Stephen Barnes

Stephen Barnes is Director of the LSU Economics & Policy Research Group and an Associate Professor of Research in the Department of Economics at LSU. Dr. Barnes completed his Ph.D. in Economics from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and worked for an economics consulting firm in Connecticut and Dallas before being joining the faculty at LSU in the fall of 2009. Since joining LSU, Dr. Barnes has led projects on a variety of topics in applied economics including over $8 million in grants.