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Ph.D. candidate Brandyn Churchill has paper accepted for publication
Oct. 14, 2020—Ph.D. candidate Brandyn Churchill’s paper, “Insurance Coverage, Provider Contact, and Take-Up of the HPV Vaccine,” has been accepted at the American Journal of Health Economics.
Tong Li’s research with former Ph.D. student Zhang cited in Nobel statement
Oct. 13, 2020—Professor Tong Li’s work, co-authored with Bingyu Zhang (Ph.D. ’09 and now with Freddie Mac), was cited in the statement on the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics, awarded to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson. Li and Zhang’s article, published in 2010 by the International Economic Review, is entitled, “Testing for affiliation in first-price...
Kitt Carpenter named as program director at NBER
Oct. 7, 2020—Kitt Carpenter has been named the new Director of the Health Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. The announcement is here.
William Collins presents research on racial disparities in US history
Oct. 7, 2020—William Collins’ research was cited in The Economist and the Wall Street Journal, and he recently participated in a panel discussion on racial disparities in US economic history hosted by the University of Warwick.
LGBT Policy Lab re-funded for 5 year period
Oct. 7, 2020—Professor Kitt Carpenter’s project, the Vanderbilt LGBT Policy Lab, has received a Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award under the TIPs program for an additional five years of funding. The LGBT Policy Lab connects interdisciplinary faculty and students who are interested in studying issues impacting the LGBT community.
Ph.D. candidate Trang Hoang wins award for her paper
Oct. 6, 2020—Trang Hoang’s job market paper, “The Dynamics of Global Sourcing,” has won the best graduate paper award at the FREIT/EIIT (Forum for Reseach in Empirical International Trade) conference. Congratulations, Trang! Fun fact: Trang’s adviser, Joel Rodrigue, won the same award when he was on the job market!
Assistant Professor Sarah Quincy awarded prestigious prize
Sep. 28, 2020—Sarah Quincy, Assistant Professor of Economics, was awarded the 2020 Allan Nevins Prize in American Economic History on September 13 at the annual meeting of the Economic History Association. The Nevins Prize is awarded annually by the EHA on behalf of Columbia University Press for the best dissertation in U.S. or Canadian economic history completed...
Mariam Sanusi, BA’19: Combining Art and Economics
Jul. 7, 2020—Professional Fellow, Vanderbilt University Mariam Sanusi graduated with a double major in economics and art. She came to Vanderbilt as a transfer student from California, looking for smaller class sizes and a close-knit community. At Vanderbilt, Mariam got involved with the Women in Business student organization, served in the Undergraduate Senate, and worked as an...
Fiona Bultonsheen, BA’20: Empowering Individuals Through Fintech
Jul. 1, 2020—Associate Consultant, Capco Fiona Boultonsheen majored in Economics with a minor in Arabic. While at Vanderbilt, she was awarded a Critical Language Scholarship through the U.S. State Department to study Arabic in Amman, Jordan. Over the summer prior to her senior year, Fiona interned in financial services consulting at Capco with a focus in capital...