Josh Dalton

Josh Dalton is an economics educator with more than twenty years of experience across myriad contexts. Though he considers Tucson, AZ his hometown, he and his family currently live in Knoxville where this fall he will start work as a Lecturer of Economics at the University of Tennessee. His research focuses on the way economics is taught and assessed at the collegiate level, with a particular eye toward the economics gender gap and the time allocation of academic economists. Beyond this work he has interests in music, film, literature, and running.

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