Professor Li Gan received his PhD in 1998 from University of California - Berkeley. He joined the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University in 2005.

Selected Publications

"The Thick Market Effect of Local Unemployment Rate Fluctuations," Journal of Econometrics 133 (2006):127-152 (with Qinghua Zhang)

“Cost Effective Policies to Reduce Vehicle Emissions," American Economic Review May, 200, (with Don Fullerton).

"A Simulation-Based Welfare Loss Calculation of Taxes on Labor Supply under Piecewise-Linear Budget Constraints." Journal of Public Economics 88, (2004): 2339-59 (with Don Fullerton).

"Testing the Barten Model of Economies of Scale in Household Consumption: Toward Resolving a Paradox of Deaton and Paxson." Journal of Political Economy 111(6), (2003): 1361-77 (with Victoria Vernon).

"A Test for Global Maximum." Journal of American Statistical Association (JASA) 94(447), (September 1999): 847-54 (with Jiming Jiang).