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Sam Allgood is an American economist. He is the Faculty Director of the Teaching and Learning Center and Edwin J. Faulkner Professor of Economics at the
University of Nebraska–Lincoln The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska, NU, or UNL) is a public land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska. Chartered in 1869 by the Nebraska Legislature as part of the Morrill Act of 1862, the school was known as the Univer ...
. He is co-editor of the
Journal of Economic Education ''The Journal of Economic Education'' (''JEE'') offers original peer-reviewed articles on teaching economics. The inaugural issue appeared in the fall of 1969. At the time, G.L. Bach ( Stanford University) wrote in the ''American Economic Review P ...
. He chaired the American Economic Association’s Committee on Economic Education, and is now chair of the Association's Task Force on Outreach to High School and Undergraduate Students in Economics.


Career

Allgood has been a member of the faculty of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln since 1993. He is a researcher in the area of economic education, with published work on students' knowledge of economics and the impact of studying economics on financial decision-making.


Selected works

* Allgood, Sam, and William B. Walstad. "The effects of perceived and actual financial literacy on financial behaviors." ''Economic inquiry'' 54, no. 1 (2016): 675-697. * Allgood, Sam, and Kathleen A. Farrell. "The match between CEO and firm." ''the Journal of Business'' 76, no. 2 (2003): 317-341. * Allgood, Sam, William B. Walstad, and John J. Siegfried. "Research on teaching economics to undergraduates." ''Journal of Economic Literature'' 53, no. 2 (2015): 285-325. * Walstad, William B., and Sam Allgood. "What do college seniors know about economics?." ''American Economic Review'' 89, no. 2 (1999): 350-354. * Allgood, Sam, and Arthur Snow. "The marginal cost of raising tax revenue and redistributing income." ''Journal of Political Economy'' 106, no. 6 (1998): 1246-1273.


References

21st-century American economists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-economist-stub