The economics department at Colgate is ranked sixth by RePEc among all economics departments at liberal arts colleges in the United States.
Below is a list of recent publications by Colgate economics professors in leading economics journals:
Chan, N.W. and Globus-Harris, I. (2025) “Income Targeting in Consumer Energy Efficiency Programs.” Energy Economics, 143: 108249.
Higgins, C. Richard, and Irfan A. Qureshi. (2025) "Changes in central bank leadership and inflation dynamics." Southern Economic Journal 91.4: 1440-1473.
Klotz, Richard and Julia Berazneva. (2025) “Correlated Pollutants, Avoidance and Local Environmental Policy.” The Energy Journal, 46 (5).
Levere, Michael, David Wittenburg, and John T. Jones. (2025). “Can Changes in Disability Insurance Work Incentives Influence Beneficiary Employment? Evidence from the Promoting Opportunity Demonstration.” Journal of Public Economics, Volume 245.
Kim, Jiyoon, Levere, Michael, and Ellen Magenheim. (2025). “Do Minimum Wage Increases Induce Changes in Work Behavior for People with Disabilities? Evidence from the AbilityOne Program.” Labour Economics, Volume 92.
Hemmeter, Jeffrey, Levere, Michael, and David Wittenburg. (2025). “Explaining Variation in Child SSI Receipt: The Role of Medical CDRs.” AEA Papers and Proceedings, Volume 115.
Levere, Michael, Jeffrey Hemmeter, and David Wittenburg. (2024). “The Importance of Schools in Driving Children’s Applications for Disability Benefits.” Journal of Public Economics, Volume 239.
Giffin, E., & Lillethun, E. (2025) “Long-run choice anomalies in reinforcement learning with bounded memory.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 231, Article 106901.
Makofske, M. P. (2024) Disclosure policy design and regulatory agent behavior. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 106 (1), 118-144. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12368
Makofske, M. P. (2025) Anticipated monitoring, inhibited detection, and diminished deterrence. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107084
Murphy, D.M.A., Roobroeck, D., and Lee, D.R. (2024), “Show and Tell: Farmer Field Days and Learning about Inputs with Heterogeneous Yield Effects.” European Review of Agricultural Economics 51(1), 91-127.
Park, S. and N. Simpson, 2025. "Recent trends among college-educated married mothers: Employment, wages and time use." The BLS Monthly Labor Review. August.
Bansak, C., Glebocki, H. and N. Simpson, 2025. “The Impact of US Covid-19 Response on Remittance Flows to Emerging Market Economies.” International Economics 182. DOI: 100580.
Le Kang, Ziteng Lei, Yang Song, and Peng Zhang. “Gender Differences in Reactions to Failure in High-Stakes Competition: Evidence from the National College Entrance Exam Retakes.” Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics 2.2 (2024): 355-397.
Sharma, Rishi and Chad Sparber. “Buying Lottery Tickets for Foreign Workers: Search Cost Externalities Induced by H-1B Policy,” (2024) Journal of International Economics 150 (July), 103932.
Bansak, C., Pearlman, S., and Sparber, C. (2025). The impact of Secure Communities on the labor market outcomes of immigrant women. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 44(3), 917-942.
Dong Cheng, Mario J. Crucini, Hyunseung Oh, and Hakan Yilmazkuday (2025) "Early 20th century American Exceptionalism: Production, trade and diffusion of the automobile", Journal of International Economics, Volume 153, January 2025, 104025.