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Dr. Angela Dills is Professor of Economics and the Gimelstob-Landry Distinguished Professor of Regional Economic Development at Western Carolina University. She received a B.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University. She previously held faculty positions at Clemson University, Mercer University, Wellesley College, and Providence College. Currently she is a trustee of the Southern Economic Association, a fellow at EdChoice, and an advisory board member at the Economic Freedom Institute. Her research and passions center on policy questions in education and health. In the economics of education, she’s written on a variety of school choice topics — magnet schools, Tiebout Choice, homeschooling, Catholic schools, vouchers, and charter schools. Research in higher education includes a variety of issues such as the effects of timing of classes, of peer composition, and college quality. This work has been published in Education Finance and Policy, Economic Inquiry, Economic Letters, Peabody Journal of Education, and the Economics of Education Review where she serves on the editorial board. Current work includes estimating the effect of additional college advising and how the Supreme Court decisions declaring prayer in school unconstitutional affected public schools. In the economics of health, her work focuses on drug and alcohol policy, driving policies, and health insurance mandates. Her paper with Sean Mulholland, “Ride-sharing, vehicle crashes, and crime”, won the Georgescu-Roegen Prize for best paper in the 2018 Southern Economic Journal. Current work includes estimating the effect of insurance mandates to cover telemedicine and the political economy of drug and alcohol regulation during the pandemic. Dr. Dills lives in Franklin, NC with her husband and coauthor, Sean Mulholland, and their three children, Julian, Porter, and Kathryn.
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