We’d like to congratulate Assistant Professor Saki Bigio for being awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for his research titled “A Model of Credit, Money, Interest and Prices” (Joint with Professor Yuliy Sannikov from Stanford Business School). His research formalizes the idea that central banks have more tools than is traditionally thought. Namely, […]
On June 15, 2019, the UCLA Department of Economics held its Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony at Pauley Pavilion. Keynote Speaker Lloyd Greif (Class of ’77), President & CEO of Greif & Co., a leading investment bank, congratulated nearly 800 graduates on their singular achievement and wished them success in their future endeavors. During his speech, […]
Congratulations to Assistant Professors Martin Hackmann and Michela Giorcelli who were both named Hellman Fellows for the 2019-2020 Academic year! The UCLA Hellman Fellows Program supports “research and creative activities that promote career advancement and enhance the individual’s progress towards tenure.” Read below to learn more about their research proposals. “The Effects of the […]
By Ariel Burstein, Eduardo Morales and Jonathan Vogel We provide a unifying framework to quantify the impact of several determinants of changes in US between-group inequality. We use an assignment framework with many labor groups, equipment types, and occupations in which changes in inequality are driven by changes in workforce composition, occupation demand, computerization, and […]
By Till von Wachter, Jae Song, David J Price, Fatih Guvenen and Nicholas Bloom We use a massive, matched employer-employee database for the United States to analyze the contribution of firms to the rise in earnings inequality from 1978 to 2013. We find that one-third of the rise in the variance of (log) earnings occurred […]
By Adriana lleras-Muney In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of public limited liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase the representation of women in top positions in the corporate sector and decrease the gender disparity in earnings within that sector. […]
By Bernardo S. Silveira This paper empirically investigates how sentences to be assigned at trial impact plea bargaining. The analysis is based on the model of bargaining with asymmetric information by Bebchuk, 1984. I provide conditions for the nonparametric identification of the model, propose a consistent nonparametric estimator, and implement it using data on criminal […]
By Kathleen McGarry and Sean Fahle The labor force participation rates of women have risen dramatically over the past several decades. Much has been made of the increase in the numbers of women with young children who are now participating in the labor market despite the demands on their time at home. At older ages, […]
By Martha Bailey and Andrew Goodman-Bacon This paper uses the rollout of the first Community Health Centers (CHCs) to study the longer-term health effects of increasing access to primary care. Within ten years, CHCs are associated with a reduction in age-adjusted mortality rates of 2 percent among those 50 and older. The implied 7 to […]
