Martha Bailey Featured in UCLA Anderson Review

A paper by UCLA Professor Martha Bailey was featured in the UCLA Anderson Review. It studies the effect of increases in the minimum wage on employment and earnings of workers. The UCLA Anderson Review article can be found here. The paper published by Professor Martha Bailey can be found here.

Natalie Bau and David Baqaee named as 2022 Sloan Fellows

Natalie Bau and David Baqaee have been named as Sloan Fellows for 2022, two of eight economists nationwide. Natalie Bau is an assistant professor in the Economics Department. She graduated from Harvard, Public Policy, in 2015 and joined the Economics Department in 2020. Her research spans a variety of topics in development and educational economics, including […]

LIFE-M Data Access

The LIFE-M data, which has been more than seven years in the making, have been released. The data can be downloaded from OPEN ICPSR here.   The LIFE-M project combines millions of U.S. vital records (birth, marriage, death certificates) with census information into a longitudinal and intergenerational micro-database. With the help of cutting-edge, machine learning techniques, the LIFE-M […]

MQE Distinguished Speaker: John List

The Masters of Quantitative Economics Distinguished Speaker Series featured John List of the University of Chicago being interviewed by Simon Board. Professor List is the Kenneth Griffin Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and one of the leaders in running field experiments. He talked about his experience as Chief Economist at Uber, setting up […]

David Baqaee Invited to Contribute an Article by the Society for Economic Dynamics

UCLA’s Economics Professor David Baqaee was recently invited by the Society for Economic Dynamics to write an article about his research agenda. The article, Macroeconomics as Explicitly Aggregated Microeconomics, describes Professor Baqaee’s focus on the role of production networks in the transmission of economic shocks. More about SED can be found here.

Newly Elected Economic Theory Fellows 2022: Simon Board and Andrew Atkeson

The Department of Economics congratulates Andrew Atkeson and Simon Board on being named Economic Theory Fellows by the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET). SAET’s purpose is to advance knowledge in theoretical economics and to facilitate communication among researchers in economics, mathematics, game theory, or any other field which is potentially useful to economic […]