Congratulations Class of 2015!

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With honored guests, Duff and Morris Goldman, and the Economics Department offer their congratulations to over 800 Business Economics, Economics, and Math/Economics students who completed their degrees this year! 657 of our graduates and approximately 4500 guests watched Duff Goldman (Ace of Cakes) and his father Morris Goldman (UCLA, Ph.D. in Economics, 1972) deliver the commencement address at our Spring 2015 Commencement at Pauley Pavilion on Saturday, June 13th. They delivered the message of taking risks, following your dreams, and kindness. We hope our graduates will take their message and do great things as proud UCLA alums! Please continue to think of us as you continue on with life after UCLA.

Congratulations to John Asker for Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award

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John Asker's article, “Raising Retailers' Profits: On Vertical Practices and the Exclusion of Rivals,” (American Economic Review, 104(2), 672-686, 2014) has been awarded thirteenth annual Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award for Antitrust Scholarship, for the best economics article in 2014. The award places particular emphasis on scholarship that reflects a concern for principles of economic justice, the dispersal of economic power, and the federal statutes designed to protect society from various forms of anticompetitive activity.

Congratulations to Harold Demsetz for Lifetime Achievement Award

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Harold Demsetz is the winner of the inaugural Elinor Ostrom Lifetime Achievement Award. This great honor is presented by the International Society of New Institutional Economics (ISNIE) once every two years and is given to an individual who has distinguished themselves by making sustained and significant contributions to institutional and organizational economics.

The Award presentation took place during the Annual Meeting of ISNIE at Harvard University, at a banquet on Saturday, June 20, 2015.

Congratulations Harold!

The War on Poverty’s Experiment in Public Medicine: The Impact of Community Health Centers on the Mortality of Older Americans

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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 13 percent decrease in one-year mortality risk among beneficiaries amounts to 20 to 40 percent of the 1966 poor/non-poor mortality gap for this age group. Large effects for those 65 and older suggest that increased access to primary care has longer-term benefits, even for populations with near universal health insurance.

Read full paper here