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Project on the Global Impact of the GPED funded by Chancellor’s office
Oct. 24, 2022—A project proposed by Kamal Saggi, Kevin Huang, and Brooke Talley (all of Economics), in addition to Edward Fischer (of Anthropology) has been funded by a Chancellor’s Sesquicentennial Grant. Only 15 grants were funded, with the purpose of engaging “with the university’s history, look[ing] ahead to its future and reflect[ing] what makes Vanderbilt a distinctive...
Martha Bailey, Ph.D. ’05, wins Caroline Shaw Bell Award
Oct. 22, 2022—Martha Bailey, Economics Ph.D. ’05, was recently announced as the 2022 winner of the prestigious Caroline Shaw Bell Award by the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP). This award recognizes “an individual who has furthered the status of women in the economics profession, through example, achievements, increasing...
Kitt Carpenter elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Oct. 18, 2022—Christopher (Kitt) Carpenter has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Recognized recently by Vanderbilt media, this is a singular honor. Kitt was elected by his peers “for his outstanding research on public policies intended to curb risky behaviors and his seminal work evaluating the clinical and economic effects of LGBTQ-related public policies, including...
2022-23 Ph.D. Job Market Candidates page now live
Oct. 18, 2022—Good luck to our 6 Ph.D. job market candidates this year! View them here.
Mattias Polborn quoted in New York Times
Sep. 14, 2022—Mattias Polborn’s paper was recently quoted in the New York Times in a piece on why Americans on both the left and the right ignore their own economic self-interest when choosing which political party to support. The paper quoted is “Morals as Luxury Goods and Political Polarization,” an NBER working paper co-authored with Benjamin Enke...
Michelle Marcus and Katie Yewell’s paper on free school meals published
Sep. 2, 2022—Michelle Marcus and Katherine Yewell (PhD ’20, and now assistant professor the University of Louisville) have published their paper “The Effect of Free School Meals on Household Food Purchases: Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision” in the Journal of Health Economics. They find that access to universal free school meals through the Community Eligibility Provision...
Andrew Dustan awarded NSF grant for project on educational public-private partnerships in Colombia
Aug. 2, 2022—Andrew Dustan of Economics, along with Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Education, and Economics (Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations) and Associate Professor of Economics (by courtesy), have been awarded an NSF grant to study the impacts of educational public-private partnerships in Colombia, as well as school choice behavior in this education system....
Current and former PhD students Flynn and Smith have paper published in Journal of Public Economics
Jul. 19, 2022—Pat Flynn (PhD ’22, now at Cornerstone Research) and Tucker Smith (PhD candidate in Economics) have had their co-authored paper published in the Journal of Public Economics’ August 2022 issue. The paper is entitled “River, Lakes and Revenue Streams: The Heterogeneous Effects of Clean Water Act Grants on Local Spending.”
Dustan and Leo’s paper published
Jul. 12, 2022—Andrew Dustan and Greg Leo, along with Kristine Koutout (Ph.D. ’21, now at Stanford) have published their paper “Second-Order Beliefs and Gender” in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
Kitt Carpenter and LGBTQ+ Policy Lab announce breakthrough study on the effects of same-sex marriage
Jun. 21, 2022—Leaders of Vanderbilt’s LGBTQ+ Policy Lab have provided the first comprehensive evidence on the effects of access to legal same-sex marriage. Their efforts revealed that marriage access impacted the LGBTQ+ community positively in multiple ways. Professor Kitt Carpenter of Economics is the director of the LGBTQ+ Policy Lab.