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Crime and violence in Latin American and Caribbean countries costs over $260 billion each year. Latin America spends 3.6 percent of its gross domestic product on crime-related costs. The largest share of these costs are related to the homicide rates which can be largely attributed to organized youth crime. Professor Eleonora Patacchini worked with...
Francine D. Blau, Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, was honored with the award of Distinguished Fellow from the American Economic Association. “Blau is a labor economist who has made seminal contributions to the study of labor market inequality. Her research on the...
Todd Lensman is a junior from North Canton, Ohio and has served as an undergraduate research assistant (URA) for Assistant Professor Maxim Troshkin since spring 2016. As a double major in mathematics and economics, Todd was exposed to the academic disciplines at a young age through his parents’ financial management business. He became naturally...
A recent working paper authored by Professors Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn, Cornell Economics Ph.D. alumni Professors Peter Brummund (Alabama) and Jason Cook (Pittsburgh), and current graduate student Miriam Larson-Koester indicates that American parents' preference to have a son may have shifted to a preference of having a daughter.The New...
Professor Hansen delivered honorary remarks about the life of Professor S.C. Tsiang and presented his paper "The Price of Macroeconomic Uncertainty with Tenuous Beliefs" at the inaugural S.C. Tsiang Macroeconomics Workshop on March 1, 2018. Sho-Chieh Tsiang, a world-renowned authority in macroeconomics, monetary theory, and international finance...
Graduates of its undergraduate and Ph.D. programs in the Department of Economics have had an impact not only on economics but also on a wide range of industries around the world. We are always interested in hearing from our alumni and look forward to sharing your successes. To submit a class note and read more about interacting with current...
Online publication for Ilya Molchanov and Francesca Molinari’s book Random Sets in Econometrics is planned for April of this year. Random set theory is a branch of mathematics that merges methods from topology, convex geometry, and probability theory. Random set theory has become an important tool in econometrics and finance. Charles Manski, the...
Dear Members of the Economics Community,You are invited to join Professor Lars Peter Hansen, Grace Tsiang, Mrs. HsiTsin Tsiang, and other family members for a variety of events on Thursday, March 1. Professor Hansen will serve as the inaugural speaker for the S.C. Macroeconomics Workshop. To learn more about S.C. Tsiang and his contributions in...
With the ringing in of 2018 Dr. Stephanie Thomas, Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Cornell University, weighed in on employment projections for the new year.In the article 2018’s Best Places to Find a Job by Richie Bernardo Stephanie Thomas states that the health care and social assistant sectors will see the largest increase in...
Graduates of the undergraduate and Ph.D. programs in the Department of Economics have had an impact not only on economics but also on a wide range of industries around the world. We are always interested in hearing from our alumni and look forward to sharing your successes. To submit a class note and read more about interacting with current...
Department faculty, field faculty, and graduate students attended the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA). The AEA, in conjunction with 58 associations in related disciplines known as the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA), hold a three-day meeting to present papers on general economics topics.Additionally, our...
Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Yongmiao Hong, has announced winners of the L.R. “Red” Wilson MA ‘67 Excellence in Economics Medal and four teaching awards to students in the Economics Ph.D. program. Recipients come from a variety of cohorts and areas of economic research.L.R. “Red” Wilson MA ‘67 Excellence in Economics MedalRed Wilson...
During the month of November Professor Mukul Majumdar, H.T. Warshow and R.I. Warshow Professor of Economics Emeritus, gave two talks in India and traveled to Cambodia and Thailand.The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) invited Professor Majumdar to speak during the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the birth of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis...
Francis Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of Economics, Francine Blau was interviewed by Cornell’s Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of American Studies, Nick Salvatore, for the The Legacy of Cornell Faculty and Staff series on eCommons, Cornell’s Digital...
The New York Times and Business Insider both featured Assistant Professor Mallika Thomas's working paper about the unintended repercussions of family-friendly policies on women’s careers. The two articles detail how policies aimed at welcoming more women into the workforce and promoting family-work balance could be contributing to a decline in...
Department of Economics Emeritus Professor Jaroslav Vanek passed away on November 15, 2017. He joined the department in 1964 and retired in 1996. Prof. Vanek's early work focused on international economics. He was a contributor to the Heckscher–Ohlin model and Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek Model of Trade theorem which was designed to predict the...
Graduate Student Angela Cools' and Professor Eleonora Patacchini's recent working paper examines the impact of sibling gender composition on women’s adult earnings. .The Independent recently highlighted their work in a piece detailing gender pay disparities in the UK and an upcoming push for companies to publish gender pay gap figures on their...