Sarah Marx Quintanar Curriculum Vitae, October 2015 Cell: (817) 875-1856 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Office: (501) 569-8874 Dept. of Economics and Finance Fax: (501) 569-8871 Reynolds Center for Business 322 Email: smquintanar@ualr.edu Little Rock, Arkansas EDUCATION Ph.D. Economics, Louisiana State University, December 2011. M.S. Economics, Louisiana State University, May 2008. B.S. Economics, with Honors, Texas Christian University, May 2006. FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION Labor Economics Law and Economics Experimental Economics PUBLISHED PAPERS You Are Close to Your Rival and Everybody Hates a Winner: A Study of Rivalry in College Football with Cary Deck, Javier Reyes, and Sudipta Sarangi. Economic Inquiry, October 2015, 53(4), 1908-1918. Effort and Performance: What Distinguishes Interacting and Noninteracting Groups from Individuals? with Tibor Besedes, Cary Deck, Sudipta Sarangi, and Mikael Shor. Southern Economic Journal, October 2014. UNDER REVIEW Man vs. Machine: An Investigation of Speeding Ticket Disparities Based on Gender and Race (Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Applied Economics). Judicial Discretion in Traffic Fines: Who Foots the Bill?
CV- Sarah Marx Quintanar 2 WORKING PAPERS Follow the Dollar: An Economic Analysis of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery. The Effect of Automated Traffic Enforcement on Crime Rates. Trust in Texas Towns with Catherine Eckel, Sudipta Sarangi, and Rick Wilson. Assessing Complementarity of Police Officers and Traffic Cameras. TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Arkansas at Little Rock Fall 2012 to present Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Courses Principles of Microeconomics (face-to-face and creator of online course) Applied Econometrics Intermediate Microeconomics Business Statistics (online course) Sports and Law Economics Seminar (co-creator, taught Spring 2014) History and Globalization of the Drug Trade (co-creator of interdisciplinary course, taught Spring 2015) Graduate Courses Foundations of Business: Economics (hybrid MBA course) Undergraduate Research Advisor, Independent Study (advisor for individual research projects) McNair Scholar Mentor Donaghey Scholar (primary advisor; committee member) Louisiana State University Fall 2007 to Fall 2011 Instructor, Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Microeconomics. Introduction to Macroeconomics. Game Theory (Undergraduate). Application of Econometric Methods (Undergraduate). Math for Economists (Graduate).
CV- Sarah Marx Quintanar 3 Tutor, Introduction/ Intermediate Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, Game Theory, and Money and Banking. Texas Christian University Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Microeconomics, Spring 2005 to Spring 2006. Tutor, Introduction/Intermediate Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, 2003 to 2006. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Acadian Consulting Group Senior Research Associate, December 2011 to August 2015. Research focused on issues related to energy and environmental economics Natural Resource Valuation in conjunction with BP oil spill Energy pricing for various utilities across the United States Louisiana State University Research Assistant to Professor Sudipta Sarangi, on project funded by the Department of Homeland Security, titled Revealed Preferences, Spring 2011. Research Assistant to Professor Sudipta Sarangi, on project funded by National Institute on Aging Grant), titled Choice Overload and Loss Aversion in Multi-Attribute Decision Making, Spring 2009 to Fall 2009. Research Assistant to Professor Eric Hillebrand, Summer 2007 to Spring 2008. Centers for Disease Control Research Intern in the Office on Smoking and Health, Atlanta, GA, Summer 2006.
CV- Sarah Marx Quintanar 4 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY Selected Presentations of Research August 2015 March 2015 November 2014 Introductory Remarks: Prosecutor Discretion Module Results, Reveal, Restore and Resurrect: The Truth About Racial Disparities in the Arkansas Criminal Justice System. UALR William H. Bowen School of Law, Little Rock, AR. Follow the Dollar: An Economic Analysis of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery, selected as one of four poster presentations, NABE Economic Policy Conference, Washington D.C. You Are Close to Your Rival and Everybody Hates a Winner: Rivalry in College Football, Southern Economic Association Meetings, Atlanta, GA. The Effect of Automated Traffic Enforcement on Crime Rates, Southern Economic Association Meetings, Atlanta, GA. February 2014 November 2013 November 2013 November 2012 The Effect of Automated Traffic Enforcement on Crime Rates, Vanderbilt University Departmental Seminar Series, Nashville, TN. You Are Close to Your Rival and Everybody Hates a Winner: Rivalry in College Football, Texas Christian University Lunch Series, Fort Worth, TX. Assessing Complementarity of Police Officers and Traffic Cameras, Southern Economic Association Meetings, Tampa Bay, FL. Behind the Trophy Battles: Understanding College Football Rivalries, LSU Department of Economics Seminar Series, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA.
CV- Sarah Marx Quintanar 5 November 2012 September 2012 The Effect of Automated Traffic Enforcement on Crime Rates, Southern Economic Association Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana. Do Driver Decisions in Traffic Court Motivate Police Discrimination in Issuing Speeding Tickets, University of Arkansas, Department of Economics Seminar Series. 2009-2010 Man vs. Machine: An Investigation of Speeding Ticket Disparities Based on Gender and Race, Southern Economic Association Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia; University of Arkansas, Department of Economics Seminar Series; Southern Economic Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas. Selected Conference Participations March 2014 March 2013 March 2013 February 2011 January 2011 February 2010 November 2008 Racial Attitudes in Pulaski County: Focus on Class, Finances, and Business. University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR. 6 th Annual Arkansas Student Success Symposium. University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR. Racial Attitudes in Pulaski County: Focus on Crime and Punishment. University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR. Bargaining, Evolution and Networks: A Conference in Honor of Hans Haller. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. [Member of Local Organizing Committee] American Economic Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado. Networks: Theory and Applications, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. [Organizer] NBER Conference on Economic Aspects of Obesity, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [Organizer]
CV- Sarah Marx Quintanar 6 Other Press and Non-Peer Reviewed Publications Reveal, Restore and Resurrect: The Truth About Racial Disparities in the Arkansas Criminal Justice System, with Prosecutor Discretion Committee Members. When Facebook Inhibits Knowledge, Arkansas Business, May 25, 2015. Discussion of ease of information sharing in social media and its impacts on business costs as well as impact of demand-side preferences of consumers. Invited speaker: Sports Economics, Economics Arkansas, June 26, 2015. Non-technical research discussion at a training for secondary teachers in Arkansas. Professional Affiliations American Economic Association, member Southern Economic Association, member Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, member Omicron Delta Epsilon, member Beta Gamma Sigma, member GRANTS AND HONORS November 15, 2014 to August 15, 2015: Recipient of $5,000 Research Grant from the Institute on Race and Ethnicity, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR. Professional Development Certificate for Commitment to Excellence in Teaching, Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, April 2013. Excellence in Teaching Award, Teaching Assistant Category, Department of Economics, Louisiana State University, December 2010. Invited Economic Panelist at Are you red or are you blue? Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, October 2008. Graduate Assistantship awarded by Louisiana State University, Fall 2006 to December 2011.