Nolan Kopkin
Associate Professor
Mitchell Hall 217
Education
PhD, Cornell University
Research Interests
Labor and education issues including discrimination in and out of the labor market, demographic differences in wages, education, self-employment, and access to credit markets, the impact of political parties on labor outcomes, labor migration, and program evaluation using econometric techniques
Teaching Interests
The economic problems of black business, demographic differences and discrimination in the labor market, statistics, econometrics, and program analysis
Selected Publications
Kopkin, N. A., & Mitchell-Walthour, G. (2020) Color Discrimination, Occupational Prestige, and Skin Color in Brazil.Latin American & Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 15(1), 44-69.
Kopkin, N. A.(2019) Evidence of Own-Race Bias in Heisman Trophy Voting.Social Science Quarterly, 100(1), 176-197.
Kopkin, N. A.(2019) The Nature of Regional Bias in Heisman Voting.Journal of Sports Analytics, 5(2), 85-100.
Kopkin, N. A., & Winkler, E. N.(2019) Naming Black Studies: Results from a Faculty Opinion Survey.Journal of Black Studies, 50(4), 343-366.
Kopkin, N. A.(2019) Where and When Police Use Deadly Force: A County-Level Longitudinal Analysis of Fatalities Involving Interaction with Law Enforcement.Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2, 150-162.
Kopkin, N. A.(2018) The Conditional Spatial Correlations between Racial Prejudice and Racial Disparities in the Market for Home Loans.Urban Studies, 55(16), 3596-3614.
Kopkin, N. A.(2017) Substantive Black Political Representation: Evidence from Matching Estimates in the United States House of Representatives.Review of Black Political Economy, 44(3), 203-232.
Kopkin, N. A., Martin, M. L., & Hollar, D. (2017) Improvements in Standardised Test Scores from a Multi-Component Nutrition and Healthy Living Intervention in a US Elementary-School Setting.Health Education Journal, 77(5), 527-541.
Kopkin, N. A.(2016) Does Racial Prejudice affect Black Entrepreneurship?: Evidence Exploiting Spatial Differences in Prejudicial Attitudes.Applied Economics, 49(31), 3045-3066.
Kopkin, N. A.(2014) You’re Fired!: The Impact of Race on the Firing of Black Head Coaches in Major College Football.Review of Black Political Economy, 41(4), 373-392.
Kopkin, N. A.(2012) Tax Avoidance: How Income Tax Rates Affect the Labor Migration Decisions of NBA Free Agents.Journal of Sports Economics, 13(6), 571-602.