Paul Clyde Profiled by The Center for Global Health Equity at the University of Michigan
The Center for Global Health Equity at the University of Michigan recently published a profile on Paul Clyde, a graduate of the UCLA’s Economics program (Ph.D ’90). Professor Clyde is currently the Tom Lantos Professor of Business Administration, President of the William Davidson Institute, and a member with the Center for Global Health Equity at […]
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 […]
The Evolution of Retirement
UCLA Economics Professor Dora Costa’s book, The Evolution of Retirement was recently featured in The Atlantic. In the article, The Future of Work Is a 60-Year Career, the author references Costa’s book in relation to the current discussion regarding increasing the age at which people should retire.
UCLA Econ Places in The Fed Challenge
This year UCLA participated in the Federal Reserve Challenge for the first time. The Fed Challenge is a nationwide competition among colleges and universities in which student-teams formulate a monetary policy recommendation and present it to judges from the Fed. The UCLA team finished first in its division and in the top 6 nationwide. The […]
Martha Bailey’s Research on Paid Leave cited in The Week
UCLA Economics Professor Martha Bailey’s paper on paid family leave was featured in The Week. Her paper “The Long-Term Effects of California’s 2004 Paid Family Leave Act on Women’s Careers: Evidence from U.S. Tax Data” studies the short- and long-term effects of paid family leave on women’s carriers. Read the article here
Former Economics Professor Guido Imbens Wins 2021 Nobel Prize
Former UCLA faculty member Guido Imbens won a 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in economic sciences Monday… Read More
Natalie Bau featured in The Print
UCLA’s Natalie Bau was recently featured in ThePrint.in. ThePrint.in is a news, analysis, opinion and knowledge venture, launched in August 2017 by editor Shekhar Gupta. It is sharply focused on politics and policy, government and governance. Its leadership team includes India’s most experienced and respected journalists with proven track records in the finest news organizations. […]
Biden’s $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill compared to the New Deal, Great Society and War on Poverty
UCLA Economics Professor Martha Bailey’s work on the War on Poverty was featured in the Washington Post in relation to the current Biden infrastructure bill. Her co-edited book, Legacies of the War on Poverty, and her recent paper on the long-run returns to public investments, forthcoming in the American Economic Review, demonstrate how some federal […]
Adriana Lleras-Muney Receives NIH R21 Grant Award
A big congratulations to Adriana Lleras-Muney, who recently received an R21 grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to study the health impacts of long-run exposure to pollution using evidence from military personnel. The R21 grant mechanism is intended to encourage exploratory and developmental research by providing support for the early and conceptual stages […]
