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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.”
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.
Economics faculty hires for 2022-23 academic year
Apr. 19, 2022—Adam Blandin joins us this fall as an assistant professor. After earning his Ph.D. in Economics from Arizona State University in 2016, he worked as an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and was a regular visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Professor Blandin studies macroeconomics, labor economics, and public economics and is...
Kitt Carpenter named Distinguished University Professor
Apr. 14, 2022—Kitt Carpenter has been appointed as Distinguished University Professor by Vanderbilt University. This designation represents the highest level of recognition that the University can bestow upon a faculty member and is an enormously important achievement for the individual and for the departments involved. Professor Carpenter’s Distinguished University Professor appointment is in the College of Arts...
Economics Ph.D. program jumps 5 places in U.S. News Rankings
Mar. 29, 2022—The Vanderbilt Ph.D. program in Economics took a large leap this year in the U.S. News and World Report rankings–from 35th to 30th. This is a significant increase, which can be attributed to our fine placement record over the past few years.