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Upstream and Downstream Impacts of College Merit-Based Financial Aid for Low-Income Students: Ser Pilo Paga in Colombia

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By Juliana Londoño-Vélez, Catherine Rodríguez and Fabio Sánchez How does financial aid affect postsecondary enrollment, college choice, and student composition? We present new evidence based on a large-scale program available to high-achieving, low-income students for attending high-quality colleges in Colombia. RD estimates show financial aid eligibility raised immediate enrollment by 56.5 to 86.5 percent, depending […]

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Multinationals, Monopsony and the United Fruit Company

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The effect of large-scale foreign investments in developing countries remains an important open question. Despite their pervasiveness in the emerging world, the extent to which host economies benefit from these investment projects is widely debated. On the one hand, the extractive activities and exploitation of foreign companies may explain why some places remain persistently poorer […]

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Jason Mozingo

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Jason Mozingo faced the same decision many prospective UCLA students face: enroll at Berkeley or go to school in Westwood. But for Jason, whose parents had gone to UCLA, the decision to become a Bruin wasn’t just an easy one, it was a rewarding one. At UCLA, his bread and butter was economics. Jason took difficult […]

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CA Unemployment Insurance Claims during the Pandemic

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The COVID-19 crisis has led to historically unprecedented increases in the level of initial Unemployment Insurance (UI) claims filed in California since the start of the crisis in mid-March. Till von Wachter and UCLA’s California Policy Lab have partnered with the Labor Market Information Division of the California Employment Development Department to analyze daily UI […]

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Concentration Requirements

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Students admitted into the Value Investing Concentration will be expected to participate in the following key components: Value Investing Concentration Core Courses: ECON 168: Value Investing (Fall) ECON 167: History of Financial Crises (Fall) ECON 169: Applied Value Investing (Winter) ECON 177: Special Projects in Investing (Spring) ECON 106S: Competitive Strategy (Spring) Value Investing Concentration […]

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PhD Student Selected to Attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

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The UCLA Department of Economics would like to congratulate doctoral student, Diana Van Patten, who has been selected to participate in the 7th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences, which will now take place in 2021. Ms. Van Patten was nominated to be part of this prestigious group by the UCLA Economics Department, then selected as the […]