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Ahmed El Fatmaoui
Instructor
Economics
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Ahmed El Fatmaoui
Instructor
Economics
Specialty area(s)
Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Health Economics
Brief biography
Ahmed is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Department of Economics. He is an applied microeconomist with interests in labor economics, economics of education, and health economics. His primary research interest examines how institutional policies and resources affect student outcomes in higher education, focusing on college costs, sports, and amenities. Additionally, he studies public health policies, particularly investigating vaccination programs' impacts on maternal and infant health outcomes, and the relationship between substance legalization and healthcare decisions. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Oklahoma-Norman.
Current courses at UWL
Data Analysis for Business Applications (ECO 230)
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 2025
Career
Teaching history
Principles of Economics-Micro (ECON-1123), University of Oklahoma, 2025, 2022
Principles of Economics-Macro (ECON-1113), University of Oklahoma, 2023
Elements of Statistics (ECON 2843), University of Oklahoma, 2021, 2022
Fundamental Algebra (DMAT-0115), University of Central Oklahoma, 2018
Professional history
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2025-Current
Research Assistant, University of Oklahoma, 2021-2025
Teaching Assistant, University of Oklahoma, 2020-2021
Teaching Assistant, University of Central Oklahoma, 2018-2019
Research and publishing
[4] "Vaccine production and innovation: insights from tort reform and Medicare expansion," (with Myongjin Kim, Firat Demir, Qi Ge, Pallab Ghosh, and Junying Zhao), 2025, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 1-28.
[3] "Did the Medicaid expansion improve immunization among US pregnant women?" (with Junying Zhao, Rashmi Jaggad, and Pallab K. Ghosh), 2025, Preventive Medicine Reports, 103214.
[2] "From high school to higher education: Is recreational marijuana a consumption amenity for US college students?" 2024, Economic Inquiry, 62(3): 1024-1045.
[1] "Persistence homology of networks: methods and applications," (with Mehmet Aktas and Esra Akbas), 2019, Applied Network Science, 4(1): 1-28.