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.
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.
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.
