The National Institute of Health Awards UCLA Professor Adriana Lleras-Muney an R01 Grant
Professor Adriana Lleras-Muney receives R01 Grant from the National Institute of Health for her research project “The Effect of Childhood Environments on Adult Health and Mortality”. “In the project, Professor Lleras-Muney constructs a new dataset linking individual childhood environments at a granular level to individual life spans for large representative samples of Blacks and Whites. […]
Paper by UCLA Professor Joao Guerreiro featured in Bloomberg
The paper “Why Do Workers Dislike Inflation? Wage Erosion and Conflict Costs” by UCLA Professor Joao Guerreiro and co-authors Jonathon Hazell, Chen Lian, and Christina Patterson was featured in Bloomberg. The paper provides a potential explanation for why workers dislike inflation. It argues that, with inflation, workers must take costly actions to ensure their nominal […]
UCLA Professor John Asker Named Econometric Society Fellow
UCLA professor John Asker was named Econometric Society Fellow. The Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. More information about the Econometric Society can be found here.
Paper by UCLA Professor Pablo Fajgelbaum Featured in the New York Times
The paper “The Value of De Minimis Imports” by UCLA Professor Pablo Fajgelbaum and coauthor Amit Khandelwal (Yale) was featured in the New York Times. The paper studies the effect of subjecting imports of $800 or less, which currently enter the US duty-free, to tariffs. The paper main finding is that the cost would fall […]
UCLA Professor Michael Rubens wins the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for Spring 2024
UCLA Professor Michael Rubens has won the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for Spring 2024 for his course ECON 106P: Pricing and Strategy. ECON 106P is an upper-advanced elective course in the Business Economics program. It teaches students how to make strategic pricing decisions based on data analysis. The main learning objective is the […]
The National Institutes of Health Awards a $3.1 Million Grant to UCLA Professor Martha Bailey
UCLA Professor Martha Bailey was awarded $3.1 million from the National Institutes of Health for her project, “LIFE-M 2.0: Data Infrastructure for Understanding the Longitudinal and Intergenerational Determinants of Health and Aging.” In process since 2014, the Longitudinal Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-dataset (LIFE-M) project aims to create data infrastructure to understand the influence of early-life […]
Op-Ed by UCLA Professor Lee Ohanian in the Washington Post Proposes a Way to Expand Affordable Housing
An article in the Washington Post by UCLA Professor Lee Ohanian and James A. Schmitz (University of Minnesota) argues that an amendment to the 1974 National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act would expand the demand for manufactured homes – homes built within a factory and delivered to the buyer’s site – an affordable […]
Paper by UCLA Professor Pablo Fajgelbaum featured in the Wall Street Journal
A paper by UCLA Professor Pablo Fajgelbaum studying the effect of tariffs on family welfare was featured in the Wall Street Journal. The paper documents that tariffs are regressive, as they fall more heavily on lower-income families who spend more of their income on cheap imported goods. The issue of the Wall Street Journal can […]
Paper by UCLA Professor Andrew Atkeson featured in the Economist
The paper “There is No Excess Volatility Puzzle” by UCLA Professor Andrew Atkeson and coauthors Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis was featured in the June 8th 20024 edition of the Economist. The paper argues that movements in the price of a broad share index between 1929 and 2023 […]
UCLA Graduate Student Huihuang Zhu is the 2024 recipient of the Treiman Fellowship
The California Center for Population Research selected UCLA Graduate Student Huihuang Zhu as the 2024 recipient of the Treiman Fellowship. Huihuang’s project, “Evaluating the Equity and Efficiency Tradeoffs of Academic Tracking: Lessons from Advanced Placement,” uses event-study and differences-in-differences methodology and finds that the AP program had large effects on the likelihood that high-performing students matriculate in […]
