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Congratulations to Martin Hackmann, the winner of the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for best undergraduate teaching in Spring 2021! Martin Hackmann won this award while teaching ECON 131: Economics of Health and Healthcare. This course provides an economic analysis of health and healthcare. It includes presentations of several detailed economic models, including models […]
On July 1st, Jinyong Hahn took over as Chair of the Department of Economics, taking over from Dora Costa. During her time as Chair, Dora introduced innovations to all aspects of the department. At the undergraduate level, the department obtained a STEM classification of the Economics major, reformed the undergraduate econometrics sequence, introduced new two-unit […]
Arbitration is a private bilateral conflict resolution procedure in which a third party, the arbitrator, makes a binding decision on the dispute. Compared to formal litigation through a court system, it is generally faster and cheaper. Arbitration has been extensively employed to resolve disputes including labor impasses, disagreements concerning commercial contracts, and tariff negotiations, among […]
The LIFE-M project, short for the Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Microdata Project, is pleased to announce the creation of a new research lab. In June 2021, the LIFE-M Lab appointed two undergraduate Research Fellows, Li Zhijian and Zach Wrubel, to conduct research on intergenerational mobility and health and the long-run effects of early childhood interventions […]
Congratulations to all the Undergraduate, Masters and PhD students who graduated this June from our Department. We are so proud of the hard work and dedication you showed during this unique time. While we were not able to have a traditional ceremony to celebrate all of your accomplishments, we are pleased to share with you […]
The UCLA Department of Economics wants to congratulate Professor Andy Atkeson for recently being appointed co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy. Editors at the JPE are typically from the University of Chicago, so the appointment of Professor Atkeson is particularly unusual, and an acknowledgement of his standing in the profession and his editorial judgement. […]
UCLA’s Martha J. Bailey, along with Brenden D. Timpe & Shuqiao Sun, had their paper Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency featured in the May 2021 issue of Anderson Review. UCLA Anderson Review is a window into the cutting-edge research of expert faculty who are drawn to […]
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