Former UCLA Graduate Student Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero Wins the 2024 Dorothy Thomas Award
Former UCLA Graduate Student Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero, now a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, won the Population Association of America’s highly competitive 2024 Dorothy Thomas Award for best graduate student paper. Her paper, entitled “Sent Away: The Long-Term Effects of Slum Clearance on Children and Families,” documents how Chile’s mandated slum-clearance programs […]
UCLA graduate student Nate Barlow wins the Economic History Early Stage Dissertation Grant
Nate Barlow, a graduate student in the UCLA economics department has won the Economic History Early Stage Dissertation Grant for his project on reparations paid to Japanese internees. The grant is awarded to the most promising dissertations in economic history.
UCLA Professors Board and Meyer-ter-Vehn receive AEJ Best Paper Award
UCLA Professors Simon Board and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn received the American Economic Journal (AEJ) Best Paper Award for their paper ‘A Reputational Theory of Firm Dynamics’ published in the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics in 2022. The annual AEJ Best Paper Award is given to the best paper published in each of the American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, Economic […]
UCLA Professor Martha Bailey Elected a Fellow of the Cliometric Society
Professor Martha Bailey was elected a fellow of the cliometric society. Fellows must have published contributions to economic history that are markedly original and have significantly advanced the frontiers of knowledge. A complete list of Fellows can be found here.
UCLA Professor Martha Bailey Receives Honorary Doctorate from Lund University
UCLA Professor Martha Bailey has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Lund University School of Economics and Management for her research on key issues in labor economics, demography and health in the US from a long-term historical perspective. Professor Bailey is one of the leading economic historians and economists, working at the intersection of labor […]
Paper by UCLA Professor Pierre-Olivier Weill was featured in NBER Digest
A paper by UCLA Professor Pierre-Olivier Weill studying bond trading was featured in the February issue of NBER Digest. The paper finds that, in addition to the characteristics of a bond trade request, the characteristics of the bond trader are important in determining the time to consummating a trade and the failure rate. The February […]
David Henning was awarded this year’s Summit Fellowship in Applied Economics
David Henning is the recipient of this year’s Summit Fellowship in Applied Economics for his work on tax compliance using tax data on firms in Uganda. The award was established by Albert J. Lee to support UCLA students advancing economics through creative use of data. Albert Lee is the Founding Partner and Expert Economist of […]
UCLA Professor Andres Santos named coeditor of the American Economic Review
UCLA Professor Andres Santos has been appointed as coeditor of the American Economic Review, the leading journal in economics.
A paper by UCLA Professor Jay Lu Was Featured in the Anderson Review
A paper by UCLA Professor Jay Lu and coauthor Annie Liang was featured in the Anderson Review. The paper studies the trade-off between accuracy and fairness across groups in designing algorithms — step-by-step instructions for accomplishing a task. The Review article can be found here. The paper can be found here.
UCLA takes Third Place in the Fed Challenge
The UCLA’s team took third place in the annual Fed Challenge, a national competition that asks teams of undergraduate students to analyze the economy and present a monetary policy recommendation to judges from the Federal Reserve. This year, 107 schools took part in the competition, with 3 teams from each of the six regions chosen […]
