My name is Richard Paulsen and I have a PhD in Economics from the Department of Economics at Northeastern University. I currently work in Department of Economics at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor. This fall I’ll be teaching one section of Principles of Microeconomics, two sections of Statistics for Business and Economics I, and one section of Introduction to Econometrics.

Latest Updates: My paper “Arts Majors and the Great Recession: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Educational Choices and Employment Outcomes” is now available online at the Journal of Cultural Economics.

My paper “It’s a party in the MLB: An analysis of shirking between games in Major League Baseball” is now available online at the Journal of Sport Management. 

Research and Teaching Interests: 

Primary: Labor Economics, Sports Economics
Secondary: Industrial Organization, Health Economics, Economics of Education