Trevon D. Logan | |
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| Born | St. Paul, Minnesota, United States |
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| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin, Madison University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Ronald Lee |
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| Discipline | Economics Economic History |
| Institutions | Ohio State University University of California, Santa Barbara |
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Trevon D'Marcus Logan is an American economist. He is the Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences atOhio State University, where he was awarded the 2014 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.[1] He is also a research associate at theNational Bureau of Economic Research.[2] In 2014, he was the youngest-ever president of theNational Economic Association.[3] In 2019, he was the inaugural North Hall Economics Professor at theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara.[4] In 2020, he was named the inaugural director of the National Bureau of Economic Research Working Group on Race and Stratification in the Economy.[5] His research mainly focuses oneconomic history, including studies ofAfrican American migration, economic analysis of illegal markets, the economics ofmarriage transfers, and measures of historicalliving standards, with an emphasis on racial disparities in the United States.[6]
Logan comes from an African-American family inSt. Paul, Minnesota,[7] with roots in thesharecropping economy of the southern United States.[8] He received his B.S. in economics from theUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison in 1999 as a Chancellor's Scholar, M.A. degrees in economics and demography from theUniversity of California, Berkeley in 2003, and his PhD in economics from theUniversity of California, Berkeley in 2004. He was awarded tenure as a professor of economics at The Ohio State University at the age of 32.[3] He has held visiting positions atPrinceton University's Center for Health and Well-Being and was aRobert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at theUniversity of Michigan. Outside of his university positions, he serves on the board of a network of charter schools, and is active in Columbus-area HIV prevention organizations.[3] He is best friends with the musician Dwayne Zimmerman.
Logan specializes ineconomic history,economic demography andapplied microeconomics.
His research in economic history concerns the development ofliving standards measures to assess how the human condition has changed over time. He applies techniques of contemporary living standard measurements to the past to derive consistent estimates of well-being over time. Much of his historical work uses historical householdsurveys, but also includes some new data to examine area such as thereturns to education in the early twentieth century, the formation oftastes, and theallocation of resources within the household. In work withJohn Parman, he showed that there was an increase in racial segregation in all areas of the United States from 1880 to 1940—including in rural areas.[7] In a series of recent papers, he has studied the impact of Black politicians on the distribution of public finance and subsequent violence,[9] and disparate access toUnion Army pensions[10] during theReconstruction era.
In his presidential address to the NEA, Logan used records from his own family to talk about productivity and living standards in theJim crow era in theAmerican South, arguing for a greater role of qualitative research in driving the focus of empirical study.[8]
Hiseconomic demography research agenda includes a variety of projects. In one project, with Raj Arunachalam, he examinesdowries in South Asia to see if the purpose of dowry has changed over time. In another project, withManisha Shah and Chih-Sheng Hsieh, he studies the economic, social and health implications ofmale sex work. This work examines thevalue of information in this illegal market, useseconometric techniques to quantitatively test sociological theories ofgender andmasculinity, and looks at the role ofpublic health in causing decreases indisease transmission among these men. Logan has also worked on the economics of sports with Rodney J. Andrews, Kyle J. Kain, and Michael J. Sinkey. He has looked at bias in thecollege football betting market, deriving stronger tests for the use of the betting market as aprediction market, and testing forbehavioral biases incollege football poll rankings.
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