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Jim Flynn

Assistant Professor

Economics


Jim Flynn

Contact Information

Office Hours

  • MW 10:00-12:00

Links

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Profile

Academic Background

  • Ph.D., Economics, University of Colorado Boulder, 2023
  • M.A., Economics, University of Colorado Boulder, 2020
  • M.S., Economics, Drexel University, 2016
  • B.S., Accounting, James Madison University, 2007

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Miami University, 2023-present
  • Research Affiliate, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), 2024-present

Recent Publications

  • "When beer is safer than water: Beer availability and mortality from water-borne illnesses." (with Francisca Antman) Journal of Development Economics. Volume 171, October 2024. 103343.
  • "Soda taxes, consumption, and health outcomes for high school students." Economics Letters. Volume 4. 2024.
  • "Do Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes Improve Public Health Outcomes for High School Aged Adolescents?" Health Economics. Volume 32. 2023
  • "Salary Disclosure and Individual Effort: Evidence from the National Hockey League." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Volume 202. 2022
  • "Expanded Contraceptive Access Linked to Increase in College Completion Among Women in Colorado." (with Sara Yeatman, Amanda Stevenson, Katie Genadek, Jane Menken and Stefanie Mollborn) Health Affairs. Volume 41. 2022.

Honors & Awards

  • Stanford Calderwood Student Teaching Award, University of Colorado Boulder, 2022
  • Graduate Award for Public Policy Research, University of Colorado Boulder, 2021
  • Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) - Graduate Student Award Grant, University of Colorado Boulder, 2020
  • Haller Scholarship, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2018

Biography

James Flynn received his PhD in economics from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2023 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Farmer School of Business at Miami University. He is an applied microeconomist who specializes in health and labor economics. His research explores the first and second-order impacts which occur when individuals change their behavior in response to policy shifts. This includes the effect of salary disclosure on worker effort and firm performance, the effect of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes on soda consumption and health outcomes, and the effect of expanding access to long-acting reversible contraceptives on infant health outcomes and female human capital accumulation.

Courses

  • FALL 2024
  • ECO 332 A MW 1:15PM-2:35PM FSB 0014
  • ECO 411/511 A MW 2:50PM-4:10PM FSB 0014