Professor Yotam Shem-Tov Awarded 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship
We are proud to congratulate Professor Yotam Shem-Tov, one of the 2025 winners of the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship. The Sloan Fellowships are extremely competitive awards with just a handful of recipients selected each year from among the best scientists throughout the United States and Canada. Fellowships are awarded in the areas of Chemistry, Computer […]
Jacob Kohlhepp wins the Oliver Williamson Best Conference Paper Award
Jacob Kohlhepp, who received his Ph.D. from the UCLA economics department in 2023 and is now a Professor at the University of North Carolina, was awarded the Oliver Williamson Best Conference Paper Award for his paper “The Inner Beauty of Firms.” The award is given to the best paper presented at the Society for Institutional & […]
Paper by UCLA Professor Pablo Fajgelbaum Featured in the Economist and Reuters
The paper “The Value of De Minimis Imports” by UCLA Professor Pablo Fajgelbaum and coauthor Amit Khandelwal (Yale) was featured in the Economist and Reuters. 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 […]
Professor Dora Costa Featured in The New York Times: Exploring Historical Perspectives on American Health
Our faculty member, Professor Dora Costa, was featured in a recent New York Times article titled “Have Americans Really Been Healthy?“. The article explores the historical context of health in the United States, with Professor Costa providing insights into the challenges of American diets and lifestyle in the 19th and early 20th centuries. She highlights […]
UCLA Professor Alexander Bloedel Named Associate Editor at the JEEA
UCLA Professor Alexander Bloedel has been appointed as associate editor at the Journal of the European Economic Association
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 […]
