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 […]
Former UCLA faculty member Guido Imbens won a 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in economic sciences Monday… Read More
Board of Visitors Mr. Sam Sheth FOUNDER AND SENIOR MANAGING DIRECTOR OF VERITYPOINT Sam is a founder and Senior Managing Director of VerityPoint. Since 1994, Sam has worked with several of the nation’s largest corporations and institutions to develop and implement executive and employee benefit plans that are most effective and efficient. He […]
UCLA’s Martha J. Bailey, along with Brenden D. Timpe & Shuqiao Sun, had their paper Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency featured in the May 2021 issue of Anderson Review. UCLA Anderson Review is a window into the cutting-edge research of expert faculty who are drawn to […]
Board of Visitors Mila Skulkina BA ‘01 Portfolio Manager, Lord, Abbett & Co. Mila Skulkina, CFA is a Portfolio Manager at Lord Abbett, focusing on Emerging Market Fixed Income strategies. Ms. Skulkina leads the firm’s ESG Sovereign analysis and integration for Emerging Markets. She is a frequent speaker on these and other topics at various conferences. Prior to joining Lord […]
