Garett Jones

Assistant Professor

Department of Economics

Center for Study of Public Choice

and

Senior Scholar

The Mercatus Center

George Mason University

 

Curriculum Vitae

  

  

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Selected Working Papers

 

The O-Ring Sector and the Foolproof Sector: An explanation for cross-country income differences (July 2008)

PDF                                Presentation Slides

 

Cognitive Ability and Technology Diffusion: An empirical test

PDF                                Presentation Slides

 

IQ in the Production Function: Evidence from immigrant earnings

(June 2008: Forthcoming, Economic Inquiry)

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Are Smarter Groups More Cooperative?  Evidence from repeated prisoners’ dilemma experiments, 1959-2003

(July 2008: Forthcoming, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization)           

PDF                                Excel file with all data

 

Dynamic IS Curves With and Without Money: An international comparison

(2005: Published in Journal of International Money and Finance, 2008)

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On Money and Output: Is money redundant?

(2005: Published in Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007)

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Intelligence, Education, and Economic Growth: A Bayesian averaging of classical estimates (BACE) approach

(June 2005: Published in Journal of Economic Growth, March 2006)

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Current Teaching: Fall 2008

 

Syllabus for M.A. Mathematical Economics

(All course materials are on Blackboard)

 

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Past Teaching

 

 

Syllabus for Ph.D. Macroeconomics I

Syllabus for M.A. Macroeconomics

Syllabus for M.A. Economic Growth

Syllabus for M.A. Time Series Econometrics

Syllabus for Undergraduate Public Choice

Syllabus for Undergraduate Economic Methodology

 

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An old photo of me at the birthplace of a leading driver of U.S. productivity.

 

What I did in the summer of 2008: I took this photo of my brothers in the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne, Yosemite National Park.

 

A 2006 photo of me backpacking in the Mineral King section of Sequoia National Park.

 

A macroeconomic revolution all in one photograph.