Associate Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8391

E-mail: HaugeS@ripon.edu

Personal Web page

Education

• B.A. in Economics, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn.
• M.S. and Ph.D. in economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Awards and Honors

• Ripon College Curriculum Development Grant, 2006
• Ripon College Scholarly/Artistic Grant, 2005
• CLACS Regional Faculty Associate Travel Grants, 2003 and 2004
• May Bumby Severy, Class of 1908, Award, 2002

Areas of Interest

• Research: Microfinance, Microenterprise Development and Ecological Conservation, Rural Credit Markets
• Teaching: development, environmental and international economics; econometrics; and Latin American Area Studies

Recent Presentations and Publications

• "Metodología del Estudio," chapter 1 in El Impacto Social delas Microfinanzas en Nicaragua (The Social Impact of Microfinance in Nicaragua) Managua, Nicaragua: WDDN, FIDEG & ASOMIF, September 2007.
  
• "Planning the Pacific Slope Trail of Costa Rica: Local and International Collaboration for International Ecotourism."  North Central Council of Latin Americanists, October 2005.
  
• "Fostering Ecological Conservation and Community Development through International Ecotourism: Demand for Ecotourism Services along the Pacific Slope Trail of Costa Rica."  With Julian Becker.  North Central Council of Latin Americanists, October 2005.
  
• "Household, Group and Program Factors in Group-Based Agricultural Credit Delinquency."  Forthcoming in Perspectives on Global Technology and Development.
  
• "Effects of Market-oriented Land Reforms on Access to Agricultural Credit in Honduras."  With Brad Barham, Steve Boucher and Reka Sundaram-Stukel.  Midwest Economics Association, March 2004.
  

Courses Taught

• ECON 211/212 Principles of Economics: Macro/Micro
• ECON 300 Exploring Sustainability and Development in Costa Rica
• ECON 332 Resource and Environmental Economics
• ECON 341 Introduction to Econometrics
• ECON 361/461 Development Economics I/II
• ECON 452 International Economics