Economic Models & Bottles: Drinks with Economist Andrew Hanson, Ph.D.

The economy is white hot! Unemployment is record-low! What a great excuse to clink cocktails with your AF colleagues and learn the inside scoop on the Wisconsin economy.

Professor Andrew Hanson from Marquette University will distill the data on Wisconsin’s labor force, and shed light on why a large portion — over 30 percent of Wisconsin workers — are still sitting on the side lines. Enjoy hand crafted, artisan cocktails and complimentary appetizers from Great Lakes Distillery as we hear Professor Hanson’s blueprint for growing Wisconsin’s workforce to its full potential.

 

About the speaker: Andrew Hanson, a Visiting Fellow at the Badger Institute, is an associate professor of economics at Marquette University. He is also an associate fellow of the R Street Institute, a public policy research organization based in Washington, D.C. Before joining the Marquette faculty in 2012, he was as an assistant professor at Georgia State University for four years. From 2005-2006, Hanson served as a staff economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, D.C. His primary fields of interest are public finance and urban economics.