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Quantifying the Cost of Caregiving
/in EDI-Faculty Research Spotlight, Research Spotlight/by Simon BoardThe aging of the population brings with it a host of pressing economic issues. Chief among these is the rising cost of health care and the need to provide care for our elderly population. While health care costs are high across the age distribution, they are far larger among the elderly. And among those 65 […]
Greg Buonaccorsi
/in Alumni Interview/by Simon BoardThere’s a lot more that goes on at a Dodgers game than Clayton Kershaw striking out batters or employees serving hot dogs to spectators. Behind the scenes lies an intricate operation comprised of hard-working, innovative individuals collaborating to put on the experience millions of fans adore. Greg Buonaccorsi lives out this dream by merging his […]
Hugo Hopenhayn in the Marginal Revolution
/in News/by Simon BoardProfessor Hopenhayn’s paper “From Population Growth to firm Demographics” was featured in Marginal Revolution today. Alex Tabarrok described it as “The best paper I have read in a long time”. He goes on to write: “The authors do a great job at combining empirics and theory to explain an important fact about the world in […]
Changes in between-group Inequality: Computers, Occupations, and International Trade
/in EDI/by Stephanie FergusonBy Ariel Burstein, Eduardo Morales and Jonathan Vogel We provide a unifying framework to quantify the impact of several determinants of changes in US between-group inequality. We use an assignment framework with many labor groups, equipment types, and occupations in which changes in inequality are driven by changes in workforce composition, occupation demand, computerization, and […]
Kathryn Brewer
/in Alumni Interview/by Simon Board“Kathryn, you’re in!” declared the UCLA admission officer as she immediately recognized the voice on the other side of the phone. Why could an admission officer, who dealt with thousands of students each year, recognize a voice so quickly? It was because she had been receiving daily phone calls from a young Kathryn Brewer, anxious […]

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