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Rosa Matzkin has been elected Second Vice-President of the Econometric Society. She will presumably become First Vice-President in 2022 and President in 2023. The Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. Officers and New Fellows are elected each year by the current Fellows. […]
One of our newest faculty members, Martha Bailey, is hitting the ground running at UCLA with the funding of two new research proposals. The first is for the project, “Measuring Intergenerational Mobility in the US over the 20th Century,” funded by the Center for Equitable Growth and the Russell Sage Foundation. The project aims to […]
The UCLA Department of Economics is excited to announce that we are welcoming 7 new faculty members to our department for the 2020-2021 academic year. We are excited to have them join our ranks and welcome them all to Los Angeles! For more information about each of the new faculty members, click below: Martha Bailey […]
I am a Professor in the Department of Economics and Director of the California Center for Population Research at the University of California-Los Angeles. I am also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and affiliated with CEPR, CESifo, IZA, and HCEO. My research focuses on issues in labor economics, demography and health in the United States, within […]
Professor Lee E. Ohanian and Jesus Fernandez-Villarverde were recently featured in The Hill on September 6, 2020 for their opinion piece regarding the success of Amazon and it’s place in our current economy. Excerpt: Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of about 11 percent of Amazon stock, recently became the first person in history to […]
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 10% of workers today are unemployed. This rate however is at least twice as high among those ages 15-25. This pattern is not unique to today. In fact, youth unemployment rates have always been much higher than unemployment rates for the rest of the population, at least […]
UCLA is ranked as the top American school for economic mobility, and there is no better example than that of Lloyd Greif. Once a full-time student and employee, he worked his way to become one of UCLA’s most prestigious alumni and one of California’s most accomplished investment bankers. Before coming to Westwood, Greif grew up […]
Finis Welch 1938-2020 Finis Welch passed away unexpectedly on August 24, 2020. A resident of Bryan and Centerville, Texas, Finis was a world-renowned economist, highly successful entrepreneur and accomplished rancher. The son of Edgar Joe Welch and Addie Houston Welch, Finis Welch was born July 11, 1938 in Pasadena, Texas, and graduated from Pasadena High […]
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