By Maurizio Mazzocco The abuse of entrusted power by politicians through rent-seeking and corruption is a serious concern in much of the developing world. There have been countless examples both across countries and over time of political elites diverting funds intended for basic public services such as in education, health, and infrastructure. Notable cases include […]
The University of Chicago Press publishes the book ‘Long-Term Care around the World’, which was edited by UCLA Professor Kathleen McGarry and MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber. The book, which analyzes both formal and informal long-term care in developed countries, can be found here.
Professor Martha Bailey’s latest research, featured by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), offers a comprehensive reevaluation of landmark War on Poverty programs over six decades later. Drawing on newly available large-scale data, Bailey and her collaborators investigate how initiatives like Head Start, Food Stamps, family planning, and community health centers have shaped economic […]
The Princeton University Press has published a book by UCLA Professor Pierre-Olivier Weill and coauthors Julien Hugonnier and Benjamin Lester on an important yet understudied type of financial markets: Over-the-Counter Markets. Over-the-counter markets are decentralized marketplaces where financial instruments, like stocks and bonds, are traded directly between buyers and sellers, without the supervision of a central […]
We are proud to congratulate Professor Yotam Shem-Tov, one of the 2025 winners of the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship. The Sloan Fellowships are extremely competitive awards with just a handful of recipients selected each year from among the best scientists throughout the United States and Canada. Fellowships are awarded in the areas of Chemistry, Computer […]
Jacob Kohlhepp, who received his Ph.D. from the UCLA economics department in 2023 and is now a Professor at the University of North Carolina, was awarded the Oliver Williamson Best Conference Paper Award for his paper “The Inner Beauty of Firms.” The award is given to the best paper presented at the Society for Institutional & […]
The paper “The Value of De Minimis Imports” by UCLA Professor Pablo Fajgelbaum and coauthor Amit Khandelwal (Yale) was featured in the Economist and Reuters. The paper studies the effect of subjecting imports of $800 or less, which currently enter the US duty-free, to tariffs. The paper main finding is that the cost would fall […]
Our faculty member, Professor Dora Costa, was featured in a recent New York Times article titled “Have Americans Really Been Healthy?“. The article explores the historical context of health in the United States, with Professor Costa providing insights into the challenges of American diets and lifestyle in the 19th and early 20th centuries. She highlights […]
UCLA Professor Alexander Bloedel has been appointed as associate editor at the Journal of the European Economic Association
The United States criminal justice policy has historically relied on sanctions to enforce compliance. Sanctions became increasingly punitive beginning in the late 1970s, leading to large increases in the correctional populations. Recent years have seen an effort to dial back the severity of punishments and use alternatives to criminal prosecution. Restorative justice conferencing (RJC) is […]
