Gary Hoover is a President’s Associates Presidential Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at the University of Oklahoma.
Dr. Hoover received his PhD in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998. Since then, he has published numerous scholarly research papers, book chapters, and reviews on areas of public policy of income redistribution/poverty, political economy, and ethics in the economics profession. He is a leading scholar on academic misconduct, specifically plagiarism, in the economics profession and sits on the RePEc plagiarism committee.
Dr. Hoover is co-chair of the American Economics Association Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession, Vice President of the Southern Economic Association, and founding editor of the Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy. He is also a Network Fellow at CESifo in Munich, Germany. Dr. Hoover was previously a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty, as well as a guest professor at the University of Hannover, the University of Konstanz, and the University of Vienna.
