The National Institute for Health has awarded UCLA Professor Lleras-Muney a grant for the project titled “The Health and Education Impacts of Long-Run Exposure to Pollution in Childhood: Evidence from the US Army.” The project will assess the causal effects of long-term pollution exposure on children’s health and educational attainment. It will focus on the […]
UCLA Professor Lee Ohanian discusses homelessness and housing problems in his podcast for California Sun. The podcast can be found here.
By Fernanda Rojas Ampuero More than 25% of the world’s urban population today live in slums (UN-Habitat, 2020). A common policy response to high poverty and the large share of slum dwellers in developing countries has been to provide low-income housing in city peripheries and suburban areas. However, it is unclear whether these policies benefit […]
Former UCLA economics PhD student Jingyi Huang has been awarded the Allan Nevins Prize for the best dissertation in U.S. economic history from the Economic History Association. This prize is a notable recognition of Huang’s work and puts her on the path of major contribution to the field for years to come. After completion of […]
Rosa Matzkin, Charles E. Davidson Professor of Economics, has been elected 2023 Econometric Society president. The official announcement can be found here. More about the Econometric Society can be found here.
PhD student Giovanni Righi has been awarded a doctoral grant for 2022-2023 from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. More information about the grant can be found here.
UCLA professors Andres Santos and Oleg Itskhoki were named Econometric Society Fellows. More information about the Econometric Society can be found here. The full list of fellows can be found here.
UCLA Professor Oleg Itskhoki makes a cameo appearance in the Business Insider article “Fewer Chinese Students May Hurt the US Economy.” The article can be found here.
Michael Rubens won the 2022 Young Economists´ Essay Award Winner presented by the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE). The Young Economists´ Essay Award is awarded annually to 3 authors under the age of 35, who are less than 5 years from their PhD defense, during EARIE’s annual conference. More information about the […]
On August 2, 2022, Bloomberg interviewed UCLA Professor and recent Clark Medal winner Oleg Itskhoki. The full interview can be read here.
