Creating Excitement Around Economics

Season 2 Episode 45

Creating Excitement Around Economics 

• Host
  • Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor
• Guest:
  • Dr. Orgul Ozturk, Department Chair, Economics & Director, Economic Policy Innovation Center

Dr. Orgul Ozturk is the department chair and professor of economics in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Her academic research interests are in applied microeconomics fields, specifically labor economics and health economics. Ozturk has written articles on the effects of labor market regulations and minimum wages on female employment, effectiveness of supported employment programs for developmentally disabled, the relationship between occupation choice and welfare independence, and the effects of maternal employment and welfare use on children’s cognitive outcomes. 

Orgul has been a frequent guest on Moore Impact, where she has discussed her research, the research review and publication process and the Economic Policy Innovation Center. Dr. Ozturk’s last appearance was following the Cradle to Career Conference last October. 

Topics Include: 

• Lengthy academic hiring process
• Creating specialty course offerings and matching catalog course offerings
• Scholars program as compliment to in classroom education 
• Dr. Ozturk’s research proposals based on Cradle to Career conference
• Plans for event in the spring to connect PhD students to community network
• Looking at workforce dynamics 
• Fields of need with low return on investment 
• Translating economic research into a digestible form 
• Reassessing education requirements for specified jobs 
• Exposing want- to- be entrepreneurs to needed businesses instead of new products
• Simplifying economics to make others recognize how present it is in daily life 
• What to expect from EPIC in the spring 

To learn more about the Economic Policy Innovation Center, click here.

To learn more about the Darla Moore School of Business, click here.

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