LIFE-M Data Access
The LIFE-M data, which has been more than seven years in the making, have been released. The data can be downloaded from OPEN ICPSR here. The LIFE-M project combines millions of U.S. vital records (birth, marriage, death certificates) with census information into a longitudinal and intergenerational micro-database. With the help of cutting-edge, machine learning techniques, the LIFE-M […]
Lee Ohanian Interviewed by the News-Gazette
UCLA Professor Lee Ohanian was interviewed by the News-Gazette for an article discussing the greatest post-war Presidents of the U.S. The article can be found here.
MQE Distinguished Speaker: John List
The Masters of Quantitative Economics Distinguished Speaker Series featured John List of the University of Chicago being interviewed by Simon Board. Professor List is the Kenneth Griffin Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and one of the leaders in running field experiments. He talked about his experience as Chief Economist at Uber, setting up […]
Paper by Andrew Atkeson and Lee Ohanian Featured in Bloomberg Column
A paper by UCLA Professors Andrew Atkeson and Lee Ohanian was featured in a Bloomberg column discussing the complexity of inflation forecasting. The Bloomberg column can be found here. The article published by Professor Atkeson and Professor Ohanian can be found here.
Paul Clyde Profiled by The Center for Global Health Equity at the University of Michigan
The Center for Global Health Equity at the University of Michigan recently published a profile on Paul Clyde, a graduate of the UCLA’s Economics program (Ph.D ’90). Professor Clyde is currently the Tom Lantos Professor of Business Administration, President of the William Davidson Institute, and a member with the Center for Global Health Equity at […]
David Baqaee Invited to Contribute an Article by the Society for Economic Dynamics
UCLA’s Economics Professor David Baqaee was recently invited by the Society for Economic Dynamics to write an article about his research agenda. The article, Macroeconomics as Explicitly Aggregated Microeconomics, describes Professor Baqaee’s focus on the role of production networks in the transmission of economic shocks. More about SED can be found here.
Newly Elected Economic Theory Fellows 2022: Simon Board and Andrew Atkeson
The Department of Economics congratulates Andrew Atkeson and Simon Board on being named Economic Theory Fellows by the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET). SAET’s purpose is to advance knowledge in theoretical economics and to facilitate communication among researchers in economics, mathematics, game theory, or any other field which is potentially useful to economic […]
The Evolution of Retirement
UCLA Economics Professor Dora Costa’s book, The Evolution of Retirement was recently featured in The Atlantic. In the article, The Future of Work Is a 60-Year Career, the author references Costa’s book in relation to the current discussion regarding increasing the age at which people should retire.
UCLA Econ Places in The Fed Challenge
This year UCLA participated in the Federal Reserve Challenge for the first time. The Fed Challenge is a nationwide competition among colleges and universities in which student-teams formulate a monetary policy recommendation and present it to judges from the Fed. The UCLA team finished first in its division and in the top 6 nationwide. The […]
Martha Bailey’s Research on Paid Leave cited in The Week
UCLA Economics Professor Martha Bailey’s paper on paid family leave was featured in The Week. Her paper “The Long-Term Effects of California’s 2004 Paid Family Leave Act on Women’s Careers: Evidence from U.S. Tax Data” studies the short- and long-term effects of paid family leave on women’s carriers. Read the article here
