Robert T. Jones
Office: Group 1, Room 376
Telephone: 508.910.6607
Fax: 508.990.9674
E-mail: rjones@umassd.edu
Intersession 2008 Office Hours:
Available by appointment only.
Courses for Spring 2008
- ECO 441 Section 1 Public Economic I: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30 - 10:45
- ECO 231 Section 1 Principles of Microeconomics: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00 - 12:15
- ECO 232 Section 8101 Principles of Macroeconomics: Monday 6:30 - 9:30
Robert T. Jones, Associate Professor of Economics, began teaching at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 1999. Professor Jones received a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts--Dartmouth and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Clark University in Worcester, MA.
Professor Jones' fields of interest include: health economics, public economics, and econometrics. Courses he teaches are:
- ECO 231 Principles of Microeconomics
- ECO 232 Principles of Macroeconomics
- ECO 301 Intermediate Microeconomics
- ECO 332 Economic Statistics
- ECO 333 Econometrics
- ECO 338 Health Economics
- ECO 441 Public Economics I
In addition to his teaching duties Professor Jones acts as the Chairman of the Economics Department. When he is not teaching, Professor Jones devotes his time to the study of Public Health initiatives, their effect on individual decision making and their fiscal impact on government budgets as well the economics the aging.
Recent Publications
Daniel Georgianna and Robert T. Jones "Privatizing the Benefits from Higher Education and Its Effects on Access," American Academic, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2007)
Constantine Alexandrakis and Robert T. Jones “Secession and Exit: An Analysis of Two Competing Hypotheses, in The Elgar Companion to Public Economics: Empirical Public Economics, eds. Attiat F. Ott and Richard J. Cebula (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006): 388-401
Ronald J. Shadbegian and Robert T. Jones “Did Proposition 2 ½ Affect Local Public Education in Massachusetts? Evidence from Panel Data, Global Business and Economics Review, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2005)
Robert T. Jones and E.C.H. Veendorp “Cooperative Moves in a Non-Cooperative Game, Global Business and Economics Review, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2005)
Last Updated On: 12/20/07
