# Sam Allgood

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{{short description|American economist}}
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| name              = Sam Allgood
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| 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](/source/University_of_Georgia) ([BA](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts), [PhD](/source/PhD))
| field             = Economics
| work_institutions = [University of Nebraska–Lincoln](/source/University_of_Nebraska%E2%80%93Lincoln)
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'''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](/source/University_of_Nebraska%E2%80%93Lincoln). He is co-editor of the [Journal of Economic Education](/source/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](/source/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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