Former Economics Professor Guido Imbens Wins 2021 Nobel Prize
Former UCLA faculty member Guido Imbens won a 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in economic sciences Monday… Read More…
Natalie Bau featured in The Print
UCLA’s Natalie Bau was recently featured in ThePrint.in. ThePrint.in is a news, analysis, opinion and knowledge venture, launched in August 2017 by editor Shekhar Gupta. It is sharply focused on politics and policy, government and governance. Its leadership team …
Biden’s $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill compared to the New Deal, Great Society and War on Poverty
UCLA Economics Professor Martha Bailey’s work on the War on Poverty was featured in the Washington Post in relation to the current Biden infrastructure bill. Her co-edited book, Legacies of the War on Poverty, and her recent paper on …
Adriana Lleras-Muney Receives NIH R21 Grant Award
A big congratulations to Adriana Lleras-Muney, who recently received an R21 grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to study the health impacts of long-run exposure to pollution using evidence from military personnel. The R21 grant mechanism is …
Newly Elected Econometric Society Fellows 2021: Simon Board
The Department of Economics congratulates Simon Board, the Benjamin Graham Centennial Professor in Value Investing, on being named a Fellow of the Econometric Society The Econometric Society is one of the most prestigious learned society in the field of …
Michela Giorcelli Wins Excellence Awards
On September 4th, Michela Giorcelli was one of two young economists based in the United States to receive this year’s Excellence Awards in Global Economics Affairs from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. The other recipient, Javier Cravino, …
The UCLA School of Economics
Recently, a book was published recounting the history of the UCLA Economics Department. This book, written by David R. Henderson and Steven Globerman, discusses some of the most important economists at UCLA during the 1970s: Armen Alchian, Harold Demsetz, Sam …
Lee Ohanian op-ed on Low Labor Productivity Growth
In this op-ed in The Hill, UCLA Professor Lee Ohanian argues that Washington should address historically low labor productivity growth.
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Natalie Bau op-ed on Learning In Pakistani Schools
In this op-ed published in Dawn, Natalie Bau and Jishnu Das measure learning in Pakistani schools and provide new evidence that learning is fragile, with children forgetting much of what they know from year to year.
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Simon Board becomes Editor of Theoretical Economics
On July 1st, Simon Board took over as lead Editor of Theoretical Economics after spending four years as Co-Editor. Theoretical Economics is the leading journal in economic theory. It is open access and is a journal of the …
