Mark Skidmore

Biography

Mark Skidmore is Professor of Economics and Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University, where he holds the Morris Chair in State and Local Government Finance and Policy. He also serves as Director of the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development. He received his doctorate in economics from the University of Colorado in 1994, and his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Washington in 1987. He currently serves as Co-editor of the Journal of Urban ... Affairs and is a Distinguished Scholar at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Professor Skidmore has expertise in regional economics and public finance and policy. Current interests include policy responses to behavioral health challenges, state and local government tax and spending policies, intergovernmental relations, the interrelationship between public sector decisions and economic activity, and the economics of natural disasters. His work has been funded by the Fulbright Program, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the National Science Foundation, SAMHSA, Urban Institute, USDA, and USAID. His research has appeared in many professional journals such as Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society, Economic Inquiry, Economics Letters, Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Urban Economics, Land Economics, National Tax Journal, Real Estate Economics, Public Choice, and Regional Science and Urban Economics, and has been cited in prominent news outlets such as the BBC, Boston Globe, CNNMoney, Economist, Forbes, MSNBC, Newsweek, New Yorker, New York Times, PBS News Hour, Reuters, and the Washington Post. More information about his research activities are available at https://www.canr.msu.edu/people/mark_skidmore.