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

Meet the alum behind some of music's biggest rights deals

9/27/2023

Steve Salm ’93 is a founding partner at the firm that owns the catalogs of Genesis, KISS, Imagine Dragons, and much more.

Meet some of the (many!) Cornellians who’ve won the Nobel

9/26/2023

From Hans Bethe to Toni Morrison, we offer a sampling of alums and profs who’ve earned one of the world’s highest accolades.

The College welcomes new faculty for 2023-24

9/06/2023

Our 34 new faculty will enrich the College of Arts & Sciences with creative ideas in a vast array of topics.

New Faculty: Julieta Caunedo

9/05/2023

Julieta Caunedo, Economics

Serve in Place grants offer international experiences

7/18/2023

"This hands-on experience and research is great preparation for future projects."

Using data for policy decisions: NSF funds economics study

7/17/2023

Three economics researchers aim to include undergraduate researchers in their 2023-2026 project, “Mostly Harmless Statistical Decision Theory.”

A&S dean Jayawardhana named provost at Johns Hopkins

7/12/2023

Rachel Bean, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor in the Department of Astronomy and senior associate dean for math and science, has been named interim A&S dean.

2023 Job Market Placements

5/25/2023

A listing of job market placements for 2023 PhD graduates

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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