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Welcome to the Howard University Economics Department. Every year we conduct a Math Camp for new Economics students in our Graduate program. The purpose of the Math Camp is to allow new students to refresh or learn some of the basic Math tools we use in Economics at the graduate level. The Math Camp is scheduled from August 5, 2019 to August 15, 2019 at 9:00 am to 1:00 pm in the Economics Department, Conference Room.

You are required to take the Expository Writing Exam which will be offered Friday, August 16 at 9am. This exam is only offered once a year.

Development Studies Workshop seminar on Feb 21st, 2019, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm.

Paper title: "The Earth is Not for Sale”

Location is the conference room in the economics department, 3rd floor, Academic Support Building B, Howard University.

Development Studies Workshop seminar on Feb 7th, 2019, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm.

Paper title: "Determinants of worker cooperatives' socio-economic performance: A study of Cuba's new non-agricultural cooperatives.”

Location is the conference room in the economics department, 3rd floor, Academic Support Building B, Howard University.

Luke is a first-generation college graduate from Sacramento, California. He recently earned a B.S. in Economics with Honors from the University of Washington. His senior thesis, “Downstream Consequences of Criminal Justice Reform: Evaluating the Impact of Proposition 47 on California’s Retail Sector,” received the department’s Outstanding Paper Award.

Dr. Durronjae Boothe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Howard University. He holds a PhD and MA in Economics from Georgia State University. He also earned an MSc in Economics and a BSc in Mathematics with a concentration in Actuarial Science from the University of the West Indies, Mona, in Kingston, Jamaica. Dr. Boothe is an applied microeconomist whose research interests include labor economics, education economics, and development economics. His current research agenda focuses primarily on education economics.

Matthew N. White is an economist at Econ-ARK, a non-profit developer of open source computing tools for structural economic research. After growing up in New Hampshire, he did my undergraduate studies at Cornell University, and then pursued graduate study in economics at Johns Hopkins University. After receiving his PhD, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Delaware from 2013 to 2023, and held a Visiting Scholar position at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2015-16.

Sergio Urzua is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland. He is a Research Associate at the NBER, Research Fellow at IZA, and International Research Fellow at Clapes-UC. His research focuses on labor, development and applied econometrics. His research agenda includes the evaluation of social/policy interventions in developing economies. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2007.

Felipe Juan is a postdoctoral scholar at Howard University’s Center for an Equitable Economy and Sustainable Society (E2S2). His research focuses on labor, urban, and health economics. He has worked on unemployment insurance, wealth inequality, worker mobility, and immigration, among other subjects.

David Card is the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Berkeley he taught at University of Chicago in 1982-83 and Princeton University from 1983 to 1996. He has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, Harvard University, UCLA, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. From 2012 to 2017 he was Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Dr. Tingting Xiong is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Howard University's Department of Economics, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in International Economics. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Her research projects focus on international capital flows, multinational corporation activities, international trade, and economic growth.

Department of Economics

Graduate Program: Math Camp & Expository Writing Exam

Seminar: David Schwartzman, Howard University

Seminar: Camila Piñeiro Harnecker, American University

AEASP 2025 Scholar Luke Chaussee

AEASP 2025 Faculty Durronjae Boothe

AEASP 2025 Faculty Matthew White

AEASP 2025 Faculty Sergio Urzua

AEASP 2025 Faculty Felipe Juan

AEASP 2025 Faculty David Card

AEASP 2025 Faculty Tingting Xiong