2020 PhD Grads Accept Positions at Yale, Federal Reserve and Uber among others
The 2020 UCLA Ph.D. Economics job market outcomes were released today. Congratulations to all of our students – We are very proud of you! Half the class will stay in academia, including positions at Yale, Southern Methodist, and Reed in the US, and Nottingham, Tsinghua and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics outside the US. […]
CA Unemployment Insurance Claims during the Pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis has led to historically unprecedented increases in the level of initial Unemployment Insurance (UI) claims filed in California since the start of the crisis in mid-March. Till von Wachter and UCLA’s California Policy Lab have partnered with the Labor Market Information Division of the California Employment Development Department to analyze daily UI […]
PhD Student Selected to Attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
The UCLA Department of Economics would like to congratulate doctoral student, Diana Van Patten, who has been selected to participate in the 7th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences, which will now take place in 2021. Ms. Van Patten was nominated to be part of this prestigious group by the UCLA Economics Department, then selected as the […]
John Asker op-ed on Virgin Airlines Bailout
In this op-ed in the Sydney Morning Herald, John Asker argues that the Australian government should bail out Virgin Australia in order to maintain competition in the airline market.
Lee Ohanian discusses the social safety net with PBS News Hour
UCLA’s Professor Lee Ohanian was interviewed by PBS News Hour’s Daniel Bush, to discuss how COVID-19 could reshape America’s social safety net and how this could affect the upcoming election. An excerpt of the article can be found below. Could the coronavirus reshape America’s social safety net? By Daniel Bush The Democratic primary race was […]
Andy Atkeson discusses COVID-19 impact on US Economy on NPR
UCLA’s Professor Andy Atkeson joined Executive Director of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, Christine Mitchell, on NPR’s On Point to discuss the impact COVID-19 will continue to have on our economy and what to expect moving forward. The full audio broadcast can be found by visiting WBUR’s website here. On Point is broadcast […]
David Baqaee awarded NSF Grant
We’d like to congratulate Assistant Professor David Baqaee for being awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for his research titled “Macroeconomics as Explicitly Aggregated Microeconomics.” One of the biggest changes in economics in the 21st century is the increasing availability of comprehensive, high quality, micro-level data on households and firms. To utilize all this […]
Faculty Research Featured in UCLA Anderson Review
The UCLA Anderson Review recently published the article, “Google Says to Hire the Best, but Suppose You Can’t?” written by Dee Gill. This article highlights the research currently being done by Simon Board, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, and Tomasz Sadzik on how top companies tend to “hog the best talent” and how this affects other firms. Below […]
Adriana Lleras-Muney wins the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award
The UCLA Department of Economics would like to congratulate Adriana Lleras-Muney for being awarded the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for best undergraduate teaching in Fall 2019 for her class Econ 130–Public Finance. This course explores the role of governments in the economy. It analyzes why governments intervene in some markets and not others […]
