Faculty Fellow
Eric Thompson
Focus Areas
Education & School Safety
Dr. Eric Thompson is the department chair and Karl H. Nelson Professor of Economics, and the director of the Bureau of Business Research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Dr. Thompson’s research examines the sources and consequences of state and local economic growth and the economics of infrastructure. Through his work at the Bureau of Business Research, Dr. Thompson provides economists with practical opportunities to conduct applied economic research and trains economics and business students to conduct applied research on timely economic and business topics.
Education
Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992
B.A., Public Policy, University of Chicago, 1986