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Immersion Vanderbilt: Thomas Hum’s semester in SE Asia will provide personal as well as academic immersion
Mar. 25, 2021—Thomas Hum’s Immersion project, planned for Spring 2022, will plunge him not only academically into studying the developing economies of China and Singapore, but also physically into the homes of families in the towns he will visit. As a participant in the School for International Training, he will travel to and study the growing financial centers...
Senior Lecturer Heather Luea wins prestigious teaching award
Mar. 23, 2021—Heather Luea, Senior Lecturer in Economics, is the 2021 winner for the Social Sciences of the University’s Harriet S. Gilliam Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer. The Gilliam Award was established in 1995 in memory of Harriet S. Gilliam, B.A., 1966. The award recognizes a lecturer or senior lecturer who...
Harold Chiang, PhD ’20: Cutting-edge econometrics at Wisconsin-Madison
Mar. 23, 2021—Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison As an econometrician, Harold works on bridging the division between cutting-edge econometric theory and the frontiers of empirical economic research. The tools developed in Harold’s research can be applied to different empirical economic questions in education, labor economics, international trade, and industrial organization, among others.
View our Spring 2021 McGee lecture on the economics of the COVID-19 pandemic
Mar. 20, 2021—View Spring 2021 McGee lecture, “The Macroeconomic Policy Response to the Pandemic: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” by Christina Romer of UC-Berkeley here.
John Weymark gives keynote lecture
Mar. 15, 2021—John Weymark delivered his paper, “Vaihinger’s Fictionalism Meets Binmore’s Knowledge-as-Commitment,” as a keynote lecture to the online Joint Meeting of Asian Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ANPOSS), the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS), and the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable (POSS-RT) hosted by Hitotsubashi University on March...
Economics Department hires three new assistant professors
Feb. 12, 2021—Welcome to our new faculty, who will be starting in Fall 2021! Christopher Li comes to us from an assistant professorship in Political Science at Florida State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern in 2016, then held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale and Princeton before going to FSU. Interested in microeconomics and political...
Christina Romer to deliver Spring McGee webinar on the economics of the COVID-19 pandemic
Feb. 11, 2021—Christina D. Romer of UC-Berkeley will give the Spring 2021 McGee Public Policy Webinar on the topic, “The Macroeconomic Policy Response to the Pandemic: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” on Tuesday, March 9 at 4:00 PM. Registration is required and can be accessed here. Click here for more information about the webinar.
Michelle Marcus’ published paper featured by AEA
Jan. 25, 2021—Michelle Marcus’ paper, “Going Beneath the Surface: Petroleum Pollution, Regulation, and Health,” published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, is the topic of an AEAWeb piece. Professor Marcus’ paper examines the health impacts from leaking underground storage tanks seeping chemicals into the soil and groundwater, and finds that regulatory action and information given to residents...
Myrna Wooders spending sabbatical leave at NYU-Abu Dhabi
Jan. 11, 2021—Myrna Wooders, currently on sabbatical, is spending the spring semester as a Visiting Research Professor at New York University, Abu Dhabi. Her Ph.D. student, Zeeshan Samad, has accepted a position at the World Bank following his January graduation.
Michelle Marcus has paper published on petroleum regulation and health
Jan. 6, 2021—Michelle Marcus’ paper, “Going Beneath the Surface: Petroleum Pollution, Regulation, and Health,” was published as the lead article in the January issue of American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. This paper quantifies the health impacts of petroleum leaks from underground storage tanks, the effectiveness of tank regulation, and the role of information as a policy tool.