Professor Yotam Shem-Tov Awarded 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship
We are proud to congratulate Professor Yotam Shem-Tov, one of the 2025 winners of the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship. The Sloan Fellowships are extremely competitive awards with just a handful of recipients selected each year from among the best scientists throughout the United States and Canada. Fellowships are awarded in the areas of Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth and Space Science, Economics, Mathematics, Neuroscience and Physics. Candidates must be nominated by other scholars and the winners are selected by a committee of experts in the respective fields.
Professor Shem-Tov is a labor economist who studies the criminal justice system, examining such issues as the effect of sentencing practices on recidivism and the impact of incarceration on employment outcomes. Some of his most recent work, focusing on the effectiveness of restorative justice has shown that such programs can reduce recidivism rates by 23 percent. His work has been published in leading economics journals such as Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economics and Statistics.
Yotam received his PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019 and came to UCLA in 2020 as an assistant professor. He teaches Undergraduate Labor Economics and a graduate course in the same field.
Yotam joins recent past Sloan winners in the Department including David Baque (2022), Natalie Bau (2022), Denis Chetverikov (2019), and Pablo Fajgelbaum (2017).
Related Links:
Sloan Foundation | 2025 Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship Recipients
Sloan Foundation | 2025 Sloan Research Fellows Press Announcement
UCLA Newsroom | UCLA tops public universities in number of 2025 Sloan Research Fellows
UCLA Social Sciences News | UCLA economics professor Yotam Shem-Tov receives 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship
