Entries by Stephanie Ferguson

Upstream and Downstream Impacts of College Merit-Based Financial Aid for Low-Income Students: Ser Pilo Paga in Colombia

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By Juliana Londoño-Vélez, Catherine Rodríguez and Fabio Sánchez How does financial aid affect postsecondary enrollment, college choice, and student composition? We present new evidence based on a large-scale program available to high-achieving, low-income students for attending high-quality colleges in Colombia. RD estimates show financial aid eligibility raised immediate enrollment by 56.5 to 86.5 percent, depending […]

PhD Student Selected to Attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

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The UCLA Department of Economics would like to congratulate doctoral student, Diana Van Patten, who has been selected to participate in the 7th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences, which will now take place in 2021. Ms. Van Patten was nominated to be part of this prestigious group by the UCLA Economics Department, then selected as the […]

Andy Atkeson discusses COVID-19 impact on US Economy on NPR

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UCLA’s Professor Andy Atkeson joined Executive Director of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, Christine Mitchell, on NPR’s On Point to discuss the impact COVID-19 will continue to have on our economy and what to expect moving forward. The full audio broadcast can be found by visiting WBUR’s website here. On Point is broadcast […]

David Baqaee awarded NSF Grant

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We’d like to congratulate Assistant Professor David Baqaee for being awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for his research titled “Macroeconomics as Explicitly Aggregated Microeconomics.” One of the biggest changes in economics in the 21st century is the increasing availability of comprehensive, high quality, micro-level data on households and firms. To utilize all this […]

Faculty Research Featured in UCLA Anderson Review

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The UCLA Anderson Review recently published the article, “Google Says to Hire the Best, but Suppose You Can’t?” written by Dee Gill. This article highlights the research currently being done by Simon Board, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, and Tomasz Sadzik on how top companies tend to “hog the best talent” and how this affects other firms. Below […]

Adriana Lleras-Muney wins the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award

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The UCLA Department of Economics would like to congratulate Adriana Lleras-Muney for being awarded the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for best undergraduate teaching in Fall 2019 for her class Econ 130–Public Finance. This course explores the role of governments in the economy. It analyzes why governments intervene in some markets and not others […]

Professor Giorcelli recognized by Kiel Institute

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Professor Michela Giorcelli has been named a winner of a 2020 Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. The other award winners are Luigi Bocola (Stanford), Teodora Boneva (Oxford), and Javier Cravino (Michigan and former UCLA Ph.D. student). The aim of the Excellence Award is “to build a […]

Professor Ohanian’s Research featured in The Economist

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Professor Ohanian’s research was recently discussed in an article published in The Economist. The article, “Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems” was published in the January 16th edition and an excerpt can be found below— Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems Since the […]