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 […]
The National Institutes of Health Awards a $3.1 Million Grant to UCLA Professor Martha Bailey
UCLA Professor Martha Bailey was awarded $3.1 million from the National Institutes of Health for her project, “LIFE-M 2.0: Data Infrastructure for Understanding the Longitudinal and Intergenerational Determinants of Health and Aging.” In process since 2014, the Longitudinal Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-dataset (LIFE-M) project aims to create data infrastructure to understand the influence of early-life […]
Op-Ed by UCLA Professor Lee Ohanian in the Washington Post Proposes a Way to Expand Affordable Housing
An article in the Washington Post by UCLA Professor Lee Ohanian and James A. Schmitz (University of Minnesota) argues that an amendment to the 1974 National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act would expand the demand for manufactured homes – homes built within a factory and delivered to the buyer’s site – an affordable […]
Paper by UCLA Professor Pablo Fajgelbaum featured in the Wall Street Journal
A paper by UCLA Professor Pablo Fajgelbaum studying the effect of tariffs on family welfare was featured in the Wall Street Journal. The paper documents that tariffs are regressive, as they fall more heavily on lower-income families who spend more of their income on cheap imported goods. The issue of the Wall Street Journal can […]
Paper by UCLA Professor Andrew Atkeson featured in the Economist
The paper “There is No Excess Volatility Puzzle” by UCLA Professor Andrew Atkeson and coauthors Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis was featured in the June 8th 20024 edition of the Economist. The paper argues that movements in the price of a broad share index between 1929 and 2023 […]
UCLA Graduate Student Huihuang Zhu is the 2024 recipient of the Treiman Fellowship
The California Center for Population Research selected UCLA Graduate Student Huihuang Zhu as the 2024 recipient of the Treiman Fellowship. Huihuang’s project, “Evaluating the Equity and Efficiency Tradeoffs of Academic Tracking: Lessons from Advanced Placement,” uses event-study and differences-in-differences methodology and finds that the AP program had large effects on the likelihood that high-performing students matriculate in […]
UCLA Professor Martin Hackmann wins the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for Winter 2024
UCLA Professor Martin Hackmann has won the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for Winter 2024 for his course Econ131: Economics of Health and Healthcare. The course focuses on the economic analysis of the U.S. medical care sector, a major industry with $4.5 trillion in spending, accounting for 17% of GDP. It delves into the […]
UCLA Professor Bernardo Silveira guest editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
The Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization has invited UCLA Professor Bernardo Silveira to be a guest editor for the issue on ‘Conflict, Distribution, and Efficiency in Bargaining’. Details about the issue can be found here.
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.
