UCLA Professor Juliana Londoño-Vélez and UCLA graduate student Estefanía Saravia have been awarded the Arrow Award for their article, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children,” published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics. The Arrow Award celebrates excellence in health economics and is presented annually to the authors of the best health […]
In the VoxDev Development Economics podcast, UCLA Professor Adriana Lleras-Muney explores the complex relationship between poverty and health, the forces that shape it, and what policymakers can do to improve outcomes. The podcast can be found here.
A paper by UCLA economist Martha Bailey, “The Economics of Childbearing: Trends, Progress, and Challenges,” is featured in a recent New York Times article on fertility trends in the United States. The article highlights Bailey’s analysis of recent declines in U.S. fertility, emphasizing that lower birth rates may reflect delayed childbearing rather than a permanent decision to forgo motherhood. […]
Ryan Longmuir, a graduate student in the Department of Economics, has been named one of three recipients of the UC President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship for 2026–2027. The fellowship supports graduate students who are interested in pursuing academic careers and helps prepare them for future roles in the professoriate. More information about the fellowship is available here.
In early March, alumni from a wide range of fields returned to our beautiful campus for the Economics in Action conference. Students in two courses—U.S. Economic History and Introduction to Urban and Regional Economics—had spent weeks preparing research projects to present to visiting alumni. Working in groups of four, students delivered 15-minute presentations followed by […]
A new paper by UCLA economist Martha Bailey, “The Economics of Childbearing: Trends, Progress, and Challenges,” has been featured in The New York Times. The article highlights Bailey’s analysis of how childbearing in the United States has changed over the past century, with particular attention to the distinctive patterns that have emerged since the 1960s […]
We are delighted to congratulate Professor Juliana Londoño Vélez, one of the 2026 recipients of the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship. These highly competitive fellowships are awarded each year to a select group of outstanding early-career scientists in the United States and Canada. Sloan Research Fellowships recognize exceptional promise in the fields of Chemistry, Computer Science, […]
Peilin Rao, a double major in Economics and Mathematics of Computation, was selected for the competitive UCLA’s 2026 URC-HASS Undergraduate Research Fellows Program. The title of the project for his fellowship is: “A Bayesian HJB Framework for Robust Monetary Policy under Structural Uncertainty”. He will work under the supervision of UCLA Professor Randall Rojas. Peilin has already two working […]
The paper “ Does Increasing Financial Access to Contraception in the U.S. Reduce Undesired Pregnancies? Evidence from the M-CARES Randomized Control Trial at Two Years” by UCLA Professor Martha Bailey and coauthors was featured in the New York Times. The paper uses a randomized controlled trial to examine how the costs of contraception affect choice […]
UCLA’s team took third place in the annual Fed Challenge, a national competition that asks teams of undergraduate students to analyze the economy and present a monetary policy recommendation to judges from the Federal Reserve. This year, 139 schools took part in the competition, with 3 teams from each of the six regions chosen to […]
