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Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance

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By Michela Giorcelli and Bo Li The importance of international technology diffusion in fostering economic development can be hardly overstated. Consequently, technology transfer interventions have been widely used to promote industrialization in developing countries, especially through the diffusion of state-of-the-art capital goods. However, in their early stages of industrialization, less developed countries also lack industry-specific […]

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Natalie Bau and David Baqaee named as 2022 Sloan Fellows

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Natalie Bau and David Baqaee have been named as Sloan Fellows for 2022, two of eight economists nationwide. Natalie Bau is an assistant professor in the Economics Department. She graduated from Harvard, Public Policy, in 2015 and joined the Economics Department in 2020. Her research spans a variety of topics in development and educational economics, including […]

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LIFE-M Data Access

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The LIFE-M data, which has been more than seven years in the making, have been released. The data can be downloaded from OPEN ICPSR here.   The LIFE-M project combines millions of U.S. vital records (birth, marriage, death certificates) with census information into a longitudinal and intergenerational micro-database. With the help of cutting-edge, machine learning techniques, the LIFE-M […]

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Lee Ohanian Interviewed by the News-Gazette

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UCLA Professor Lee Ohanian was interviewed by the News-Gazette for an article discussing the greatest post-war Presidents of the U.S. The article can be found here.

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MQE Distinguished Speaker: John List

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The Masters of Quantitative Economics Distinguished Speaker Series featured John List of the University of Chicago being interviewed by Simon Board. Professor List is the Kenneth Griffin Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and one of the leaders in running field experiments. He talked about his experience as Chief Economist at Uber, setting up […]

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Paper by Andrew Atkeson and Lee Ohanian Featured in Bloomberg Column

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A paper by UCLA Professors Andrew Atkeson and Lee Ohanian was featured in a Bloomberg column discussing the complexity of inflation forecasting. The Bloomberg column can be found here. The article published by Professor Atkeson and Professor Ohanian can be found here.

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Droughts, Deluges, and (River) Diversions: Valuing Market-Based Water Reallocation

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Climate change will continue to amplify water scarcity and variability. Rising temperatures directly alter the hydrological cycle, intensifying drought and deluges. Climate models predict substantial declines in water resources for irrigation and more uncertainty over future river inflows (1). These unprecedented environmental changes renew longstanding questions about the efficiency of water allocation. Water regulators typically […]

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Paul Clyde Profiled by The Center for Global Health Equity at the University of Michigan

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The Center for Global Health Equity at the University of Michigan recently published a profile on Paul Clyde, a graduate of the UCLA’s Economics program (Ph.D ’90). Professor Clyde is currently the Tom Lantos Professor of Business Administration, President of the William Davidson Institute, and a member with the Center for Global Health Equity at […]