Dr. Kass is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Dallas. Dr. Kass's work covers Labor and Public economics topics using experimental techniques and econometrics analysis methodologies. Much of his previous research investigated behavior in strategic settings where cooperation between parties is unlikely. His current research work focuses on non-productive determinants of worker compensation and lower-income individuals' investment choices under stress. Public and Labor Economics, Collective Decision making Econometrics and Experimental Techniques
EDUCATION
M.S. & PhD, Economics, the University of Texas at Dallas
M.B.A, Southern Methodist University
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Nebraska
RECENT COURSES
ECO -1311 Fundamentals of Economics
ECO - 3320 Intermediate Macroeconomics
ECO - 4338 Public Economics
ECO -3328 Econometrics
ECO -4V61 Independent Research
Public and Labor economics, Collective decision making,, Conflict and Conflict resolution
- "The not-so-free agent: Non-performance factors that contribute to free agent compensation premiums" with Ryan Terry and Jeffery McGee, Sport Management Review, 21(2): 189-201. April 2018.
- "The UN in the Lab" with Enrique Fatas, Catherine C. Eckel, and Daniel G. Arce M., Social Choice and Welfare, 45(3}: 625-651. October 2015.
- "Counterterrorism Strategies in the Lab" with Daniel G. Arce M., Sneha Bakshi, Rachel T. A. Croson, Catherine C. Eckel and Enrique Fatas, Public Choice, 145(3):465-4 78. December 2011.
INVITED SEMINARS
2017: University of Munich; 2014: CUNY-Queens College
PRESENTATIONS
2019: SEA Annual Meetings, Fort Lauderdale; 2019: ASSA Annual Meetings (discussant),
Atlanta ; 2017: SEA Annual Meetings, Tampa; 2016: SEA Annual Meetings, Washington
DC.; 2015: SEA Annual Meetings, New Orleans; 2014: NYU-CESS Experimental Political
Science Conference (poster); Texas Experimental Association Symposium (poster}; SEA
Annual Meetings, Atlanta; 2013: Economic Science Association North American Meetings,
Santa Cruz; Economic Science Association World Meetings, Zurich
- Research Award, the University of Texas at Arlington.
- Shukla Graduate Fellowship, $5000, the University of Texas at Dallas, 2013.
- Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society