Entries by Simon Board

New Book by Leah Boustan

Professor Leah Boustan published a book entitled “Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets”. This builds on her 10 years of research into the great migration carried out at UCLA. You can buy the book from Amazon. A Quick Overview: From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left […]

UCLA Economists awarded NSF Grants

John Asker won an NSF Grant entitled “Market Power and Resource Allocation” to examine how the global oil cartel OPEC impacts productive efficiency. Denis Chetverikov and Zhipeng Liao also won an NSF grant entitled “Cross-Validation for High-Dimensional and Nonparametric Models in Econometrics” to study how to select a smoothing parameter for Lasso estimators that are commonly used to estimate […]