The new study about the effects of taxing e-cigarettes by our director, Chuck Courtemanche, and co-authors is featured in the Hutchins Roundup by Brookings.
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Our director, Chuck Courtemanche, was featured in the most recent Gatton News for his new study on estimating the effect of e-cig taxes on teens.
It's that time of year! Abdullah Al-Bahrani from NKU is welcoming all educators interested in trying out Danny Dollar Academy to teach Economics, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship. 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade educators join us.
Register for a teacher info session at https://dannydollar.academy/teachers
If you want to be a regional partner and sponsor schools in your area you can join on regional partner program https://www.dannydollar.academy/regional-partners
Join VACE's virtual kickoff event for this year's Entreprenuers Bootcamp on September 2nd at 5:00pm! Listen to impressive new startup ideas and join a team!
The study by Chuck Courtemanche, Aaron Yelowitz, Anh Le, and Ron Zimmer is mentioned a KXAN article.
Rave On Sports, one of the winners of the Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship Virtual Startup Contest, was covered by Spectrum News 1 Kentucky.
Congratulations to the winners of the Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship 2nd Annual "Wildly Possible" Virtual Startup Contest!
1st place - $5,000 - Fresh Eyes Solutions
2nd place - $4,000 - Rave On Sports
3rd place - $3,000 - ReBegin
4th place - $2,000 - My Vocal Health
5th place - $1,000 – ZKaKa
Aaron Yelowitz, our affiliate, recently published an op-ed in The Hill.
Darshak Patel, our associate director, and co-authors Abdullah Al-Bahrani and Jamie Weathers have a paper in the Financial Services Review about financial literacy education.
*Can be found on page 303*
This study was funded by an Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise summer research grant.
Congratulations to ISFE affiliate, Darshak Patel, and Dr. Abdullah Al-Bahrani for being awarded the 2021 National Endowment for Financial Education Best Financial Education Paper presented by the National Association of Economic Educators.
Their awarded paper titled “Racial Differences in the Returns to Financial Literacy" can be found here
