Makayla Palmer (Economics) and co-authors Mireille Jacobson, and Susan Enguidanos had their paper, “Advance Care Planning For Medicare Beneficiaries Increased Substantially, But Prevalence Remained Low,” featured in the Health Affairs’ April Issue: Access, ACA Spending, & More. The authors note that despite low advance care planning…

Katelin Gilbertson (The Lincy Institute, Brookings Mountain West, Economics) recently had her OpEd, "Nevada’s Broken Unemployment System Must be Fixed — Now," published in the Las Vegas Sun. Gilbertson discusses the need for Nevada to craft concrete solutions to address the failures of the Nevada Department of Employment, Training…

Mary Blankenship (The Lincy Institute, Brookings Mountain West, Economics, Chemistry) recently had a report published in the Brookings Institution blog, Up Front. The piece, Assessing the Social and Emotional Costs of Mass Shootings with Twitter Data, analyzes emoji and hashtag usage on Twitter after mass shootings and finds that society…

Jeff Waddoups (Economics) won the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) 2021 Susan C. Eaton Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner Award. The Eaton award is given annually to a member of LERA for achievements of distinction as both an academic and practitioner in the field of economics. Waddoups was selected because of his…

Hans Rawhouser (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) and Ian McDonough (Economics) published a paper with Chris Sutter (Miami), "Venture Acceleration and Entrepreneurial Growth in Central America," about accelerators supporting entrepreneurs in the most recent issue of the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. Using 24 months of…

Olivia Cheche (Political Science) and Peter Grema (Economics) presented their research at the 2021 Western Regional Honors Council Virtual Conference, last week. Cheche's research on "The Culture of Policing in Las Vegas" presents national and local data on disparities related to the racial, social, and fiscal aspects within the Las…

Nicholas Irwin (Economics) and co-author Mitchell Livy of California State University, Fullerton, recently published an article, "Days and Confused: Housing Price and Liquidity Response to New Local Public Schools" in the Journal of Real Estate Research (JRER). The paper explores the changes in housing price capitalization and…

Emir Malikov (Economics), together with Gudbrand Lien of the Inland Norway University, coauthored an article, "Proxy Variable Estimation of Multi-Product Production Functions," that has been accepted at the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, a flagship journal of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association.…

Nicholas Irwin (Economics) recently published an article entitled "Sunny days: Spatial spillovers in photovoltaic system adoptions" in Energy Policy. The article studies the diffusion of residential solar panels in an urban setting by exploring the influence of neighboring solar panel installations on one's own decision to…

Giorgio Canarella and Stephen M. Miller (both Economics & Center for Business and Economic Research) published their paper “Dynamic Asymmetric Optimal Portfolio Allocation between Energy Stocks and Energy Commodities: Evidence from Clean Energy and Oil and Gas Companies,” with Mahdi Ghaemi Asl, Kharazmi University, in Resources Policy.…

Nicholas Irwin (Economics) and co-author Mitchell Livy of California State University, Fullerton, recently published an article, "Measuring Environmental (Dis)amenity Value during a Pandemic: Early Evidence from Maryland," in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. This paper examines the changing valuation of…

Katelin Gilbertson (Economics, Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute) recently had her OpEd, "Clark County deserves a bigger slice of pizza" published in the Las Vegas Sun. Gilbertson proposes a long term solution to the recovery of Las Vegas' most prominent industry, live entertainment. Her piece discusses how Clark County should…