Daniel Barkley, PhD
College of Arts and Sciences
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Biography
Dr. Daniel Barkley earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Irvine, after completing a Graduate Diploma in Operations Research at the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering at UCLA. He has taught economics and statistics at leading institutions, including the University of California (Irvine, San Diego, Riverside), California State University (Fullerton, Long Beach), the University of Cincinnati, the American University of Nigeria, Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth, and Xiamen University in China.
Dr. Barkley is the founder of Economics On The Move (EOTM), a nonprofit dedicated to experiential learning. Through EOTM, he created the “learning by touring” model—taking students into companies such as Toyota Manufacturing, Procter & Gamble, Sony Pictures, the National Bureau of Statistics in Beijing, and the Central Bank of Nigeria to explore how economic theory applies to everyday business and policy.
His research spans productivity and technology adoption in informal manufacturing clusters and gender equity in higher education leadership. His recent NSF-funded study analyzed how university endowments shape the gender pay gap among U.S. university presidents, presented at the International Conference on Gender Research in Portugal.
•Gender equity and leadership in higher education
• Productivity and innovation in informal manufacturing clusters
• Technology adoption and labor market transformation (e.g., 3D printing)
• Applied econometrics and quantitative policy evaluation
• Sports economics: NBA team performance, payroll, and market size
• Development and urban economics
• Principles and Intermediate Microeconomics
• Principles and Intermediate Macroeconomics
• Mathematical Economics and Optimization
• Econometrics and Applied Statistics for Business
• Development and Urban Economics
• International Management and Trade
• Money, Banking, and Financial Markets
• Consumer Behavior • Managerial Economics
• Barkley, D. (2025). War of the Cities, Replayed: Putin’s Missile Strategy and Western Paralysis. Geopolitical Monitor, May 6.
• Barkley, D. (2025). From Drones to Taurus: How Ukraine Strikes Are Shaping German Strategy. Geopolitical Monitor, June 3.
• Barkley, D., & Zhu, J. (2025). Diversity, Endowments and Inclusion: Pay-for-Performance and Gender Differences in University Presidents’ Base Salaries. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Gender Research, 8(1), 520–531.
• Barkley, D. (2021). Empirical Analysis of Rational Expectations and the Permanent Income Hypothesis in Lagos, Nigeria. International Study of Business and Innovation, 1(2).
•Barkley, D. The Mediating Role of Positive Psychological Well-Being between Intercultural Competences and Job Satisfaction of Expatriates: A Research of Structural Equation Modeling. International Journal of Organizational Innovation, Volume 12 Number 3, January 2020.
•Ph.D. in Economics – University of California, Irvine
•Graduate Diploma in Operations Research – London School of Economics
•Bachelor of Science in Engineering – University of California, Los Angele
•National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE AU Career Development Grant – Gender, Leadership, and Sustainability in Higher Education (2023–2024)
• The CRTL Course Design Institute (American University, Washington, D.C.) – Certificate in Effective, Inclusive Course Design (Dec 2023)
• Barcelona School of Economics – Certificates in Statistical Machine Learning for Large and Unstructured Data; Deep Learning and Applications (June–July 2023)
• The State Council, People’s Republic of China – Foreign Expert Certificate (2015–2023)
• Zhejiang University – Summer Mandarin Language Program, Certificate of Completion (2019)
