Workshops & Seminars

Our department hosts world-renowned speakers in our diverse set of weekly workshops. In addition, our faculty and students pursue research in many different areas of economic study.

Research Spotlight: Sibling Gender Composition and Women's Wages

Professor Eleonora Patacchini and Graduate Student Angela Cools find that women with any brothers earn roughly 10 percent less than women with no brothers in their late 20s and early 30s.

Read this abstract and explore a listing of other working papers here.

Economics News

2024 Cornell Economics Commencement Ceremony

4/17/2024

2024 Cornell Economics Commencement Ceremony information.

Summer Experience Grant applications now open

4/01/2024

The grants provide funding for students in unpaid or low-paying summer experiences to offset the cost of taking on those positions.

Nicholas Kiefer, economist and ‘towering intellect,’ dies at 73

3/21/2024

Nicholas Kiefer, an economist whose deep curiosity and sharp insights into statistics and economic theory enabled him to parse a range of financial and banking systems, died March 12.

Economics department receives $500K gift honoring Tapan Mitra

3/19/2024

The Dr. Tapan Mitra Economics Fund continues the passion of the late professor for top-level collaboration in economic theory and his legacy of generosity.

Support Arts & Sciences on Giving Day March 14

3/01/2024

Your gift allows the College to fulfill our mission — to prepare our students to do the greatest good in the world.

Rising stars: Harrison Award honors recent alumni leaders

1/31/2024

Four special guests, including Arts & Sciences alumni, will be honored at the Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference in Baltimore in February.

Klarman Fellow’s mission: Break cycles of poverty through fact-based policy

11/14/2023

Neil Cholli studies labor and public economics with a goal of helping to shape social policy in the U.S.

Author Jemisin builds ‘the world from scratch’

10/09/2023

At the Bartels World Affairs Lecture Oct. 4, Jemisin spoke on how to investigate our world and beliefs about it, and how to use what we learn to imagine and construct a better future.

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The S. C. Tsiang Macroeconomics Workshop

Sho-Chieh Tsiang, a world-renowned authority in macroeconomics, monetary theory and international ﬁnance, was a Professor of Economics at Cornell University from 1969 until his retirement and elevation to Emeritus status in 1985. His family has graciously endowed our department's weekly Macroeconomics Workshop.

Learn more about S.C. Tsiang and his contributions in the field of economics