James Flynn is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Farmer School of Business at Miami University.

He completed his B.S. in accounting at James Madison University in 2007, his M.S. in economics at Drexel University in 2016 and his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2023. His research uses quasi-experimental methods to investigate the first and second-order effects which occur when individuals change their behavior in response to policy shifts.

James's work has been published in scholarly outlets such as the Journal of Human Resources, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Health Economics.