The Department of Economics Faculty
The Department of Economics faculty are very active in research, having published in the leading applied and theoretical journals in economics. During the five years between 1992 and 1996, the economics faculty published seven books, eight edited conference volumes, 115 articles in refereed journals, and 48 chapters in books, in addition to numerous articles in proceedings of professional associations, technical reports, notes, comments, book reviews, etc.
The topics have included the determination of entrepreneurship, alcohol regulation and motor vehicle fatalities, ethnic and racial differences in education and earnings, the economic status of minorities, the impact of immigration on the skills and incomes of natives, the productivity of government activities, cost-effective control of urban smog, determinants of female occupational distribution, zoning and land values, federal deficits and national saving, economic analysis of oil prices, regional convergence and national income inequality, and price and concentration in hospital markets.
The Department of Economics is committed to teaching excellence. Economics faculty members have won numerous teaching awards, including four UIC Silver Circle Awards for Teaching Excellence, two College of Business Administrations Alumni Teaching Awards, one Honorable Mention from the National Awards Program for the Teaching of Economics from the Joint Council on Economic Education and two Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Awards.
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