Gary Hoover (economist)

Gary A. Hoover is Professor and Department Chair of the Economics Department at the University of Oklahoma,[1] and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy.[2] He has published extensively on race and inequality in the United States, and is a leading scholar on Plagiarism and other types of misconduct in the economics profession.[3][4]

For the founder of bookstore chain Bookstop and The Reference Press, see Gary Hoover.
Gary A. Hoover
NationalityAmerican
InstitutionUniversity of Alabama
University of Oklahoma
FieldEconomic Inequality, Ethics in the Economics Profession
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (BA) Washington University in St. Louis (PhD)
Websitehttps://sites.google.com/site/garyhoovereconomics

Education and early life

Hoover was raised in Milwaukee and joined the Army after high school. He used funding from the G.I. Bill to pay for his college education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he completed a B.A. degree in 1993, followed by M.A. and PhD degrees from Washington University in St. Louis in 1995 and 1998.[4]

Career

Hoover taught at the University of Alabama from 1998 until 2014, where he was a William White McDonald Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow from 2006 - 2014. He joined the University of Oklahoma as Department Chair of Economics in January 2015, and was appointed appointed a President's Associates Presidential Professorship at that university in 2017. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Economics, Race and Policy, and vice president of the Southern Economic Association.[5]

Selected works
  • Enders, Walter, Gary A. Hoover, and Todd Sandler. "The changing nonlinear relationship between income and terrorism." Journal of Conflict Resolution 60, no. 2 (2016): 195-225.
  • Compton, Ryan A., Daniel C. Giedeman, and Gary A. Hoover. "Panel evidence on economic freedom and growth in the United States." European Journal of Political Economy 27, no. 3 (2011): 423-435.
  • Enders, Walter, and Gary A. Hoover. "The Nonlinear Relationship Between Terrorism and Poverty." American Economic Review 102, no. 3 (2012): 267-72
  • Hoover, Gary A., and Paul Pecorino. "The political determinants of federal expenditure at the state level." Public Choice 123, no. 1-2 (2005): 95-113.
  • Hoover, Gary A. "Whose line is it? Plagiarism in economics." Journal of Economic Literature 42, no. 2 (2004): 487-493.

References
  1. "How does race fit into intro econ courses?". Marketplace. 2020-06-25. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  2. "Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy". Springer. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  3. "CSMGEP: Gary Hoover, co-chair". www.aeaweb.org. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  4. "CSMGEP Profiles--Gary Hoover: Enduring the Pain and Getting Through it: One Man's Path from the Boxing Ring to the Economics Profession". www.aeaweb.org. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  5. "SEA Officers | Southern Economic Association". Retrieved 2020-07-13.


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