John Ifcher
Associate Professor, Economics,
John Ifcher teaches courses in microeconomics, the economics of the public sector, the economics of poverty and income inequality, and economic research methods.
His recent research focuses on decision making on behalf of others, subjective well-being, social welfare programs, and the impact of economics instruction. One recent paper investigates the impact of relative income on subjective well-being; another investigates the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on government- and market-attitudes. He has published articles in the American Economic Review; Experimental Economics; the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization; the Journal of Economic Inequality; the Journal of Economic Psychology; the Journal of Happiness Studies; the Journal of Health Economics; the Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics; and the Review of Economics of the Household.
John Ifcher received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He also received a M.P.A. degree from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and a B.S. in computer science and psychology from the University of Michigan. He worked for the city of New York as the Senior Advisor to the Parks Commissioner between 1993 and 1998.
- John Ifcher and Homa Zarghamee
Management Science
- Goff, Sandra, John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Alex Reents, & Patrick Wade
Contemporary Economic Policy
- John Ifcher, Lina Diaz, Daniel Houser, and Homa Zarghamee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14347
- John Ifcher, Sandra Goff and Homa Zarghamee
In “Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics” (Dr Klaus F. Zimmermann, ed.), Springer December 2021, pp 1-27
- John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Dan Houser, and Lina Diaz
Experimental Economics 23, pp 1205–1234, March 2020
- John Ifcher and Homa Zarghamee
The Journal of Economic Psychology 77, Article 102180, March 2020
- Christine Bachen, Pedro Hernández-Ramos, Chad Raphael, John Ifcher, and Michael Broghammer
Cyberpsychology 13(3), Article 1, 2019
- John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, and Carol Graham
The Journal of Economic Inequality 17, pp 415–434, Sept. 2019
- John Ifcher and Homa Zarghamee
The Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 75, pp 55-65, August 2018
- John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, and Carol Graham
The Journal of Health Economic 49 (3), pp 272–302, April 2018
- John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Amanda Cabacungan
In “Markets, Governance, and Institutions in the Process of Economic Development” (Dr Ajit Mishra and Dr Tridip Ray, eds.), Oxford University Press.
- John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee
In Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy: Volume I: Concepts and Analysis (Joseph E. Stiglitz and Kaushik Basu, eds.), Palgrave: New York, NY (2016) (formerly entitled, “Subjective-Well-Being Inequality and Per Capita Income: Evidence from the World Values Surveys”).
- John Ifcher, Chris Herbst
Review of Economics of the Household 14(3), pp. 529-551, September 2016 formerly entitled, “A Bundle of Joy: Does Parenting Really Make Us Miserable?”
- John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee
Experimental Economics 19 (3), pp. 642–662, September 2016
- John Ifcher, Cassey Boyd-Swan, Chris Herbst, and Homa Zarghamee
The Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 126 (part A),pp. 18-38, June 2016
- John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee
Economic Inquiry 54(4): 1918-1930, April 2016