Graduate Program: Math Camp & Expository Writing Exam

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.

Seminar: David Schwartzman, Howard University

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.

Seminar: Camila Piñeiro Harnecker, American 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.

Dr. Swinton's interview with Washington Center for Equitable Growth

Dr. Hsu and Dr. Henke Publish Research on COVID-19 Eviction Moratoria and Racial Disparities

The study found that state eviction moratoria were highly effective, reducing eviction filings by approximately 75% compared to states without protections.
Using administrative eviction data and advanced demographic analysis, the research revealed that these policies provided disproportionately greater protection to Black, Hispanic, and Asian renters compared to white renters, as well as greater protection for women than men.

AEASP 2025 Scholar Luke Chaussee

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.

AEASP 2025 Faculty Durronjae Boothe

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.

AEASP 2025 Faculty Matthew White

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.

AEASP 2025 Faculty Sergio Urzua

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.

AEASP 2025 Faculty Felipe Juan

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.