{"id":105858,"date":"2019-11-06T13:08:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T23:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=105858"},"modified":"2024-03-15T15:27:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T01:27:19","slug":"economist-shares-uh-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/06\/economist-shares-uh-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Economist shares fond undergrad memories of UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa on national podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Tisha Nakao Emerson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A College of Social Sciences<\/a> alumna known for her research on the gender gap in economics spoke glowingly of her undergraduate education at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa during a podcast from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. <\/p>\n

Tisha Lin Nakao Emerson<\/strong>, a professor of economics at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, was interviewed on the bank\u2019s October 30, “Women in Economics” podcast<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Emerson credits her former UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa professors for igniting her interest in the field and switching her major from mathematics. “In my second semester, I found myself in an economics course, the Principles of Microeconomics. And I was just so captivated by everything that my professor, James Mak<\/strong>, talked about,” she recalls. “He was wonderful and I felt every day like I was sitting on the edge of my seat; I was just so engaged.”<\/p>\n

“And I saw how economics could use the math that I loved, so it had the reasoning and the elegance of math and logic, but it also had applications to important real-world questions. I knew almost immediately that that\u2019s what I was going to do.”<\/p>\n

Emerson praised UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa faculty for their support and encouragement, including emeriti professors Mak, Sumner La Croix<\/strong> and Carl Bonham<\/strong>, economics professor and director of the UH<\/abbr> Economic Research Organization. <\/p>\n

More about Tisha Nakao Emerson<\/h2>\n

Born on Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island, the 1989 graduate of Konawaena High School was awarded the Regents Scholarship and enrolled at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, earning her BA<\/abbr> in economics, with distinction, in 1993. She later earned a master\u2019s and PhD<\/abbr> in economics from USC<\/abbr>. <\/p>\n

She is currently the holder of the Ben H. Williams Professorship in Economics at Baylor. <\/p>\n

Emerson\u2019s 2017 article in the Southern Economic Journal<\/em>, “The Gender Gap in Economics Degrees: An Investigation of the Role Model and Quantitative Requirements Hypotheses,” looked at the role model effect of women faculty and quantitative requirements on the female proportion of economics majors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tisha Nakao Emerson credits her former UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa professors for igniting her interest in the field and switching her major from mathematics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[90,301,197,9,1626],"class_list":["post-105858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-alumni","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-economics","tag-uh-manoa","tag-women-of-uh","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105858"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105922,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105858\/revisions\/105922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}