Kathleen Thomas PhD

Publications

Book, Chapter

• Savoir évaluer des programmes d’enseignement artistique: le cas de Little Kids Rock.. Évaluer les politiques publiques de la culture.. Ed. Yann Nicolas and Olivier Gergaud. Paris, France: Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication. 2016
• Advanced Placement Participation: Evaluating the Policies of States and Colleges. AP: A Critical Examination of the Role of the Advanced Placement Program in Education. Ed. Sadler, P., Tai, R., Klopfenstein, K. and Sonnert, G.. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. 2010

Journal Article

• Practice What You Preach and Be a Control Freak. Applied Economics. Volume 52, Issue 42. 2020
• Voluntary taxation and the arts. Journal of Cultural Economics. Volume 44, Issue 4, Pages 589-604. 2020
• Giving to Poverty Relief Charities: The Impact of Beliefs and Misperceptions Toward Income Redistribution in a Real Donation Experiment. Social Choice and Welfare. Volume 49, Issue 2, Pages 387-409. 2017
• Arts Education and the High School Dropout Problem. Journal of Cultural Economics. Volume 39, Issue 4, Pages 327-339. 2015
• Monetary incentives versus class credit: Evidence from a large classroom trust experiment. Economics Letters. Volume 123, Pages 232-235. 2014
• Access to High School Arts Education: Why Student Participation Matters as Much as Course Availability. Education Policy Analysis Archives. Volume 21, Issue 83. 2013
• Teaching Macroeconomic Principles Using Animated Cartoons. The American Economist. Volume 56, Issue 1, Pages 38-47. 2011
• Testing the Economic Literacy of K-12 Teachers: A Statewide Baseline Analysis. American Secondary Education. Volume 38, Issue 3, Pages 4-20. 2010
• Simpsonomics: Teaching Economics Using Episodes from the Television Show The Simpsons.. Journal of Economic Education. Volume 41, Issue 2, Pages 136-149. 2010
• The Impact of Education Histories on the Decision to Become Self-Employed: A Study of Young, Aspiring Minority Business Owners. Small Business Economics. Volume 33, Issue 4, Pages 455-466. 2009
• The Link Between Advanced Placement Experience and Early College Success. Southern Economic Journal. Volume 75, Issue 3, Pages 873-891. 2009
• District Level Mandates and High School Students' Understanding of Economics. Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research. Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages 3-16. 2008
• Developing an Intervention Bridging Program for At-Risk Students Before the Traditional Pre-Freshman Summer Program. College Student Journal. Volume 41, Issue 1, Pages 151-159. 2007
• Teacher Training and Market Attitudes in Transitioning Economies. The American Economist. Volume 50, Issue 2, Pages 32-41. 2006
• Seeking Every Advantage: The Phenomenon of Taking Both the SAT and ACT. Economics of Education Review. Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages 203-208. 2004
• The SAT II: Majority/Minority Test Score Gaps and What They Could Mean for College Admissions. Social Science Quarterly. Volume 85, Issue 5, Pages 1318-1334. 2004
• Where College-Bound Students Send Their SAT Scores: Does Race Matter?. Social Science Quarterly. Volume 85, Issue 5, Pages 1374-1389. 2004
• The Mississippi Budget: An Overview of Selected Revenue and Expenditure Patterns. State Tax Notes. Volume 30, Issue 11, Pages 849-66. 2003

Presentations

Demonstration

• "Using Active Learning Lessons Developed for High Schools Students in the College Classroom." 13th Annual Economics Teaching Workshop, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Wilmington, NC. 2013

Paper

• "Perceptions on Income Inequality." 90th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, New Orleans/virtual. 2020
• "Designing and Implementing Program Evaluations in Arts Education: The Case of Little Kids Rock." 85th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, New Orleans. 2015
• "Designing and implementing program evaluations in arts education: The case of Little Kids Rock." 7th Conference on Cultural and Media Economics, French Ministry of Culture and Communication; Department of Studies, Forward-Looking Analysis and Statistics; KEDGE Business School; Sciences Po, Paris, France. 2015
• "Arts Education and the High School Dropout Problem." 84th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, Atlanta, GA. 2014
• "Arts Education and the High School Dropout Problem." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Research Seminar Series, Center for Human Capital Studies, Atlanta. 2013
• "Access to High School Arts Education." Southern Economic Association, , Atlanta, GA. 2010
• "College Major Choice of Student Athletes." The Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Southern Economic Association, Washington, DC. 2008
• "Simpsonomics: Teaching Economics Using Episodes from The Simpsons." The Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Southern Economic Association, Washington, DC. 2008
• "District Level Mandates and High School Student's Understanding of Economics." The Allied Academy of Economics and Economic Education Spring Conference, Allied Academy of Economics and Economic Education, Tunica, MS. 2008
• "District Level Mandates and High School Students' Understanding of Economics." The National Association of Economic Educators Meetings, The National Association of Economic Educators, Denver, CO. 2007
• "AP Participation: Evaluating the Policies of States and Colleges." Synthesis of Research on Advanced High School Coursework in Science and Mathematics Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 2007
• "Establishing a Baseline Measure of Teacher Economic Literacy in Mississippi." The American Economic Association Annual Meetings, The Allied Social Science Association, Chicago, IL. 2007
• "The Impact of Education Histories on the Decision to Become Self-employed: A Study of Young, Aspiring, Minority Business Owners." Annual meetings of the Southern Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, Charleston, SC. 2006
• "Teacher Training and Market Attitudes in Transitioning Economies." National Association of Economic Educators Meetings, National Association of Economic Educators, New York, NY. 2006
• "Testing the Economic Literacy of K-12 Teachers: A Baseline Analysis for Mississippi." The Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, Southern Economic Association, Washington, DC. 2005
• "The Advanced Placement Performance Advantage: Fact or Fiction." American Economic Association meetings, American Economic Association, Philadelphia, PA. 2005
• "The Advanced Placement Performance Advantage: Fact or Fiction?." Annual Meeting of the Eastern Economic Association, Eastern Economic Association, . 2004
• "Do Teacher Attitudes Become More Pro-Market After Teachers Participate in Training Programs in Transition Economies?." Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, . 2004
• "The Advanced Placement Performance Advantage: Fact or Fiction?." Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, . 2004
• "The Advanced Placement Performance Advantage: Fact or Fiction?." Research Seminar, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS. 2004
• "The Advanced Placement Performance Advantage: Fact or Fiction?." Research Seminar, Department of Economics at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. 2004
• "." Research Seminar, University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, . 2003
• "." Research Seminar, Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, . 2002
• "." Southern Economics Association Annual Meetings, Southern Economic Association, . 2002

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