Last year's faculty recruitment season was exceedingly successful, with the department filling one economics position and one position joint with BC's popular International Studies program. Andrew Beauchamp joins us from Duke University, where he completed the Ph.D. under the supervision of Peter Arcidiacono after his undergraduate work at Michigan State University. His research interests lie in applied microeconomics, labor economics and industrial organization. Beauchamp's dissertation is "Family Formation and Equilibrium Influences"; his working papers include studies on abortion supplier dynamics, high school dating and the relationship between family formation and the demand for abortion. He will be teaching graduate labor economics this fall and undergraduate industrial economics next spring.
Scott Fulford is our joint hire in economics and international studies. He recently completed the Ph.D. at Princeton University, focusing on development economics, macroeconomics and applied microeconomics. He earned a BA in economics and a BS in mathematics from Stanford University. Fulford presented "Financial access in buffer-stock economies: Evidence from India" at a Boston College seminar; some of his other work also focuses on cohort returns to education, banking, and fertility in India. He will be teaching an upper-level elective in development economics this fall and a lower-level elective for economics and international studies students next spring.
We are delighted to welcome Profs. Beauchamp and Fulford to the Boston College economics faculty.