{"id":1781,"date":"2014-10-02T13:17:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T17:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:40:25","slug":"bates-welcomes-returning-faculty-nathan-tefft-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/2014\/10\/02\/bates-welcomes-returning-faculty-nathan-tefft-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ welcomes returning faculty: Nathan Tefft, economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of Economics Nathan Tefft who returned to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ this fall after a couple of years away, is a health economist with distinctive interests.\u00a0 Professor Tefft tends to focus more on risky health behaviors as they relate to public policy and is fascinated by questions that explore conflicts between good things &#8211; for instance, between personal choice and public health.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about Professor Tefft see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/02\/bates-welcomes-returning-faculty-nathan-tefft-economics\/\">ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ welcomes returning faculty, Nathan Tefft, economics<\/a> in the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ News by Doug Hubley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of Economics Nathan Tefft who returned to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ this fall&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}