Professor Roy Howsen

428 Grise Hall
Phone:  (270) 745-3172
Web Address: http://www.wku.edu/~roy.howsen
E-mail:  roy.howsen@wku.edu

EDUCATION:

 Ph.D., Economics, University of Arkansas
B.S., Public Administration, University of Arkansas

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

 Dr. Howsen specializes in industrial organization.  His current research focuses on how industry structure affects industry performance in the education and manufacturing sectors.  He teaches undergraduate courses in introduction to economics, principles of economics, managerial economics, and statistics. In addition, Dr. Howsen teaches a special topics class for the MBA program.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

 Dr. Howsen's publications include "Competition, Expenditures, and Student Performance in Mathematics," Public Choice; "Manipulable Variables of Policy Importance: The Case of Education," Education Economics, vol. 8, #3, 2000; "School Dropouts and Factors of Influence," Journal of Business and Economics Perspectives, Spring/Summer 2000; "A Note on Student Academic Performance in Rural Versus Urban Areas," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, July 1999; "Effects on Student Attendance on Performance: Comment on Landin," Educational Research, March/April 1998; "Teacher Associated Expenditures and Student Achievement," Applied Economic Letters, 1996.