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Research by UCLA Professor Martha Bailey featured in CBS News

October 27, 2025

Research on the first federally-funded family-planning programs…

UCLA Professor Martha Bailey Interviewed on the Financial Times Podcast

October 12, 2025

Sarah O’Connor from the Financial Times interviewed Martha…

Alumnus Spotlight: Terry Kramer ’82 – Supporting UCLA

October 7, 2025

UCLA Economics Alumnus, Terry Kramer ’82, and member of the…

UCLA Professor Till von Wachter and the California Policy Lab awarded a $5.95M grant from Conrad N Hilton Foundation

September 15, 2025

The Conrad N Hilton Foundation has awarded a $5.95 million grant…

Research Spotlight

How a Historic Corporate Tax Cut Reshaped the U.S. Economy

September 2, 2025

By Patrick Kennedy In a sweeping one-time test of corporate tax policy, UCLA economist Patrick Kenne …
Is International Trade Draining Our Water?

July 7, 2025

By Levi Crews Levi Crews It’s an all-too-familiar headline: “In the midst of drought, California far …

Alumni Interviews

Lloyd Greif

Lloyd and Renée Greif, and their children (Ben, Nick and Lauren) at Bruin Woods. UCLA is ranked as t …
Peter Moglia

Peter Moglia On a brisk fall day in 1985, Peter Moglia entered UCLA’s campus as a nervous yet excite …

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Recent Publications

Journal of Political Economy

Colluding against Workers

Vincent Delabastita and Michael Rubens

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage

Jonathan Vogel

American Economic Review

Supply, Demand, Institutions, and Firms: A Theory of Labor Market Sorting and the Wage Distribution

Daniel Haanwinckel

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December 3, 2025

Tom Basin & Baptiste Bernadac
December 3, 2025 11:40 am - 1:00 pm in Bunche 9383
Proseminar in Trade and Spatial Economics - Tom Basin & Baptiste Bernadac

December 3, 2025 11:40 am - 1:00 pm
Bunche 9383

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Eunsun Kim and Jiaer Liu
December 3, 2025 12:00 pm - 12:50 pm in 9294 Bunche
Proseminar in Industrial Organization - Econ 278 - Eunsun Kim and Jiaer Liu

December 3, 2025 12:00 pm - 12:50 pm
9294 Bunche

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Timothy Christensen (Yale)
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm in
Econometrics Workshop - Timothy Christensen (Yale)

December 3, 2025 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

From Unstructured Data to Demand Counterfactuals: Theory and Practice

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December 4, 2025

Bohdan Salahum
December 4, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm in Bunche 9383
Proseminar in Econometrics - Econ 238 - Bohdan Salahum

December 4, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Bunche 9383

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Luciano Pomatto (Caltech)
December 4, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm in Bunche 9383

Modeling information acquisition via f-divergence and duality (with Alex Bloedel and Tommaso Denti)
Workshop in Economic Theory - Luciano Pomatto (Caltech)

December 4, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Bunche 9383

Modeling information acquisition via f-divergence and duality (with Alex Bloedel and Tommaso Denti)

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December 5, 2025

IO Miniconference
December 5, 2025 in

Zach Brown (Michigan)
Why Do Index Funds Have Market Power? Quantifying Frictions in the Index Fund Market

Paul Scott (NYU Stern)
Cows and Trees

Matt Weinberg (Ohio State)
Oligopsony and Collective Bargaining

Steve Berry (Yale)
Selective Turnout, Voting Policy, and Partisan Bias: Evidence from Multi-Level Data
Laub Foundation Workshop in Industrial Organization - IO Miniconference

December 5, 2025

Zach Brown (Michigan)
Why Do Index Funds Have Market Power? Quantifying Frictions in the Index Fund Market

Paul Scott (NYU Stern)
Cows and Trees

Matt Weinberg (Ohio State)
Oligopsony and Collective Bargaining

Steve Berry (Yale)
Selective Turnout, Voting Policy, and Partisan Bias: Evidence from Multi-Level Data

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December 8, 2025

FINALS WEEK

December 8, 2025 - December 12, 2025

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December 9, 2025

FINALS WEEK

December 8, 2025 - December 12, 2025

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Nicholas Emery-Xu
December 9, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm in
Proseminar in Economic Theory - Econ 218 - Nicholas Emery-Xu

December 9, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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2025 Job Market Candidates

Introduction to UCLA Economics

William F. Sharpe Fellowship

Benjamin Graham Value Investing Program

Alumni Career Engagement

Master of Quantitative Economics

2025 Job Market Candidates

Summer Programs

Commencement

News

Research by UCLA Professor Martha Bailey featured in CBS News

UCLA Professor Martha Bailey Interviewed on the Financial Times Podcast

Alumnus Spotlight: Terry Kramer ’82 – Supporting UCLA

UCLA Professor Till von Wachter and the California Policy Lab awarded a $5.95M grant from Conrad N Hilton Foundation

Research Spotlight

How a Historic Corporate Tax Cut Reshaped the U.S. Economy

Is International Trade Draining Our Water?

Alumni Interviews

Lloyd Greif

Peter Moglia

Featured Faculty

Jinyong Hahn

Rosa Matzkin

Michela Giorcelli

Recent Publications

Colluding against Workers

The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage

Supply, Demand, Institutions, and Firms: A Theory of Labor Market Sorting and the Wage Distribution

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