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Tong Li publishes paper with former student Brantly Callaway
Jan. 24, 2023—A paper by Tong Li and Brantly Callaway (PhD ’16), entitled “Evaluating Policies Early in a Pandemic: Bounding Policy Effects with Nonrandomly Missing Data,” is forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics. In this paper, the authors develop new methods of dealing with nonrandomly missing data for policy evaluation and apply the methods to...
Rupi Saggi is the 2022 recipient of the Gilliam Award
Dec. 8, 2022—Rupi Saggi, Principal Senior Lecturer in Economics, is the 2022 recipient of the 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 has achieved excellence in...
Brooke Talley wins Staff Excellence Award for College of Arts and Science
Oct. 27, 2022—Our own Brooke Talley, Program Coordinator for the Economics Ph.D. and M.A. (GPED) programs, has been awarded the 2022 Staff Excellence Award for the College of Arts and Science. While there are also awards for the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences, the award for the entire College is even more prestigious, and includes a generous...
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....