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CV (pdf)

Education

• Ph.D., Economics, Washington State University, Expected 2019.
  • Advisor: Gregmar Galinato
  • Fields of Study: Public Economics, Econometrics
• B.A., Economics, Eastern Washington University, 2013.
  • Minors: Mathematics, Government

Research Interests

• Political Economy
• Public Economics
• Economics of Culture and Religion
• Applied Microeconomics

Publications

• M. Keith Chen and Ryne Rohla. “The Effect of Partisanship and Political Advertising on Close Family Ties.” Science, 360, no. 6392 (2018): 1020-1024.

Submitted Papers

• Gregmar Galinato and Ryne Rohla. “Do Privately-Owned Prisons Increase Incarceration Rates?”
  • Revise and resubmit at Labour Economics
• Elisa Long, M. Keith Chen, and Ryne Rohla. “Political Storms: Tracking Hurricane Evacuation Behavior using Smartphone Data.”
  • Under review

Work in Progress

• “The Partisan Tithe: Revealed Preferences for Political Homogeneity in Church Attendance.” (with M. Keith Chen)
• “Determinants of Precinct-Level Voting in the 2008-2016 American Presidential Elections.”
• “Pork and Parties: Spatial Public Capital Allocation and Political Minorities.” (with Christopher Clarke)
• “Politics and Search Choice in Housing Purchases.” (with M. Keith Chen and Yi-Lin Tsai)
• “Development Disparities and Religious Fractionalization in Highly Spatially-Disaggregated Settings.”

Presentations

• Ryne Rohla and M. Keith Chen. “The Partisan Tithe: Revealed Preferences for Political Homogeneity in Church Selection and Attendance.” Western Economics Association International, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2018.
• M. Keith Chen and Ryne Rohla. “Politics Gets Personal: Effects of Salient Partisan Differences on Time Spent at Thanksgiving Dinner.” Washington State University School of Economic Sciences Half-Baked Ideas Seminar, Pullman, Washington, 2017.
• Ryne Rohla. “How Private Prisons Affect Incarceration Likelihood.” Washington State University School of Economic Sciences Department Seminar, Pullman, Washington, 2017.
• Galinato, Gregmar and Ryne Rohla. “Do Privately-Owned Prisons Increase Incarceration Rates?” Western Economics Association International, Portland, Oregon, 2016.
• Ryne Rohla. “A Spatial Caucus Effect: Jesse Jackson and South Carolina in the 1988 Presidential Primaries.” National Conference for Undergraduate Research, La Crosse, Wisconsin, 2013.

Teaching Experience

Instructor — Washington State University

• EconS 102 — Fundamentals of Macroeconomics: Fall 2018
• EconS 320 — Money and Banking: Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 — Online

Developer — Washington State University

• EconS 302 — Intermediate Macroeconomics: Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 — Online

Teaching Assistant — Washington State University

• EconS 302 — Intermediate Macroeconomics: Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, and Spring 2017
• EconS 101 — Fundamentals of Microeconomics: Fall 2013, Spring 2014
• EconS 102 — Fundamentals of Macroeconomics: Fall 2013, Spring 2014

Research Experience

Research Assistant — Washington State University

• Alan Love, Summer 2015

Research Assistant — Eastern Washington University

• Institute for Public Policy and Economic Analysis, May 2012 – June 2013

Awards

Washington State University

• SES Excellence in Research Award, 2018

References

• M. Keith Chen, Associate Professor of Economics, Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095
  • Email: keith.chen@anderson.ucla.edu
• Gregmar Galinato (Advisor), Associate Professor of Economics, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164
  • Email: ggalinato@wsu.edu
• Raymond Batina, Professor of Economics, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164
  • Email: rgb@wsu.edu
• Benjamin Cowan, Associate Professor of Economics, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164
  • Email: ben.cowan@wsu.edu