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UCLA Received Honorable Mention in the Fed Challenge

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For the second year in row, UCLA received honorable mention at the Fed Challenge. This result puts UCLA in the top 6 schools out of 84 participants. The Fed Challenge is a nationwide competition among colleges and universities in which student-teams formulate a monetary policy recommendation and present it to judges from the Fed. The team […]

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UCLA Professor Bailey’s paper on COVID-19 and fertility receives broad media coverage

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UCLA Professor Martha Bailey’s paper: “The COVID-19 Baby Bump: The Unexpected Increase in U.S. Fertility Rates in Response to the Pandemic,” joint with Janet Currie and Hannes Schwandt, receives broad media coverage in the most important outlets. It is featured in the Economist, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR’s Marketplace, CNN, Fortune, […]

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UCLA Professor Martha Bailey receives the 2022 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award

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UCLA Professor Martha Bailey is the recipient of the 2022 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. The Carolyn Shaw Bell Award is given annually to an individual who has furthered the status of women in the economics profession, through example, achievements, increasing our understanding of how women can advance in the economics profession, or mentoring others. The full announcement can be […]

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NIH awards grant to Professor Lleras-Muney

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The National Institute for Health has awarded UCLA Professor Lleras-Muney a grant for the project titled “The Health and Education Impacts of Long-Run Exposure to Pollution in Childhood: Evidence from the US Army.” The project will assess the causal effects of long-term pollution exposure on children’s health and educational attainment. It will focus on the […]

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The Long-Term Consequences of Slum Clearance on Children

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By Fernanda Rojas Ampuero More than 25% of the world’s urban population today live in slums (UN-Habitat, 2020). A common policy response to high poverty and the large share of slum dwellers in developing countries has been to provide low-income housing in city peripheries and suburban areas. However, it is unclear whether these policies benefit […]