UCLA Professor Will Rafey contributes to the Fifth National Climate Assessment

UCLA Professor Will Rafey contributes to the writing of the Fifth National Climate Assessment released by the White House. The report highlights the widespread negative effects of climate change with the most damaging effects for low-income communities. The full report can be found here. Professor Rafey’s contribution was also discussed in the following UCLA Newsroom […]

UCLA Professor Von Wachter Receives Funding from the California Collaborative for Pandemic Recovery and Readiness Research

UCLA Professor Till Von Wachter has received an award from The California Collaborative for Pandemic Recovery and Readiness Research for their research on how workers fared under different unemployment insurance programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.The research will help to address evidence gaps in how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the health and wellbeing of communities throughout […]

Simon Board Awarded the Spring 2023 Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award

Simon Board won the Spring 2023 Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for his new class “Econ 106S: Competitive Strategy”. This class uses a combination of economic principles and case studies to discuss the economic forces underlying successful business strategy. Specifically, it teaches students to identify sources of sustainable competitive advantage and to understand the […]

Ph.D. Student Sungwoo Cho Wins the First Summit Consulting Fellowship

We are delighted to report that Sungwoo Cho is the first winner of the Summit Consulting Fellowship. The Summit Fellowship is awarded to graduate students advancing economics through creative use of data.  Sungwoo is looking at the use of robots/machines to call balls and strikes in professional baseball.  He had data on all pitches in […]