Professor Adriana Lleras-Muney receives R01 Grant from the National Institute of Health for her research project “The Effect of Childhood Environments on Adult Health and Mortality”. “In the project, Professor Lleras-Muney constructs a new dataset linking individual childhood environments at a granular level to individual life spans for large representative samples of Blacks and Whites. […]
The paper “Why Do Workers Dislike Inflation? Wage Erosion and Conflict Costs” by UCLA Professor Joao Guerreiro and co-authors Jonathon Hazell, Chen Lian, and Christina Patterson was featured in Bloomberg. The paper provides a potential explanation for why workers dislike inflation. It argues that, with inflation, workers must take costly actions to ensure their nominal […]
UCLA professor John Asker was named Econometric Society Fellow. The Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. More information about the Econometric Society can be found here.
The paper “The Value of De Minimis Imports” by UCLA Professor Pablo Fajgelbaum and coauthor Amit Khandelwal (Yale) was featured in the New York Times. The paper studies the effect of subjecting imports of $800 or less, which currently enter the US duty-free, to tariffs. The paper main finding is that the cost would fall […]
By Lee Ohanian Many of the most important venture capital firms in the United States are located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. These firms have helped grow many new and emerging technology companies that would go on to contribute to the transformation of the global economy, including Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
2019 Professor Harry Simons Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship for the Study of Accounting Recipient Biography: Fanru Zhao was born and raised in a southern town in China, With a dream to explore the world, she applied to universities in the U.S and started college at UCLA in 2016. Fanru has a deep interest in accounting as […]
