UCLA Professor Will Rafey contributes to the writing of the Fifth National Climate Assessment released by the White House. The report highlights the widespread negative effects of climate change with the most damaging effects for low-income communities. The full report can be found here. Professor Rafey’s contribution was also discussed in the following UCLA Newsroom […]
By Jacob Kohlhepp Full article available here. Anyone who has shopped at a Costco and a corner convenience store knows that firms selling the same products assign tasks to workers differently and have dramatically different levels of profitability. Economists have long recognized via case studies and theoretical work that some of these differences are due […]
The paper ‘Index Funds, Asset Prices, and the Welfare of Investors’ by UCLA Professor Bill Zame and coauthor Martin Schmalz was featured in the Bloomberg podcast. The podcast featuring the article can be found here.
The paper ‘Index Funds, Asset Prices, and the Welfare of Investors’ by UCLA Professor Bill Zame and coauthor Martin Schmalz was featured in the Anderson Review. The article featuring the paper can be found here.
UCLA professor Pierre-Olivier Weill was named Econometric Society Fellow. More information about the Econometric Society can be found here.
UCLA Professor Till Von Wachter has received an award from The California Collaborative for Pandemic Recovery and Readiness Research for their research on how workers fared under different unemployment insurance programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.The research will help to address evidence gaps in how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the health and wellbeing of communities throughout […]
The October 2023 issue of NBER Digest features UCLA Professor Martha Bailey’s paper on the 1960s legal changes that reduced the gender pay gap. The NBER Digest October issue can be found here.
The Russell Sage Foundation awarded UCLA Professor Felipe Concalves a grant to study economic inequality. A description of the project titled “The Geography of Race, Poverty, Crime, and Policing”, and details of the award can be found here.
By Daniel Haanwinckel A recent article by The Brookings Institution argues that income inequality is “a major issue of our time” and cautions that “an increasingly unequal society can weaken trust in public institutions and undermine democratic governance.” That concern is widely shared. According to a recent survey by the PEW Research Center, six in […]
UCLA Emeritus Distinguished Professor John Riley has been awarded a honorary Doctorate of Commerce from the University of Canterbury, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Commerce in Economics in 1969. Professor Riley is one of the world leaders in the area of auctions and mechanism design. The announcement […]
