Calvin Blackwell, Ph.D.

Professor of Economics

Education

University of New Mexico - Albuquerque, New Mexico
Ph.D., Economics, Dec. 2000

University of Virginia - Charlottesville, Virginia
B.A., Economics/History, May 1993

Research Interests

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

• Introductory Microeconomics
• Introductory Macroeconomics
• Intermediate Microeconomics
• Intermediate Macroeconomics
• Labor Economics
• Environmental Economics
• Statistics and Introductory Econometrics
• Game Theory
• Seminar in Environmental Studies

Graduate

• Seminar in Public Finance
• Managerial Economics
• Economic Theory for Policy Analysis 

Selected Publications

Blackwell, Calvin, Norman Maynard, James Malm, Mark Pyles, Marcia Snyder and Mark Witte. 2024.

“Who Gets Duped? The Impact of Personality and Education on Skepticism in an Investment Task.” Journal of Economics and Finance 48, pp. 734-753.

Blackwell, Calvin, Chris Mothorpe and Julie Wright. 2024. “Flooding and Elevation: An Examination of Differential Price Responses to Flood Events.” Journal of Sustainable Real Estate 16(1), 2372133.

Burnett, J. Wesley and Calvin Blackwell. 2024 (published online 2023). “Graphical causal modeling: An application to identify and estimate cause-and-effect relationships.” Applied Economics 56(33), pp. 3986-4000.

Blackwell, Calvin and Russell S. Sobel. 2020. “The Efficiency Impact of Policy Uncertainty: An Experimental Study.” Applied Economics Letters 27(10), pp. 859-872.

Blackwell, Calvin and Peter Calcagno. 2019. “Party-crashers or Wallflowers? The Lack of Strategic Voting in Experimental.” Applied Economics Letters 26(19), pp. 1641-1648.

Blackwell, Calvin, Daniela Goya-Tocchetto and Zachary Sturman. 2018. “Nudges in the Restroom: How Hand-washing can be impacted by Environmental Cues.” Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy 2(2), pp. 41-47.

Blackwell, Calvin. 2018. “Power Laws in Real Estate Prices? Some Evidence.” Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 69, pp. 90-98. DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2018.03.014.

Honors & Awards

• Outstanding Service Award, School of Business, College of Charleston, Spring 2008
• Outstanding Research Award, School of Business, College of Charleston, Spring 2004