Rate My Professor Tabitha Chikhladze

Tabitha Chikhladze serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Missouri-Columbia, having joined the faculty in 2023. Her research specialization lies in applied microeconomics, with a particular emphasis on racial disparities in traffic stops and the factors influencing corruption. She contributes to the production of the annual Vehicle Stops Report for the Missouri Attorney General’s Office and volunteers as a data analyst on the Columbia Police Chief’s Vehicle Stops Committee. Chikhladze has authored working papers such as "Missouri Traffic Stops in Black and White," which examines socioeconomic and agency-specific determinants leading to disparate treatment among Black and white drivers in Missouri using traffic stop data from 2010 to 2020, matched with geographic data from the American Community Survey and agency data from the FBI's Crime in the United States Report, applying the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method. Another working paper is "A Reassessment Study of Campante and Do (AER, 2014)." Her ongoing projects include "Excess Stops: A New Measure of Disparities in Traffic Stops" and "Reexamining Political Corruption and Isolated State Capitals." Her dissertation focused on racial disparities in traffic stops. She is affiliated with the Economic and Policy Analysis Research Center (EPARC) at the university.

In her teaching role, Tabitha Chikhladze delivers undergraduate courses including Principles of Microeconomics, Honors Principles of Microeconomics, Managerial Economics, and Public Economics at the University of Missouri. She also teaches in the Honors College. Previously, she instructed courses at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, such as Principles of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, and Economics/Business Statistics from 2017 to 2019. Chikhladze incorporates global perspectives into her classes, drawing from travels with her husband, George Chikhladze, another economics professor at the university, using real-world examples of currencies, market pricing, and economic policies to engage students and foster their interest in economics.