentials of Economics, Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics	Steve Slice is a Lecturer in the Economics Department at the Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. He worked 32 years with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the Farmers Home Administration/Farm Service Agency applying economic principles in lending money to farmers all across South Carolina.
Danna Kang Thomas Assistant Professor	explore the economics of drug legalization and regulation	Danna Kang Thomas is an assistant professor of economics at the Moore School. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 2018. Her research interests lie at the intersection of the fields of industrial organization and public economics. In particular, her current research projects explore the economics of drug legalization and regulation. She teaches industrial organization and public economics.
Sarah Waldfogel Assistant Professor
Dr. Elizabeth Ann Watson Clinical Associate Professor	Economics	Elizabeth Watson is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Economics for the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina.
Lindsey Johanna Woodworth Associate Professor	Health economics	Lindsey Woodworth is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business. Prior to arriving at the University of South Carolina, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, Davis. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Florida in 2014. Her research is in health economics with a focus on issues related to U.S. emergency departments.
Dr. Yi Crystal Zhan Associate Professor	Labor economics, Economics of education, Applied econometrics	Yi Crystal Zhan is an assistant professor of Economics in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego in 2013. Dr. Zhan’s research interests lie in the fields of labor economics, economics of education, and applied econometrics. Her work particularly addresses topics related to immigration and ethnic disparities.