UCLA Department of Economics Professor Till von Wachter worked alongside the California Policy Lab and the University of Chicago Poverty Lab to publish a report on Predicting and Preventing Homelessness. They used Los Angeles County data on multi-system service use to predict homelessness among single adults receiving mainstream County services. By identifying people at high […]
On January 6th, 2020; the Washington Post published an article regarding the health impacts of recession. In it, the author cited Professor Till von Wachter’s research and paper with Northwestern University’s Hannes Schwandt. Washington Post Article: Don’t Root For a Recession to Knock Out Trump by Catherine Rampell
By Olivia Osei-Twumasi and Bernardette J. Pinetta Using data from six urban school districts, we examine the relationship between the quality of interactions in the classroom (measured by the Classroom Assessment Scoring System [CLASS] framework) and the racial match or mismatch between teachers and the students in their classes. We find that White teachers have […]
Warren Buffett, taxing capital income is a bad idea By Lee Ohanian In 2011, superstar investor Warren Buffett made headlines not for his investment recommendations but for his opinion that tax rates on high earners should substantially increase. Buffett proposed the Buffett Rule, which would impose a minimum 30 percent effective tax on those with incomes exceeding […]
The Economics Department is delighted to announce the renaming of its undergraduate Value Investing Program after the field’s pre-eminent pioneer, Benjamin Graham. With the concurrence and encouragement of Mr. Graham’s son, Dr. Benjamin Graham, Jr., the program will now be known as the Benjamin Graham Value Investing Program. Benjamin Graham, widely known as the “father […]
Beginning with the Fall 2019 graduating class, our Economics and Business Economics Bachelors, Master of Applied Economics, and Economics PhD programs will be officially classified as STEM (CIP code 45.0603). The STEM designation signifies the analytical rigor of our classes, which trains students in statistics and programming but also teaches them to see the world […]
We’d like to congratulate Assistant Professor Jay Lu for being awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for his research on the economic theory of human decision-making. The first part of this project will address common everyday situations where individuals make choices repeatedly over time. In many of these cases, people’s preferences over various goods […]
Why the markest turned volatile–and why you shouldn’t panic By Lee Ohanian Financial market volatility has skyrocketed in recent days. The Standard and Poors 500 Index, which consists of the 500 largest, publicly traded corporations, lost 6 percent of its value in May. This was followed by an 8 percent rise in June, but the index was […]
On September 6 and 7, UCLA will host the 2019 CEME Conference for Young Econometricians with the support of the National Science Foundation. This workshop, which is part of the Conference on Econometrics and Mathematical Economics (CEME) series, has the express purpose of providing an informal venue for interaction between advanced junior and young senior […]
The UCLA Department of Economics would like to congratulate Tomasz Sadzik for being awarded the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for best undergraduate teaching in Spring 2019 for his class Econ 106G on Introduction to Game Theory. Game Theory provides a set of tools to study the interaction of multiple strategic agents. It can […]
