A Washington Post article discusses the paper “The COVID-19 Baby Bump: The Unexpected Increase in U.S. Fertility Rates in Response to the Pandemic,” by UCLA Professor Martha Bailey and coauthors Janet Currie and Hannes Schwandt. The Washington Post article can be found here. The paper, which studies the relationship between the pandemic and fertility rates […]
The 2022 Frontiers of Knowledge Award was awarded to Guido Tabellini, a former PhD student and faculty member of the UCLA economics department, for transforming political economy into a modern, empirical, interdisciplinary science. The award was shared with Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson. The three awardees, together with the late Alberto Alesina, have employed both theoretical and […]
The 2023 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society will be hosted by the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, on June 22-June 25, 2023. More information on the Meeting can be found here. The Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation […]
A Journal of Economic Perspective article written by UCLA Professor Andrew Atkeson and IMF Managing Director Gita Gopinath discusses the fundamental contributions to international macroeconomics and international trade of UCLA Professor Oleg Itskhoki, the 2022 John Bates Clark Medal winner. The article can be found here.
The Robert E. Lucas Jr. Prize was awarded to UCLA Professor Oleg Itskhoki and his coauthor Dmitry Mukhin for the paper “Exchange Rate Disconnect in General Equilibrium”, which was published in the Journal of Political Economy. The Robert E. Lucas Jr. Prize is awarded biannually for the most interesting paper in the area of Dynamic Economics […]
A paper by UCLA Professor Will Rafey was highlighted in Science. It studies how water markets boost farms’ outputs. The Science issue can be found here. The paper published by Professor Rafey can be found here.
The January 2023 issue of NBER Digest features UCLA Professor Yotam Shem-Tov’s paper on health and social outcomes of veterans with combat deployment. The NBER Digest January issue an be found here.
The Society for Economic Dynamics published on their website UCLA Professor Oleg Itskhoki’s research agenda on exchange rates. The article can be found here.
By Alex Bloedel Having good information is key to making good decisions, such as purchasing a high-quality product or selecting a profitable investment. Economists, therefore, have long viewed information as a scarce and valuable resource. However, in the modern world—since the advent of online commerce, social media, and real-time newsfeeds—information is arguably so abundant that […]
UCLA Professor Lee Ohanian was interviewed by CNN on the question: What if California seceded from the United States? The interview can be found here.
