Christina Peters

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Christina Peters

Professor of Economics

Economics

Bio

Christina Huber has published in the Journal of Human Capital, Demography, the Southern Economic Journal, Contemporary Economic Policy, and Applied Economics, among others. She earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Degree

PhD in Economics

University of Colorado at Boulder

MA in Economics

University of Colorado at Boulder

BA in Anthropology

Grinnell College

Published Works

  • Huber, P. C., Tackett, M., Padilla, A. (2025). Foreign Education, Gender Legal Rights, and Economic Freedom. Contemporary Economic Policyhttps://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12698.
  • Peters, C., Sauer, K. . Can Mindfulness Meditation Improve Performance? Evidence from a College Classroom. (in press). Education Economics.
  • Calimeris, L., Huber, P. C. (2024). Evidence on Birth Spacing and Child Cognition from Indonesia. Applied Economics, 56(11), 1221-1234. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2023.2175775.
  • Hernandez-Julian, R., Huber, P. C. . Partisan Grading on Another Campus. Economics of Education Review.
  • Hernandez-Julian, R., Huber, P. C. (2023). A Professor Like Me: Face-to-face versus Online. Empirical Economics Letters, 22(10), 57-62. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10113628.
  • Hernandez-Julian, R., Huber, C. (2022). Why Try? The Superstar Effect in Academic Performance. Eastern Economic Journal, 48(1), 147-165. .
  • Hernandez-Julian, R., Huber, P. C. (2018). Physical Appearance and Peer Effects in Academic Performance. Applied Economics Letters, 25(13), 887-890. .
  • Calimeris, L., Huber, P. C. (2017). Food for Thought: The Birth Order Effect and Resource Allocation in Indonesia. Applied Economics, 49(54), 5523-5534. .
  • Huber, P. C. (2017). Microfinance and Female Group Action in Bangladesh. Review of Development Economics, 21(1), 21-42. .
  • Hernandez-Julian, R., Huber, P. C. (2017). Student Appearance and Academic Performance. Journal of Human Capital, 11(2), 247-262. https://doi.org/10.1086/691698.
  • Hernandez-Julian, R., Mansour, H., Huber, P. C. (2014). The Effects of Intrauterine Malnutrition on Birth and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from the 1974 Bangladesh Famine. Demography, 51(5), 1775-1796. .
  • Huber, P. C., Rees, I. D., Hernandez-Julian, R. (2014). The Tradeoff Between Family Size and Child Health. Eastern Economic Journal, 40(1), 71-95. www.palgrave-journals.com/eej/journal/v40/n1/abs/eej201236a.html.
  • Mobarak, A., Kuhn, R., Huber, P. C. (2013). Consanguinity and Other Marriage Market Effects of a Wealth Shock in Bangladesh. Demography, 50845-1871. .
  • Hernandez-Julian, R., Huber, P. C. (2012). Does the Medium Matter? Online versus Paper Coursework. Southern Economic Journal, 78(4), 1333-1345. .
  • Huber, P. C., Sauer, K. (2011). A Survey of Medical Tourism Service Providers. Journal of Marketing Development and Competitiveness, 5(3), 117-126. .
  • Huber, P. C. (2011). Effects of Family Planning and Health Services on Women's Welfare: Evidence on Dowries and Intra-Household Bargaining in Bangladesh. Review of Economics of the Household, 9(3), 327-348. .
  • Huber, P. C., Sprout, R., Melzig, R. (2010). Regional Poverty Disparity and Economic Performance in Eastern Europe and Eurasia . Post-Communist Economies, 22(3), 345-365. .
  • Caulkins, D. D., Huber, P. C. (2002). Grid-Group Analysis, Social Capital and Entrepreneurship Among North-American Ethnic Groups. Cross-Cultural Research, 36(1), 48-72. .

Research Interests

Dr. Huber's main research interests include issues of maternal and child health in developing countries, economics of the family, and determinants of student academic performance.

Teaching Interests

Dr. Huber teaches courses in Development Economics, Economics of Race and Gender, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, and Econometrics.