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Tisha Emerson

Contact Information

Email:  Tisha_Nakao@baylor.edu
Homepage:  https://sites.google.com/view/tishanakao/home
Fax:  (254) 710-6142
Mailing Address:  One Bear Place #98003
Waco, TX  76706
Office Location:  Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation 320.12

Office Hours

SPRING 2023
TR 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in person
W 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM via ZOOM

Educational Background

  • PHD - Economics, University Of Southern California
  • MA - Economics, University Of Southern California
  • BA - Economics, University Of Hawaii Manoa

Work Experience

  • Visiting Researcher, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (November 2022 - November 2022)
  • Hankamer Teaching Fellow, Baylor University (2022 - Present)
  • Higher Education Co-Chair for AP Macro Exam Development Committee, College Board (August 2021 - July 2022)
  • Visiting Professor, Colorado State University and Institute for Shipboard Education (January 2, 2017 - April 19, 2017)
  • Holder of the Ben H. Williams Professorship in Economics, Baylor University (2016 - 2022)
  • Visiting Associate Professor, University of Virginia and Institute for Shipboard Education (June 10, 2013 - August 22, 2013)
  • Professor of Economics, Baylor University (2013 - Present)
  • Visiting Associate Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa (July 2011 - August 2011)
  • Assoc. Dept. Chair for Undergraduate Programs, Baylor University (2007 - 2015)
  • Associate Professor of Economics, Baylor University (2007 - 2013)
  • Assistant Professor of Economics, Baylor University (2000 - 2007)
  • Lecturer, University of California, Long Beach (January 1, 2000 - May 31, 2000)
  • Lecturer, Loyola Marymount University (January 1, 1999 - December 31, 1999)
  • Lecturer, University of Southern California (June 1, 1997 - July 31, 1997)
  • Consultant, Rand Corporation (January 1, 1997 - December 31, 1997)

Awards and Honors

  • Light Your World Award, Phi Kappa Chi (April 2016)
  • Kenneth G. Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award, Southern Economic Association (2016)
  • Summer Sabbatical Award, Baylor University (2016)
  • Circle of Achievement, Mortar Board (December 2015)
  • Light Your World Award, Phi Kappa Chi (April 2015)
  • Saunders Award for Best Research Paper, National Association of Economic Educators (October 2014)
  • Best Paper Award, 2014 Clute Institute International Academic Conference (June 2014)
  • Elected to Membership in the Society of Economic Educators, Society of Economic Educators (March 2012)
  • Baylor Fellow, Baylor University (August 2011)
  • Baylor Horizons Faculty Grant Program, Baylor University (2002)
  • Baylor University Research Committee Grant, Baylor University (2001)
  • Dissertation Fellowship, University of Southern California College of Letters Arts and Sciences (1998)
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University of Southern California (1997)
  • Research Scholar, University of California at Los Angeles (1992)
  • Regent Scholar, University of Hawaii (1989)

Professional Memberships

  • American Economic Association
  • Association of Environmental & Resource Economists
  • Executive Board member, Association for Christian Economists
  • Mortar Board
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Southern Economic Association
  • Western Economic Association

Biography

Dr. Emerson was born and raised on the Big Island of Hawaii. In 1989, she graduated from Konawaena High School and subsequently moved to Oahu where she attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa. In 1993, Dr. Emerson graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a B.A. in economics. The following fall, she started her graduate studies in economics. In 1996, Dr. Emerson earned an M.A. in economics from the University of Southern California (USC) and then a Ph.D. in economics also from USC in December of 2002. Dr. Emerson’s research interests lie in the fields of environmental economics, economic education, and business ethics. She has published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals including Economic Inquiry, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Business Ethics. Dr. Emerson has taught courses at Baylor in environmental economics, international economics, intermediate microeconomic theory, and principles of microeconomics.
In the fall of 2000, Dr. Emerson moved to Waco, Texas to teach in the Economics Department of Baylor University where she is Professor of Economics and Holder of the Ben H. Williams Professorship in Economics.

Publications

Basic or Discovery Scholarship

"The High Costs of Large Enrollment Classes: Can Cooperative Learning Help?," Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 44, No. 3, (June 2018), pp. 455-474 (coauthors: Linda K English, KimMarie McGoldrick).

"The Gender Gap in Economics Degrees: An Investigation of the Role Model and Quantitative Requirements Hypotheses," Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 84, No. 3, (January 2018), pp. 898-911 (coauthors: KimMarie McGoldrick, John Siegfried).

"Classroom Experiments: Teaching Specific Topics or Promoting the Economic Way of Thinking?," Journal of Economic Education, The, Vol. 47, No. 4, (Fall 2016), pp. 288-299 (coauthors: Linda K English).

"Classroom Experiments: Is more more?," American Economic Review, (May 2016) (coauthors: Linda K English).

Teaching and Learning Scholarship

Review of The Mystery of the Invisible Hand, Spring 2016.

Basic or Discovery Scholarship

"Cooperative Learning and Personality Types," International Review of Economics Education, Vol. 21, (January 2016), pp. 21-29 (coauthors: Linda K English, KimMarie McGoldrick).

"Evaluating the Cooperative Component in Cooperative Learning: A Quasi-Experimental Study," Journal of Economic Education, The, Vol. 46, No. 1, (Winter 2015), pp. 1-13 (coauthors: Linda K English, KimMarie McGoldrick).

"A Tale of Trade-offs: Recent Evidence of the Impact of the Economy on Environmental Concern," Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 145, (July 2014), pp. 88-93 (coauthors: Stephen J. Conroy).

Teaching and Learning Scholarship

"Anyone? Anyone? A Guide to Submissions on Classroom Experiments," Journal of Economic Education, The, Vol. 45, No. 2, (April 2014), pp. 174-179.

Basic or Discovery Scholarship

"Women and the Choice to Study Economics," Journal of Economic Education, The, Vol. 43, No. 4, (Fall 2012), pp. 349-362 (coauthors: KimMarie McGoldrick, Kevin J. Mumford).

Teaching and Learning Scholarship

"Classroom Experiments in Economic Education," , February 2012 (coauthors: KimMarie McGoldrick, Gail Hoyt, Denise Hazlett).

"In-Class vs. Online Experiments: Is there a Difference?," Journal of Economic Education, The, Vol. 43, No. 1, (Winter 2012), pp. 4-18 (coauthors: Linda K English).

"Homework: To Require or Not? Online Graded Homework and Student Achievement," Perspectives on Economic Education Research, Vol. 7, No. 1, (Spring 2011), pp. 20-42 (coauthors: Kim Mencken).

Basic or Discovery Scholarship

"Importance of Religious Faith and Ethical Attitudes in Business," Journal of Religion and Business Ethics, Vol. 1, No. 2, (December 2010), pp. article 5 (coauthors: Thomas O'Brien, Scott Paeth, Patrick Flanagan, Elizabeth Collier, Joe McKinney).

"The Effects of Ethical Codes on Ethical Perceptions of Actions Toward Stakeholders," Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 97, No. 4, (December 2010), pp. 505-516 (coauthors: Joe McKinney, Mitchell J. Neubert).

Teaching and Learning Scholarship

"Do Classroom Experiments Affect the Number of Economics Enrollments and Majors?," International Review of Economics Education, Vol. 9, No. 2, (November 2010), pp. 42-58 (coauthors: William Bosshardt, Peter Davies, Ross Guest, Mike Watts, Beck Taylor).

"Online Faculty Instruction to Improve Interactive Teaching of Economics," , 2010 (coauthors: Michael Salemi, William Walstad, Mark Maier).

Basic or Discovery Scholarship

"Ethical Attitudes of Accounting Practitioners: Are Rank and Ethical Attitudes Related?," Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 91, No. 2, (January 2010), pp. 183-194 (coauthors: Stephen J. Conroy, Frank Pons).

Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship

"Testbank accompanying 9th edition of Principles of Microeconomics by Case, Fair, and Oster," (September 2008).

Basic or Discovery Scholarship

"Ethical Cycles and Trends: Evidence and Implications," Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 81, No. 4, (September 2008), pp. 905-911 (coauthors: Stephen J. Conroy).

"Ethical Attitudes of Accountants: Recent Evidence from a Practitioners' Survey," Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 71, No. 1, (March 2007), pp. 73-87 (coauthors: Stephen Conroy, Charles W. Stanley).

"Interactions Between Personality Type and the Experimental Methodology," Journal of Economic Education, The, Vol. 38, No. 1, (Winter 2007), pp. 18-35 (coauthors: Beck Taylor).

"Changing Ethical Attitudes: The Case of Enron and ImClone Scandals," Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 87, No. 2, (June 2006), pp. 395-410 (coauthors: Stephen J. Conroy).

"Business Ethics and Religion: The Role of Religiosity in Response to Ethical Situations," Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 50, No. 4, (April 2004), pp. 383-396 (coauthors: Stephen J. Conroy).

"Have Ethical Attitudes Changed?: An Intertemporal Comparison of the Ethical Perceptions of College Students in 1985 and 2001," Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 50, No. 2, (March 2004), pp. 167-176 (coauthors: Stephen J. Conroy).

"Comparing Student Achievement Across Experimental and Lecture-Oriented Sections of a Principles of Microeconomics Course," Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 70, No. 3, (January 2004), pp. 672-693 (coauthors: Beck Taylor).

"Income, Environmental Disamenity, and Toxic Releases," Economic Inquiry, Vol. 42, No. 1, (January 2004), pp. 166-178 (coauthors: Linwood Pendleton).

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