Nolan Kopkin

  • Associate Professor, African & African Diaspora Studies

Education

  • PhD, Cornell University

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
AFRIC 125-001 Economics of the Black Community No Meeting Pattern
AFRIC 228-001 Introduction to Black Political Economy No Meeting Pattern

Teaching Interests

  • The economic problems of black business
  • Demographic differences and discrimination in the labor market, statistics, econometrics, and program analysis

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

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.(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.

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