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Dependence begets subservience
and venality, suffocates the germ
of virtue, and prepares fit tools
for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson

Hal W. Snarr, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Economics

117 Merrick Hall

336-334-7744 [ext. 4017]

hwsnarr@ncat.edu

Curriculum Vitae

"Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try" — Yoda, Jedi Master

Advisor:

• Omicron Delta Epsilon--The International Honor Society for Economics

• Aggie Economic Association

Currently Teaching:

• Principles of Macroeconomics (fall and spring)

• Labor Economics (fall)

• Elementary Statistics (summer)

• Advanced Statistics (spring summer)

Previous Courses Taught:

·         Mathematical Economics, 2007 AEASP, Duke University (Final Exam Key)

·         Microeconomic Theory, 2006 AEASP, Duke University (Microeconomics in a Nutshell)

·         Intermediate Microeconomics

·         Principles of Microeconomics

·         Sports Economics

·         Money and Banking

·         Intermediate Microeconomics

·         Econometrics

PUBLICATIONS: 

• Hal W. Snarr, Daniel Underwood, Daniel Friesner (forthcoming) Evaluating Evolutionary Changes in State TANF Policies Applied Economics Letters

• Hal W. Snarr (2013) Was it the economy or reform that precipitated the steep decline in the welfare caseload? Applied Economics 45: 525-540

• Hal W. Snarr, Dan Friesner and Mark L. Burkey (2011) Unintended migration consequences of US welfare reform Economic Analysis and Policy 41(3): 233-251

• Dan Axelsen, Hal Snarr and Dan Friesner (2010) Teaching consumer theory to business students: An integrative approach Perspectives on Economic Education Research 6(1): 15-47

• Hal Snarr and Jeffrey A. Edwards (2009) Does income support increase abortions? Social Choice and Welfare, Springer, vol. 33(4), pages 575-99

• Hal Snarr and Dan Axelsen (2008) Are welfare eligible households forward-looking? Economics Bulletin, 9(8): 1-9

• Dan Axelsen, Dan Friesner, Robert Rosenman, and Hal Snarr (2007) Welfare recipient work choice and in-kind benefits in Washington state Applied Economics, 39(8): 1021-36

• Hal Snarr and Dan Axelsen (2007) Accounting for peak shifting in traditional cost-benefit analysis Journal of Economic Development and Business Policy 1(1): 1-23.

• Hal Snarr and Mark Burkey (2006) A preliminary investigation of welfare migration induced by time limits Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy, 36(2): 124-39.

• Hal Snarr and Steven Gold (2006): The design and use of macroeconomics simulation using maple software: A pilot study Developments in Business Simulation and Experiential Learning, 33: 253-62.

• Dan Axelsen and Hal Snarr (2004): Analyzing Washington State's welfare program design, WorkFirst Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Economics, v5.

Presentations:

• Who’s your daddy? Have aspects of welfare reform replaced the father with the State? (with Melanie Guldi) 2010 Missouri Valley Economics Association Annual Conference, St Louis, Missouri

• A simultaneous-equation analysis of welfare reform's impact on abortion and fertility (with Melanie Guldi) 2010 Missouri Valley Economics Association Annual Conference, St Louis, Missouri

• A new approach to teaching principles of macroeconomics 2010 Missouri Valley Economics Association Annual Conference, St Louis, Missouri

• A simultaneous-equation analysis of welfare reform’s impact on abortion and fertility 2010 National Research Conference on Child and Family Programs and Policy (with Melanie Guldi)

• Welfare reform’s impact on the welfare caseload, work, marriage, poverty, abortion, and fertility 2009 Missouri Valley Economics Association Annual Conference, Kansas City, Missouri

• Preliminary Results: Welfare reform’s impact on the welfare caseload, work, marriage, poverty, abortion, and fertility, The Cato Institute, May 2008

• Do Low Income Families Act on the Migration Incentives Created by the Devolution in U.S. Welfare Policy? 2009 Southern Regional Science Association Meetings, San Antonio, TX

• Welfare reform’s impact on the welfare caseload, work, marriage, poverty, abortion, and fertility, 2009 NC A&T Faculty Brown Bag Seminar Series

• Do First Trimester Diversion Payments Increase Abortions? Theory and Evidence of an Unintended Consequence of Welfare Reform 2008 NC A&T Faculty Brown Bag Seminar Series

• 2007 Economics Nobel Prize Presentation, NC A&T, Aggie Economic Association Student Club meeting 2006 Economics Nobel Prize Presentation, NC A&T Faculty Brown Bag Seminar Series

• Lump-sum TANF diversion, TANF eligibility of childless pregnant women, and changes in abortions (title was updated after program was printed) 2007 Southern Economic Association Meetings, New Orleans

• Welfare Reform and Migration between Draconian and Samaritan States 2007 Western Economic Association International meetings, Seattle, WA

• 2006 Economics Nobel Prize Presentation, NC A&T Faculty Brown Bag Seminar Series

• Theoretical Implications of Welfare Reform on Interstate Migration 2006 Missouri Valley Economic Association, Minneapolis, MN

• Welfare Dynamics: A Counter Argument to the Forward-Looking Conjecture 2006 Western Economic Association International meetings, San Diego, CA

• A Preliminary Investigation of Welfare Migration Induced by Time Limits 2006 Southern Regional Science Association meetings, St. Augustine, FL

• The Design and Use of a Macroeconomics Simulation Using Maple Software: A Pilot Study 2006 Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning Conference, San Francisco, CA

• Incorporating Mathematics Software in the Economics Classroom: An Alternative Approach to Teaching the IS-LM Model, 2005 UNC TLT Conference, Raleigh, NC

• Incorporating Mathematics and Maple in the Macroeconomics Principles Classroom 2005 Eastern Economic Association Conference, New York, NY

• Minimum wage hikes and their deleterious effect on youth employment (with Alfredo A. Romero) UNC-G Seminar

• Workplace Privacy? A Debate on Privacy in the Facebook Era (with Matt Brophy)

WORKING PAPERS:

• Evaluating Evolutionary Changes in State TANF Policies (under review) with Dan Friesner and Daniel A. Underwood

• Exploring the Impact of TANF on the Employment of Low-Income Women: New Evidence from State-Level Panel Data and Simultaneous Equation Modeling (under review) with Daniel Friesner and Dan Axelsen

• A new approach to teaching principles of macroeconomics (under review)

• A simultaneous-equation analysis of welfare reform’s impact on abortion and fertility with Melanie Guldi

• Welfare reform’s direct and indirect impacts on marriage with Melanie Guldi

• In the post-welfare reform era, what’s working and what’s not working in the War on Poverty? with Kathryn Cort

• Simulating Peak-shifting Using Logistic and Quadratic Mathematical Modeling Techniques with Dan Axelsen

• Do Low Income Families Act on the Migration Incentives Created by the Devolution in U.S. Welfare Policy? with Mark Burkey and Melanie Guldi

• Interstate Migration Consequences of Social Assistance Reform in the US: A Comprehensive, More Realistic Step in the Right Direction with Mark L. Burkey

• Have States’ Welfare Policies under TANF Incentivized Migration? with Melanie Guldi and Mark Burkey