Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics Derek Jones co-authored a chapter in the Handbook on the Economics of Reciprocity and Social Enterprise.

Assistant Professor of Economics Emily Conover recently published a paper co-authored with Dean Scrimgeour (Colgate University) in the Journal of Health Economics. The paper “Health consequences of easier access to alcohol: New Zealand evidence” evaluates the health effects of a reduction in New Zealand's minimum legal purchase age for alcohol from 20 to 18 years.

An essay co-authored by Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics Derek Jones was published in Pour une nouvelle mondialisation : le défi d’innover, a volume in the Social Innovation series published by the Presses de l’Université du Québec.

Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics of Ann Owen has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Eastern Economics Association (EEA).

The Chicago Sun-Times featured alumnus Kendall Weir ’12 and Professor of Economics Stephen Wu’s study, “The Effects of Character on NFL Draft Status and Subsequent Performance,” in an article discussing the upcoming National Football League draft and the prospects of Notre Dame linebacker Mante Te’o. New Jersey's largest news website, NJ.com, also devoted a column to the research.

Hamilton students enrolled in Steve Wu's Health Economics class, Alan Cafruny's International Political Economy class, and Herm Lehman's Intro. to Public Health classes were invited to meet and speak with Sacerdote Great Names speaker Dr. Bernard Kouchner in a small, informal group before the large public lecture held later in the evening.

Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Honorary Fellow at the London School of Economics Kenneth Minogue will give a lecture on his recent book titled The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life, on Wednesday, April 17, at 7 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium of the Taylor Science Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Filmmaker Kazim Oz will screen his latest documentary, “The Last Season: Shawaks,” on Sunday, April 14, at 6 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson Building’s Bradford Auditorium. The screening is sponsored by the economics department, and is free and open to the public.

A paper co-authored by Assistant Professor of Economics Emily Conover was recently published in the journal Economic Development and Cultural Change. The paper “Effects of Subsidized Health Insurance on Newborn Health in a Developing Country” estimates the effect of a rapid and considerable expansion of health insurance coverage in the 1990s in Colombia on newborn health.

In a Huffington Post essay titled “The New Washington Economics,” Government Professor P. Gary Wyckoff questioned the financial soundness of the sequester.  In the March 21 posting, he addressed the economic reasons why the sequester may be quite detrimental to the economy while not reducing the deficit significantly.