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Individual vs. Joint Taxation

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How do different income taxation systems — for instance individual vs. joint — affect people’s decisions and welfare? Answering this question is important because governments can choose among several systems that differ most prominently for the treatment of individuals in married households. They can adopt an individual tax system, following the example of Canada and […]

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Aaron Behle

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“Never pass up on a free meal” might sound like cheeky advice for a college student struggling to get by but for Aaron Behle it means something entirely different. In fall of his Junior year in the UCLA Economics program, the family member of a friend who worked at Ernst and Young invited Aaron to […]

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Adriana Lleras-Muney wins the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award

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The UCLA Department of Economics would like to congratulate Adriana Lleras-Muney for being awarded the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for best undergraduate teaching in Fall 2019 for her class Econ 130–Public Finance. This course explores the role of governments in the economy. It analyzes why governments intervene in some markets and not others […]

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Professor Giorcelli recognized by Kiel Institute

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Professor Michela Giorcelli has been named a winner of a 2020 Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. The other award winners are Luigi Bocola (Stanford), Teodora Boneva (Oxford), and Javier Cravino (Michigan and former UCLA Ph.D. student). The aim of the Excellence Award is “to build a […]

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Professor Ohanian’s Research featured in The Economist

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Professor Ohanian’s research was recently discussed in an article published in The Economist. The article, “Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems” was published in the January 16th edition and an excerpt can be found below— Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems Since the […]

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Predicting and Preventing Homelessness Report

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UCLA Department of Economics Professor Till von Wachter worked alongside the California Policy Lab and the University of Chicago Poverty Lab to publish a report on Predicting and Preventing Homelessness.  They used Los Angeles County data on multi-system service use to predict homelessness among single adults receiving mainstream County services.  By identifying people at high […]