Michael Kofoed

Thank You for Visiting

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville with a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the Boyd Center for Business and Economics Research in the Haslam College of Business.  I am an IZA Research Fellow, a visiting scholar at the Consumer Finance Institute at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and an invited researcher at J-PAL North America.  I am also a contributing columnist for the Deseret News.

Previously, I served as an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Social Science at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

 My research interests include the economics of education, higher education finance, economics of financial aid, defense economics, health economics, and applied microeconometrics.

Please feel free to contact me with any comments or questions.  

My email is mkofoed1@utk.edu.

You can also follow me on Twitter at @mikekofoed.