{{short description|American economist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Sam Allgood | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | doctoral_advisor = | website = {{URL|https://business.unl.edu/people/sallgood|Official website}} | spouse = Kathy Farrell<ref name=dailynebraskan>{{Cite web |last=Seline |first=Libby |title=There's no such thing as too much time together |url=https://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/theres-no-such-thing-as-too-much-time-together/article_e13b4cc2-15e3-11e8-8e77-eb8fe768140b.html |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=The Daily Nebraskan |date=4 March 2018 |language=en}}</ref> | children = 3 | education = University of Georgia (BA, PhD) | field = Economics | work_institutions = University of Nebraska–Lincoln }}
'''Sam Allgood''' is an American economist. He is the Faculty Director of the Teaching and Learning Center and Edwin J. Faulkner Professor of Economics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is co-editor of the Journal of Economic Education.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Journal of Economic Education |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=vece20& |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=Taylor & Francis |language=en}}</ref> He chaired the American Economic Association’s Committee on Economic Education,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Allgood appointed chair of Committee on Economic Education {{!}} Announce {{!}} University of Nebraska-Lincoln |url=https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/todayatunl/1063/6241 |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=newsroom.unl.edu}}</ref> and is now chair of the Association's Task Force on Outreach to High School and Undergraduate Students in Economics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Committee Spotlight: Q&A with Sam Allgood, the Chair of the Task Force on Outreach to High School and Undergraduate Students in Economics |url=https://www.aeaweb.org/news/committee-spotlight-outreach-allgood-qa |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=www.aeaweb.org |language=en}}</ref>
== Career == Allgood has been a member of the faculty of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln since 1993.{{r|dailynebraskan}} He is a researcher in the area of economic education, with published work on students' knowledge of economics and the impact of studying economics on financial decision-making.<ref name=":0" />
=== Selected works ===
* Allgood, Sam, and William B. Walstad. "The effects of perceived and actual financial literacy on financial behaviors." ''Economic inquiry'' 54, no. 1 (2016): 675–697. * Allgood, Sam, and Kathleen A. Farrell. "The match between CEO and firm." ''the Journal of Business'' 76, no. 2 (2003): 317–341. * Allgood, Sam, William B. Walstad, and John J. Siegfried. "Research on teaching economics to undergraduates." ''Journal of Economic Literature'' 53, no. 2 (2015): 285–325. * Walstad, William B., and Sam Allgood. "What do college seniors know about economics?." ''American Economic Review'' 89, no. 2 (1999): 350–354. * Allgood, Sam, and Arthur Snow. "The marginal cost of raising tax revenue and redistributing income." ''Journal of Political Economy'' 106, no. 6 (1998): 1246–1273.
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