Associate Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Professor of Economics: 2025-2026
Associate Dean for Faculty Excellence and Professor of Economics: 2021-2025
Department Chair, Economics Miami University (2019-2021)
Julian Lange Professor of Economics, Miami University (2015-2021)
Associate Professor, Miami University (2005-2015)
Assistant Professor, Miami University (1998-2005)
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (2005-Present)
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (1999-2005)
Recent Publications
HOLLINGSWORTH, A., KARBOWNIK, K., THOMASSON, M., WRAY, A. (2024). The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality.American Economic Review,114(7), 2201-2238. doi:10.1257/aer.20230008.
AGER, P., ERIKSSON, K., KARGER, E., NENCKA, P., THOMASSON, M. (2024). School Closures during the 1918 Flu Pandemic.The Review of Economics and Statistics,106(1), 266-276. doi:10.1162/rest_a_01170.
THOMASSON, M., MEYERS, K. (2021). Can pandemics affect educational attainment? Evidence from the polio epidemic of 1916.Cliometrica: journal of historical economics and econometric history,15(2), 231-265. doi:10.1007/s11698-020-00212-3.
THOMASSON, M., MOEHLING, C. (2020). Votes For Women: An Economic Perspective on Women's Enfranchisement.Journal of Economic Perspectives.
MOEHLING, C., NIEMESH, G., THOMASSON, M., TREBER, J. (2019). Medical Education Reforms and the Origins of the Rural Physician Shortage.Cliometrica: journal of historical economics and econometric history.
THOMASSON, M. (2019). Why Do Employers Provide Health Care in the First Place?Harvard Business Review.
Honors & Awards
Richard K. Smucker Outstanding Professor, Farmer School of Business, 2019
Farmer School of Business Junior Research Excellence Award, 2006
Best paper in Explorations in Economic History, 2005
EH.Net Featured Economic Historian, Fall 2004
National Bureau of Economic Research National Fellow, 2002-2003
John M. Olin Fellowship, 1997
University of Arizona Award for Outstanding Teaching, 1997
University of Arizona nominee for national Irwin Fellowship, 1996
Elmer J. Brown Fellowship for outstanding third-year graduate student paper in economics, 1995 (co-recipient)
