John Stavick

I am an Assistant Professor in the Howard H. Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 

My research interests include state tax administration and the consequences of budget balancing decisions on the public workforce. I investigate public workforce research questions using administrative state employee payroll data that I collect from 45 states, spanning 94% of all state employees. 

I also teach public budgeting and finance and government/nonprofit accounting to undergraduate and MPA students at the Baker School. 

I completed my PhD in Public Affairs in May 2023 at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Before I embarked on doctoral studies, I was an economist at the Nebraska Department of Revenue (2009-16) and a fiscal analyst at OpenSky Policy Institute (2016-17), both in Lincoln, Nebraska. I previously studied economics at Georgia State University's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies (B.A., 2005; M.A., 2008). 

Latest update: August 1, 2025