Christopher Boone

• Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University, 2015
• M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 2009
• B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 2005

• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2020-present
• Assistant Professor, School of Hotel Administration and SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University, 2015-2020

Primary Fields

• Labor Market Policy
• Economic History
• Agriculture

Areas of Specialization

• Inequality
• Technological Change
• Economic Crises
• Agriculture

• “Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Aggregate Employment,” with Arindrajit Dube, Lucas Goodman and Ethan Kaplan.  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, forthcoming.
• “The Effects of Tip Recommendations on Customer Tipping, Satisfaction, Retention, and Spending,” with Damon Alexander and Michael Lynn. Management Science, Articles in Advance, June 2020.
• “The Political Economy of Discretionary Spending: Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,” with Arindrajit Dube and Ethan Kaplan, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2014. 
• “Household Water Supply Choice and Time Allocated to Water Collection: Evidence from Madagascar,” with Peter Glick and David E. Sahn, Journal of Development Studies, 47(12), 2011, pp. 1826-50.

• “Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Aggregate Employment,” with Arindrajit Dube, Lucas Goodman and Ethan Kaplan. Forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. (December 2016 working paper version available as IZA DP No. 10439.)
• “The Effects of Tip Recommendations on Customer Tipping, Satisfaction, Retention, and Spending,” with Damon Alexander and Michael Lynn. Management Science, Articles in Advance, June 2020.
• “The Political Economy of Discretionary Spending: Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,” with Arindrajit Dube and Ethan Kaplan, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2014.
• “Household Water Supply Choice and Time Allocated to Water Collection: Evidence from Madagascar,” with Peter Glick and David E. Sahn, Journal of Development Studies, 47(12), 2011, pp. 1826-50.

• “Structural Change and Internal Labor Migration: Evidence from the Great Depression,” with Laurence Wilse-Samson, June 2020. Conditionally accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics.
• “Ground-Level Ozone Pollution and Corn Yields in the United States,” with Wolfram Schlenker and Juha Siikam¨aki, August 2019. Revision requested, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

UMass Amherst

• Introduction to Microeconomics, Fall 2020

Cornell University

• Microeconomics for the Service Industry, 2016-2019
• Labor in the Modern Service Economy: Markets, Crisis, and Public Policy, 2016 & 2018

• SHA Faculty Teaching Award, Cornell University, 2018–2019
• SHA Faculty Teaching Award, Cornell University, 2015–2016

Center for the Study of Inequality Faculty Research Grant, Cornell University, 2018 (co-PI with D. E. Sahn and H. Kaila)

Smith Family Business Institute Research Pioneer Fund Award, Cornell University, 2018 (co-PI with M. Paz and S. E. Rogers)

ISS Small Grant, Cornell University, 2017 (co-PI with M. Paz and S. E. Rogers)

Faculty Fellowship, Department of Economics, Columbia University, 2008–2009

International Research Travel Grant, Cornell University, 2007

McMullen Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University, 2005–2006