Beau Allen Sauley

Assistant Professor of Economics beausauley.weebly.com

Department of Economics
+1 (937) 269-8381
Murray State University
Murray, KY BeauEcon@gmail.com
Citizenship: United States @BeauEcon
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Education
Ph.D., Economics 2021 University of Cincinnati
M.S., Economics 2015 University of Kentucky
B.S., Financial Economics 2013 Centre College

Publications
• Sump, Courtney, et al. ”Disparities in the Diagnosis and Management of Infants Hospitalized With Inadequate
Weight Gain.” Hospital Pediatrics 14.1 (2024): 21-29.
• Cornwall, Gary J., Beau A. Sauley. “Indirect Efects and Causal Inference: Reconsidering Regression Disconti-
nuity.” Journal of Spatial Econometrics 2.1 (2021): 1-28
• Cornwall, Gary J., Jeffrey A. Mills, Beau A. Sauley, and Huibin Weng. “Predictive Testing for Granger
Causality via Posterior Simulation and Cross-validation.” Topics in Identification, Limited Dependent Variables,
Partial Observability, Experimentation, and Flexible Modeling: Part A (Advances in Econometrics) 40 (2019):
275-292.
• Strawn, Jeffrey R., Jeffrey A. Mills, Beau A. Sauley, and Jeffrey A. Welge. “The impact of antidepressant dose
and class on treatment response in pediatric anxiety disorders: a meta-analysis.” Journal of the American
Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 57.4 (2018): 235-244.

Working Papers & Projects Under Development

“When the Levy Breaks: How Failing Renewal School Levies Effects Housing Prices”
(with Gary Cornwall, Jeremy Moulton, and Scott Wentland)

“Bayesian Inference with M&M’s: An in Class Experiment” - Under Review

“Passing the Test: Hypothesis Testing in an Era of Machine Learning”

(with Gary Cornwall, and Jeff Chen) - Under Review

“Public Transportation’s Effect on the Housing Market: Evidence from the Cincinnati Streetcar”

“Kentucky Wired: Returns to Education from Increasing High-Speed Internet Availability”

(with Simone Silva)
“Financial Reform and Mortgage Lending in America’s Heartland”
(with Tim Bianco, and Gary Cornwall)

Positions
Murray State University
Assistant Professor of Economics Fall 2021-Present
Xavier University
Adjunct Professor of Economics Fall 2020
Visiting Professor of Economics Spring 2021

Invited Seminars
2019 “When the Levy Breaks: How Failing Renewal School Levies Effects Housing Prices”
Centre College
2019 “What Happens to Housing Values When Schools Lose Money?”
Allegheny College
Conference Presentations
2023 “How Dodd-Frank regulations altered mortgage lending from America’s largest banks”
Kentucky Economic Association
2022 “Kentucky Wired: Returns to Education from Increasing High-Speed Internet Availability”
Southern Economic Association
2022 “Kentucky Wired: Returns to Education from Increasing High-Speed Internet Availability”
Kentucky Economic Association
2021 “Public Transportation’s Effect on the Housing Market: Evidence from the Cincinnati Streetcar”
Southern Economic Association
2020 “What Happens to Housing Values When Schools Lose Money?”
Southern Regional Sciences Association (Virtual Presentation)
2019 “School funding’s effect on housing prices: a spatial regression discontiuty approach”
North American Regional Sciences Conference
2019 “School funding’s effect on housing prices: a spatial regression discontiuty approach”
Kentucky Economics Association
2019 “School funding’s effect on housing prices: a spatial regression discontiuty approach”
Midwest Econometrics Group
2019 “Indirect Effects and Causal Inference: Reconsidering Regression Discontinuity”
Applied Economics, Regional, and Urban Studies
2019 “Indirect Effects and Causal Inference: Reconsidering Regression Discontinuity”
Southern Regional Sciences Association
2017 “Predictive Testing for Granger Causality via Posterior Simulation and Cross-validation.”
Midwest Economics Association
2017 “Indirect Effects and Causal Inference: Reconsidering Regression Discontinuity”
Midwest Econometrics Group

Teaching Experience
Introduction to Microeconomics MSU/UC 14 course sections
Introduction to Macroeconomics UC/XU 7 course sections
Introductory/Applied Econometrics MSU/UC 5 course sections
Business and Economic Data Analytics MSU 4 course sections
American Business and Regulation UC 2 course sections
The Economy of China UC 1 course section
Undergraduate Advising
Honors Thesis Advisor 2022 MSU Trevor Grant
Honors Thesis Advisor 2022 MSU Garrett Clark
Senior Seminar Advisor 2022 MSU Greta Culler Best Undergraduate Paper award at 2022 KEA meeting
Honors Thesis Chair 2022 MSU Ben Hoeke
Honors Thesis Advisor 2023 MSU Sam Spencer
Honors Thesis Advisor 2023 MSU Jenna McClain
Honors Thesis Chair 2023 MSU Ben McCormick
Honors Thesis Chair 2023 MSU Evan Pals

Professional and Academic Affiliations

Kentucky Economics Association Board Member 2023-present
American Economic Association
Southern Economic Association
Southern Regional Sciences Association