Gary A. Hoover (born August 1968) is an American professor of economics and director of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University.
He was tenured in August 2004 and in 2005 became the Assistant Dean for Graduate Student and Faculty Development in the Culverhouse College of Commerce while maintaining full teaching and research duties.
[3] He has published extensively on race and inequality in the United States, and is a leading scholar on plagiarism and other types of misconduct in the economics profession.
He joined the University of Oklahoma as chair of the Department of Economics in January 2015 and was appointed a President's Associates Presidential Professor in 2017.
He published works examining whether student performance improved based on school officials being elected or appointed to their positions.
[11] His earlier works on growth and poverty led him to realize that the area could not be adequately addressed unless he expanded out to examine the entire income distribution and included more discussions of race and ethnicity.
His research showed that the gap widened because the positive benefits were received by non-Black citizens while Black incomes were unaffected.
[15] In June 2004,[16] Hoover published an article outlining how he had been the victim of professional plagiarism of his previous works on growth and poverty.
Yet, data compiled in CSMGEP's annual reports show that the percentage of PhD degrees in economics conferred to Blacks tends to hover around 2-3%, reaching a high of 3.9% in academic year 2017-8.
[18][19] In October 2020, Hoover and fellow CSMGEP co-chair Ebonya Washington pushed the American Economic Association to implement 5 new programs on diversity including an undergraduate essay prize in honor of Andrew Brimmer, a travel grant for underrepresented minorities, and a seed grant for economics departments to start programs aimed at diversity and inclusion.