Gregory N. Price, Ph.D.
Charles E. Merrill Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, Morehouse College

Professor Price previous appointments include Director of the Mississippi Urban Research Center, Professor of Economics at Jackson State University, and Economics Program Director at the National Science Foundation. He also served as President of the National Economic Association in 2008. An applied econometrician and theorist, his current research interests include economic anthropometry, the effects of religiosity on economic behavior, the empirics of social capital and racial stigma, income distribution and redistribution, obesity, crime, the effects of race on economic stratification, and the intergenerational effects of slavery. His research has been published in a wide variety of journals such as Review of Black Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Review, and Review of Development Economics. A native of New Haven, Connecticut, Dr. Price earned his B.A. in economics from Morehouse College, and completed his economics doctorate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.