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John Straub

Title Lecturer of Economics
Degrees Ph.D. and M.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.A. Boston College
Expertise Public Finance, Applied Econometrics
Office 304 Braker Hall
8 Upper Campus Rd.
Medford, MA 02155-6722
Phone (617) 627-5872
E-mail john.straub@tufts.edu
Links Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Professor Straub received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 2002. His doctoral dissertation on fundraising and charitable giving received an honorable mention in The National Tax Association's 2003 Outstanding Dissertation Award and an NBER Dissertation Fellowship for Research on the Nonprofit Sector. His other research interests include voluntary labor supply and the elicitation and interpretation of subjective probabilities. His work has been published in The Journal of Human Resources and Public Choice. Before joining the faculty at Tufts he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University (2001-2005).
 
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