Mary Eschelbach Hansen Professor Economics
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- Degrees
- PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Favorite Spot on Campus
- My office!
- Bio
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Mary Eschelbach Hansen is an expert in U.S. social policy. She is currently working on issues in disability policy. She is widely published in the fields of child policy, bankruptcy, and economic history. Her work addresses key issues in race, gender, and economic inequality.
Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Institute for New Economic Thinking. She has been quoted or cited by news outlets including WAMU, The Economist, Fortune, CNN, and the LA Times. She has given public testimony before the DC City Council and in Federal District Court.
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- To request an interview for a news story, call ĢƵ Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.
Teaching
Fall 2024
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ECON-120 Social Problems in Context
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ECON-120 Social Problems in Context
Spring 2025
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ECON-120 Social Problems in Context
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ECON-120 Social Problems in Context
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ECON-397 Internship in Teaching
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
BOOK
, (with Bradley A. Hansen), University of Chicago Press, 2020.
RECENT REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
“” (with Michael Martell and Leanne Roncolato), Journal of Demographic Economics, 88, 4(2020): 535-562.
"” (with Dongping Xie), Review of Financial Economics 38, S1(2020): 170-187.
“,” (with Michelle M. Miller) Essays in Economic and Business History 38, published online March 2020.
“” (with Jess Grana), Spatial Economic Analysis 14, 4(2019): 446-464.
“” (with Michael Martell and Leanne Roncolato), Review of Economics of the Household: 265-283.
“” (with Erin George and Julie Lyn Routzahn), Journal of Consumer Affairs 52, 3(Fall 2018): 711-732.
” (with Matthew E. Davis and Thomas Husted), Southern Economic Journal 84, 3(January 2018): 771-785.
“” (with Ashley J. Provencher and Nicholas E. Kahn), Child Welfare 95, 1(2017): 27-55.
“” (with Nicholas Kahn and Josh Gupta-Kagan), Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 14, 2(June 2017), pp. 333-369.
“” (with Michael E. Martell), Review of Social Economy 75, 2(June 2017), pp. 159-180.
“” (with Nicholas L. Ziebarth), AEJ: Macroeconomics 9, 2(April 2017), pp. 228-255.
“” (with Bradley A. Hansen), Journal of Institutional Economics 12, 2(April 2016), pp. 349-370.
Media Appearances
(Selected since 2017)
Written statement in Newsweek, “,” March 13, 2023.
Interview, MarketWatch.com, “” May 18, 2023.
Interview, WUSA9, “,” March 24, 2023.
Interview, Wisconsin Public Radio, Central Time, "” March 24, 2022.
Interview, Washington Post, “,” October 17, 2022.
The Washington Post, Made by History, “,” April 24, 2020.
ABC News, “,” October 9, 2018.
Investopedia.com, “,” June 11, 2018.
PsychCentral.com, “How Men and Women View Financial Debt,” April 7, 2018.
Smithsonian.com, "," May 30, 2017.
MarketWatch.com, “Men and Women Have Very Different Relationships with Their Credit Cards,” April 7, 2018.
Vox.com, "," November 3, 2017.
PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony before the Council of the District of Columbia, Committee on Human Services, Hearing on Extending Adoption and Guardianship Subsidies Until Age 21 and Expanding Guardianship Subsidies to Non-Kin, December 12, 2008, and March 4, 2010.
Testimony before the Federal District Court of Rhode Island re: Cassie M. v. Chaffee, December 9, 2013. See coverage in , December 10, 2013.
ĢƵ Experts
Area of Expertise
Bankruptcy, Child Welfare Policies, Personal Finance, Women and Economics, Minimum Wage
Additional Information
Hansen is widely published in the fields of child welfare policy and economic history. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call ĢƵ Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.