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Biography: Maria is a first-generation queer Latina student from Fresno, California. Maria will be the first in her extended and immediate family to have a bachelor’s degree next year. She has two younger siblings and as the eldest daughter going to a top university was her biggest dream. Getting to UCLA was a life-changing experience […]
The California Center for Population Research selected UCLA Graduate Student Huihuang Zhu as the 2024 recipient of the Treiman Fellowship. Huihuang’s project, “Evaluating the Equity and Efficiency Tradeoffs of Academic Tracking: Lessons from Advanced Placement,” uses event-study and differences-in-differences methodology and finds that the AP program had large effects on the likelihood that high-performing students matriculate in […]
UCLA Professor Martin Hackmann has won the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for Winter 2024 for his course Econ131: Economics of Health and Healthcare. The course focuses on the economic analysis of the U.S. medical care sector, a major industry with $4.5 trillion in spending, accounting for 17% of GDP. It delves into the […]
The Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization has invited UCLA Professor Bernardo Silveira to be a guest editor for the issue on ‘Conflict, Distribution, and Efficiency in Bargaining’. Details about the issue can be found here.
Former UCLA Graduate Student Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero, now a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, won the Population Association of America’s highly competitive 2024 Dorothy Thomas Award for best graduate student paper. Her paper, entitled “Sent Away: The Long-Term Effects of Slum Clearance on Children and Families,” documents how Chile’s mandated slum-clearance programs […]
Nate Barlow, a graduate student in the UCLA economics department has won the Economic History Early Stage Dissertation Grant for his project on reparations paid to Japanese internees. The grant is awarded to the most promising dissertations in economic history.
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