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. Explore a selection of recent publications and books here.
Although Viraj Govani ’23 can’t visit the mice in his lab in person this semester, he’s still able to continue moving forward in his research into diabetes and obesity by analyzing data that’s being recorded by grad students.
John Abowd, among others to be elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
"The economic fall-out [of COVID-19] is not entirely the direct outcome of the pandemic but a result of how we have responded to it-- what measures governments took and how ordinary people, workers, and firms reacted to the crisis."
Community Development by Public Wealth Accumulation
Barseghyan, Levon and Stephen Coate. "Community Development by Public Wealth Accumulation," Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming.
A stochastic dominance approach to program evaluation with an application to child nutritional status in Kenya
Naschold, Felix and Christopher B. Barrett. "A stochastic dominance approach to program evaluation with an application to child nutritional status in Kenya." Agricultural Economics 51, no. 6 (November 2020): 871-886.
The Union Threat
Taschereau-Dumouchel, Mathieu. “The Union Threat.” The Review of Economic Studies 87, no. 6 (November 2020): 2859-2892.
Read these papers and explore a listing of other recent publications here.
Recent Economics graduate, Seongheon Yoon '19, says "before college, I always thought of myself as a 'humanities' or 'social sciences' person and couldn't imagine taking quantitative classes. However, through classes like statistics, econometrics, and data science that I (not so willingly) took to fufill the requirements, I learned the power and beauty of quantitatively analyzing data to support qualitative arguments."
Read the full College of Arts & Sciences profile of Seongheon, or click the links below to explore more profiles of recent Economics alumni:
