Rate My Professor Brendan Cushing-Daniels

His research interests encompass welfare expenditures, Social Security, applied microeconometrics, poverty and inequality, social insurance programs, labor economics including wage penalties and discrimination, criminal recidivism, economic mobility, and policy topics such as the Family and Medical Leave Act and Marsy's Law. Notable publications include 'Wage Penalties and Sexual Orientation: An Update Using the General Social Survey' (Contemporary Economic Policy, 2009, with Tsz-Ying Yeung), 'Even the Errors Discriminate: How The Split-Population Model of Criminal Recidivism Makes Justice Even Less Colorblind' (Review of Black Political Economy, 2005), and 'Whistle Bans and Property Values: What Price Silence?' (Transportation Research Part D, 2005, with Patrick Murray). He authored the book Higher Education Is History: How the Legacy of Exclusion Impedes Socioeconomic Mobility. Cushing-Daniels teaches all levels of microeconomics, public economics, labor economics, a first-year seminar on poverty and inequality, history of economic thought, and macroeconomics. Among his honors are the Dr. Ralph Cavaliere Endowed Teaching Award (2024), Johnson Center for Creative Teaching and Learning Excellence in Teaching Award (2017), and Order of Omega Outstanding Economics Professor (2007). He co-chairs the Finance, Economics program (Bachelor of Science track), co-chairs the Student Success Task Force, and advises the Pennsylvania Beta chapter of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.