A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he holds a Ph.D. in economics from Washington University, St. Louis. He is interested in the relation of economic growth to poverty, and has co-authored two papers on that subject. One of them, forthcoming in the Journal of Income Distribution, examines the effect of growth on officially measured poverty and on a Sen index created by the authors. Professor Hoover will visit IRP during the week of March 18, 2002.