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I was born
and raised on the Big
Island of Hawaii. In 1989, I graduated from Konawaena
High School and subsequently moved to Honolulu, Oahu where I attended the
University of Hawaii at Manoa. Although I began college
with the intention of studying mathematics, I soon found that my true interest
was in economics. In 1993, I graduated (with distinction) from the
University of Hawaii at Manoa with a B.A. in Economics. The following
fall, I started my graduate studies in Economics. In 1996, I earned an M.A. in Economics from
the University of Southern California and then my Ph.D. in Economics
also from USC in December of 2002.
In the fall of
2000, I moved to Waco, Texas to work in the Economics Department of Baylor University where I am currently Professor
of Economics and Holder of the Ben H. Williams Professorship in Economics. I am an Associate Editor for the Southern
Economic Journal and am on the Editorial Board for the International Review of Economics Education. In the past (2009-2016), I served on the Committee on Economic
Education of the American Economic
Association including serving on the program committee for the
Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (CTREE) and chairing
the program committee for the 2013 CTREE.
I also served an Associate Editor for the Journal of Economic Education
(2011-2017). And
in 2016, I was awarded the Kenneth G. Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award.
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