2016 Jeffrey W. Baus ’59 Scholarship Recipient Biography: Freddy Jimenez is a third year business economics major with a minor in accounting. He finds motivation through his parents who have sacrificed everything they could so that he could receive a quality education. Seeing education as the key to breaking the poverty cycle, Freddy holds himself […]
2016 John J. Peterson Scholarship Recipient Biography: Isaac Hung is a third-year Business Economics Major and Accounting Minor from the San Francisco Bay Area. He has had an amazing time at UCLA, where he is learning something new every day. He is a member of Delta Sigma Pi, a professional business fraternity. He is also […]
2016 Professor Harry Simons Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship for the Study of Accounting Recipient Biography: As a global citizen, Haojia spent the first 18 years of his life living in Hunan, China. Influenced by Asian culture, he holds values such as humbleness, diligence and cordialness dear and near. Having received his higher education in Business Economics […]
2016 Boeing Company Scholarship in Economics Recipient Biography: Stephanie Dong is a sophomore pursuing a major in business economics and minors in accounting and statistics. She is also an Achievement Scholar and college honors student. She is currently involved in undergraduate research under Professor Craig Fox (UCLA Anderson School of Management), investigating decision making under […]
2016 Harold R. Mortenson Endowed Scholarship Fund Award Recipient Biography: Shawn Diaz is a sophomore at UCLA from Richmond, California. He is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics with a minor in Environmental Systems and Society. During his time at UCLA, Shawn has had the privilege of being involved with UCLA Rally Committee, […]
2015 Robert D. & Margaret A. Wark Memorial Scholarship Recipient Biography: Natasha Elizabeth Gunawan is a fourth-year Economics major and Accounting Minor student. Born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia, she moved to the United States in 2013 for her academic degree and career. She serves as the internal director of ABSA at UCLA and is […]
2016 Robert D. & Margaret A. Wark Memorial Scholarship Recipient Biography: Jessica is a fourth-year Economics major and Statistics minor. She currently works as a research assistant at the Anderson Behavioral Lab and assists with academic publishing at the Getty Research Institute. Since coming to UCLA, whether writing for Daily Bruin prime Magazine or designing and copy-editing […]
Adriana Lleras-Muney’s co-authored article on mothers’ pensions has been cited in two national news outlets this month, The New York Times and Vox. The New York Times article cites Lleras-Muney’s study in an article about supply side economics, while Vox draws upon her research in connection to child poverty in the U.S.. Professor Lleras-Muney’s paper […]
We would like to congratulate Jay Lu for winning the Scoville Award for best undergraduate teaching in Winter 2017 for his class Econ 148 on Behavioral Economics. Behavioral economics is a subfield of economics that incorporates insights from psychology and other social sciences. The broad goal is to improve the realism of economic models by […]
The tenth annual West Coast Experiments Conference was co-organized by Professor Rodrigo Pinto. The Conference was held at UCLA on April 24-25, 2017, preceded by in-depth methods training workshops on Sunday, April 23. The West Coast Experiments Conference is an annual conference that brings together leading scholars and graduate students in economics, political science, and other […]
