Gary A. Hoover

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.