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 […]
UCLA Professor Lee Ohanian was interviewed by the News-Gazette for an article discussing the greatest post-war Presidents of the U.S. The article can be found here.
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 […]
A paper by UCLA Professors Andrew Atkeson and Lee Ohanian was featured in a Bloomberg column discussing the complexity of inflation forecasting. The Bloomberg column can be found here. The article published by Professor Atkeson and Professor Ohanian can be found here.
Climate change will continue to amplify water scarcity and variability. Rising temperatures directly alter the hydrological cycle, intensifying drought and deluges. Climate models predict substantial declines in water resources for irrigation and more uncertainty over future river inflows (1). These unprecedented environmental changes renew longstanding questions about the efficiency of water allocation. Water regulators typically […]
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 […]
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.
