Wendy Stock, Ph.D.

Wendy Stock is a professor of economics in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics (DAEE) at Montana State University. She joined the DAEE in 2000 and served as the DAEE Department Head from 2006-2016. She earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Michigan State University in 1994 and 1996, respectively, and a B.A. in economics from Weber State University in 1992. Prior to joining the DAEE, she was an assistant professor of economics at Kansas State University.  Her research focuses on two primary areas: (1) the impacts of labor market policies and (2) economics education. Her research in the area of labor market policies has focused on the impacts of disability, race, sex, and age discrimination legislation and on the impacts of no-fault divorce and family leave policies. Her work in this area has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Human Resources, Economic Inquiry, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, and other outlets. Her research in the area of economics education includes more than a dozen studies focusing on graduate and undergraduate education in economics, educational attrition and degree completion, assessment of the factors that impact time to degree completion, the impact of teaching innovations, the immediate and longer term job outcomes of college graduates, and the match between curricula and job demands. Her research in this area has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Human Resources, Economics of Education Review, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Education, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and Economic Inquiry. She is the author of an insightful introductory-level economics textbook, “Social Issues and Economic Thinking,” published by Wiley and available via most online outlets. She served on the American Economic Association Committee on Economic Education from 2005-2011 and again beginning in 2017. She has won numerous teaching and research awards and her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Ford Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation, and the Charles Koch Foundation. Her most recent area of research focuses on the impact of policy and regulation on the health, education, and labor market outcomes of those with mental disorders.