CV
JOHN L. HARTMAN
(revised June 2026)
Contact Information:
2127 North Hall
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9210
Email: John.Hartman@ucsb.edu
Current Position:
Assistant Teaching Professor and Faculty Undergraduate Advisor, July 2023 to present
Previous Positions:
Lecturer/Continuing Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of California Santa Barbara, 2008-2023
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Economics, University of California Santa Barbara, 2007-2012
Education:
B.A., Economics, San Diego State University, May 1999
B.A., Mathematics, San Diego State University, May 1999
M.A., Economics, University of California Santa Barbara, September 2002
Ph.D., Economics, University of California Santa Barbara, June 2007
Research Interests
Education of Economics, especially using Experimental Methods
Publications:
“Coordination and Contagion: Individual Connections and Peer Mechanisms in a Randomized Field Experiment,” Journal of Public Economics, 2020 (with Philip Babcock, Kelly Bedard, and Stefanie Fischer), 185.
“Letting Down the Team? Social Effects of Team Incentives,” Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015 (with Philip Babcock, Kelly Bedard, Gary Charness, and Heather Royer), 13(5): 841-870.
“A Route Choice Experiment With an Efficient Toll,” Networks and Spatial Economics, 2012, 12(2): 205-222.
“Demographics and the Political Sustainability of Pay-as-You-Go Social Security.” (with Theodore C. Bergstrom), in Pension Strategies in Europe and the United States, 2008, edited by Robert Fenge, George de Ménil, and Pierre Pestieau.
Research in Progress:
“Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Measuring the Effectiveness of Team Contracts in a Randomized Control Experiment,” part of lead author group with Ashley Chiang, Ishita Dey, Chelsea T. Dowell, Amy Eremionkhale, Fulya Ersoy, and Douglas McKee; other authors who facilitated data collection not listed but available on request.
“‘Maximizing Potential’ and the ‘Bridge to STEM’ Summer Bridge Course,” with Nathan Emery, Eduardo Gonzalez-Nino, Crisjoe Joseph, and the UC Santa Barbara Office of Teaching and Learning.
Courses taught:
Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Introductory Statistics, Public Finance, Experimental Economics (Undergraduate and Master’s), Corporate Finance (Undergraduate and Master’s), Entering Economics for Transfer Students, Entering in a STEM field for First-Year Students
Current and recent committee work, service, and teaching development:
Pedagogy Innovation Initiative (Initiated by the Social Science Dean’s office, March 2024 to present; co-chair Fall 2025 to present)
Task force on the potential formation of a Senate Committee on Teaching (UCSB Teaching Professors Network, Fall 2024 to present, co-chair)
Faculty Undergraduate Advisor (2014 to present)
Academic Senate Undergraduate Council (Fall 2018 to Summer 2021), including sub-committee considering temporary flexibility of P/NP grades (Fall 2020 to Spring 2021)
RISE (Reimagine Instruction for the Student Experience) Institute (Summer 2020)
Department of Economics committees: Undergraduate (2013 to present), Undergraduate Student Success Committee (2020 to present), Undergraduate Operational Subcommittee (2022 to present)
Faculty seminar through Opening New Doors to Accelerating Success (ONDAS), funded by a Department of Education Hispanic-Serving Institution grant (2016-17 academic year)
Transfer Student Center Advisory Committee (Fall 2016 to Winter 2020)
Professional Activities:
Invited Seminars: McMaster University (2007), University of Kentucky (2007)
Conference Presentations: TeachECONference (2026, 2024), AEA Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (2026, 2024), Southern Economic Association (2025), University of California Teaching Professor Network (TPN) Meeting (2026, 2024), Southwest Economic Theory Conference (2011), Economic Science Association North American Meetings (2010, 2007), International Economic Science Association Conference (2009, 2008), First International Conference on Funding Transportation Infrastructure (2006), CESifo/Delta Conference on Strategies for Reforming Pension Schemes (2004)
Grants:
Tenth Annual AEA Conference on Teaching and Research in Economics Education, University of California Santa Barbara Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Grant, 2019-2020 ($1,500, not used due to COVID-19 pandemic)
Ninth Annual AEA Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education, University of California Santa Barbara Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Grant, 2018-2019 ($1,000)
Seventh Annual AEA Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education, University of California Santa Barbara Non-Senate Faculty Professional Fund Grant, 2016-2017, ($900)
Sixth Annual AEA Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education, University of California Santa Barbara Non-Senate Faculty Professional Fund Grant, 2015-2016, ($450)
“An Experiment on: Letting Down the Team? Social Effects of Team Incentives,” University of California Santa Barbara Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Fund Grant, 2013-2014, ($1,000)
“An Experiment to Test the Effects of Taxes and Rebates When an Electricity Grid Is Near Capacity,” University of California Santa Barbara Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Fund Grant, 2007-2008, ($2,320), Principal Investigator
“Experimental Congestion Topics with Various Heterogeneous Profiles on Subjects,” University of California Transportation Center Doctoral Research Dissertation Award, 2006-2007, ($15,000), Principal Investigator
Research Grant, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Economics, 2005, 2006 ($2,000 each), Principal Investigator
Referee:
Transportation Research Part B, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Human Resources