Sam R. Absher is an associate economist at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. He uses applied economics to study a wide range of questions: What effect did the Rose Revolution have on the economics and politics of Georgia? What role did cell phones really play in Libya’s 2011 “Twitter Revolution”? Is the U.S. Army's Basic Allowance for Housing still adequate given recent changes in housing markets? His current work focuses on the U.S. military's basic pay tables and their relationship to domestic labor markets. He’s also a faculty member at Pardee RAND Graduate School where he teaches cost benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis and microeconomics. Before joining RAND, Absher was a postdoctoral researcher at the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University. He has a Ph.D. and B.A. in economics from the University of Oklahoma.
B.A. in economics, University of Oklahoma; Ph.D. in economics, University of Oklahoma
