Mark Regnerus is a Senior Scholar at the Salem Center for Policy and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research is in the areas of sexual behavior, family, marriage, and religion. Mark is the author of over 40 published articles and book chapters, and four books. The last two […]
Solving Texas’s Street Homelessness Problem
A discussion with Judge Glock, Senior Policy Analyst for the Cicero Institute. Before joining the Cicero Institute, Judge Glock was formerly a visiting professor at the Department of Economics at West Virginia University. He received his Ph.D. in History with a focus on economic history from Rutgers University. Among other places, Judge’s academic writing has […]
Policy Research Laboratory
What is the Policy Research Laboratory? The Policy Research Laboratory is a two part program in which Dr. David Puelz train undergraduate students in the programming, applied mathematics/statistics, and economics tools needed to participate in cutting edge policy research. The course is offered in both the Fall and Spring semesters. Then, at the end of […]
Valentin Bolotnyy on “Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators”
In this Policy @ McCombs event, Valentin Bolotnyy will join us to discuss his paper “Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators” Valentin Bolotnyy is an economist at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He works on topics across public and labor economics, often partnering with government agencies to improve public […]
Why the Patent Waiver on COVID-19 Drugs Is Wrong
Join Amesh Adalja (Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security), Adam Mossoff (Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University) and Gregory Salmieri (Salem Center, University of Texas, Austin) as they make the case that the Biden Administration’s decision to support the proposal to suspend patent protections for all patents and other IP rights on COVID-19 vaccines […]
Jay Bhattacharya on 18 months into the Covid-19 pandemic
Jay Battacharya is a Professor of Economics and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University.