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Economics Professors, Tong Li and Mattias Polborn to host 2024 North American Summer Meeting
Feb. 12, 2024—2024 North American Summer Meeting June 13 – 16, 2024 Nashville, United States We are pleased to announce that the 2024 North American Summer Meeting (NASM) hosted by Vanderbilt University will take place from June 13 to 16, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee, and is now accepting papers. The Econometric Society is now accepting papers. Students...
Spring 2024 Advising Pizza Party
Jan. 29, 2024—Spring 2024 Advising Pizza Party When: Thursday, March 21, 2024 Where: Sarratt Promenade Time: 11:30 – 1:30pm
Sophomore Sharmila Adapa awarded prestigious Future Nobel Laureate Scholarship
Nov. 27, 2023—Sharmila Adapa, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Science, will travel to Sweden in December as one of only 10 students globally to receive a 2023 Future Nobel Laureate Scholarship. Adapa, who is double majoring in medicine, health and society and economics and plans to attend medical school, says a summer experience interning...
Center for Research on Inequality and Health hosts inaugural seminar, ‘Understanding LGBTQ+ Youth in Times of Change’
Oct. 27, 2023—Nashville’s Vanderbilt University will create a new center that will study the causes and consequences of health-related inequalities. The Vanderbilt Center for Research on Inequality and Health will represent a collaboration of the university’s College of Arts and Science and the School of Nursing. The center will convene the university’s leading researchers with expertise in...
2023-24 Ph.D. Job Market Candidates page now live
Oct. 18, 2023—Good luck to our 6 Ph.D. job market candidates this year! View them here.
Kamal Saggi to lead new administrative team announced for Vandy Econ
Aug. 4, 2023—We are delighted to announce that Kamal Saggi, Frances and John Downing Family Chair and Professor of Economics and Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, will be the next department chair for Economics. Assisting him will be Mattias Polborn (E. Bronson Ingram Chair and Professor of Economics) as vice chair, Brian Beach (Associate Professor of Economics)...
Yuya Sasaki named to endowed professorship
Jun. 30, 2023—Yuya Sasaki has been named by Vanderbilt as Brian and Charlotte Grove Chair of Economics. Endowed chairs are an indication of high academic accomplishment and are an important way for donors to make a real difference in our faculty members’ scholarship–and hence, to the overall status of the department, the College, and the University. Congratulations,...
Zimran and Collins publish paper on immigration
Jun. 29, 2023—Ariell Zimran and Bill Collins recently had a paper published in American Economic Journal: Applied, entitled “Working Their Way Up? U.S. Immigrants’ Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration.”
Michelle Marcus interviewed on podcast
May. 2, 2023—The podcast “Trade Talks” recently interviewed Michelle Marcus about her paper, “Uncharted Waters: Effects of Maritime Emissions.” The paper is joint work with Jamie Hansen-Lewis.
Ph.D. candidate Tucker Smith’s paper published
Apr. 4, 2023—A paper co-authored by Ph.D. candidate Tucker Smith and alumnus Cameron Friday (Ph.D. ’22) was recently published. “Turning around Schools (and Neighborhoods?): School Improvement Grants and Gentrification” is forthcoming in the June 2023 issues of the journal Economics of Education Review. Congratulations!