2021 Job Market Candidates
Meet the 2021 job market candidates! A complete list of the candidates and their paper abstracts can be found on the graduate placement page.
Welcome Back, Students!
As we start a new academic year and return to in-person teaching, the department welcomes back our undergraduate and graduate students. We invite incoming undergraduate students to look at the vast array of courses offered in the course catalog, and encourage Ph.D. students to attend the workshops offered in your field of study throughout the year. Also see the welcome message from President Peter Salovey.
2021-22 Arvid Anderson Fellows
The Cowles Foundation has announced the 2021-22 recipients of the Arvid Anderson Prize Fellowship in Economics. The five graduate students are: Haoge Chang, Zara Contractor, Lucas Finamor, Tan Gan, and Ryungha Oh
Senior Thesis Spotlight
Yale Women in Economics congratulates all seniors in the Economics Department for their four years of hard work. Join us as we spotlight the research of four of our seniors —Alya Ahmed, Anna Hope Emerson, Lauren Harris, and Melissa Lu— as they present their senior theses on May 7 at 1pm. Each presentation will be followed by a short question and answer session.
Student Spotlight
Paula Calvo found community and a pathway to coauthorship in the PhD program.
Economics Women at Yale 50 - 150
Yale Department of Economimcs commemorates the 50th anniversary of coeducation in Yale College and the 150th anniversary of women students at the university. We highlight three pioneering women in the field: Phyllis Ann Wallace ‘44 M.A., ‘48 Ph.D.; Janet Yellen ‘71 Ph.D.; Heidi Hartman ‘72 M.Phil, ‘74 Ph.D.
Welcome
Upcoming Events
Mon, December 6 | |
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11:40am |
Behavioral Sciences Workshop Julia Minson, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School "You can’t handle the truth! Errors in affective perspective-taking during attitude conflict" SOM, Evans Hall, 165 Whitney Ave., #2210 Allison Foundation Classroom Event Page |
12:00pm |
Econometrics Prospectus Lunch Haoge Chang, Yale University "Unifying Theory of Designed-Based Inference: on Estimation and Variance Estimation" (joint with Joel A. Middleton, UC Berkeley) 451 College Street, Room B-03 |
12:00pm |
Development Lunch Jonathan Hawkins-Pierot, Yale University "The Price of Financial Inclusion: Equilibrium Effects of Rural Bank Branch Expansion Policy in India" SOM, Evans Hall, 165 Whitney Ave., #2400 Class of 1980 Classroom |
12:30pm |
Development Lunch Nathan Barker, Yale University " Gender, Land Inheritance, and the Allocation of Labor in Ghana" SOM, Evans Hall, 165 Whitney Ave., #2400 Class of 1980 Classroom |
2:30pm |
Development Workshop Jack Willis, Columbia University "Land Rental Markets: Experimental Evidence from Kenya" with Michelle Acampora and Lorenzo Casaburi (Working paper, slides forthcoming) SOM, Evans Hall, 165 Whitney Ave., #2210 Allison Foundation Classroom |
4:00pm |
Economic History Workshop Cihan Artunç, Middlebury College "Legal Origins of Corporate Governance: Choice of Law in Egypt, 1887–1913" (Password-protected. Contact noel.sardalla@yale.edu for access) Virtual Event |
Tue, December 7 | |
11:35am |
Finance Lunch Canyao Liu; Paul Schmidt-Engelbertz "TBD (Liu)"; "Inside the Mind of a Bubble: WallStreetBets and the Rise of the Meme Stock (Schmidt-Engelbertz)" |
12:00pm |
International and Spatial Economics Lunch Nghiem Huynh "Place-based Policies and Firm Entry: Evidence From Vietnam" Hybrid Event - In-person and virtual In Person Location: 451 College Street, Room B3 Sign-in to view Zoom link |
12:00pm |
Labor/Public Economics Prospectus Workshop Qianyao Ye and Maria Kogelnik "Estimating the Human Capital Production Function" and "Performance Feedback and Gender Differences in Persistence" Hybrid Event - In-person and virtual In Person Location: Watson Center, 60 Sachem Street, Room B-52 Sign-in to view Zoom link |
12:00pm |
Micro Theory Lunch Johannes Hörner, Yale University "Less informative report cards may be better" (joint with L. Samuelson) 451 College Street, Room B-04 |
2:30pm |
Macroeconomics Workshop Guillermo Ordonez, UPenn "Interbank Networks in the Shadows of the Federal Reserve Act" joint with Haelim Anderson (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) and Selman Erol (Carnegie-Mellon University Tepper School of Business) Sign-in to view Zoom link |
2:30pm |
Refugees, Migration and Forced Displacement Seminar Catherine Briddick, University of Oxford - Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development "When Does Migration Law Discriminate Against Women?" Hybrid Event - In-person and virtual Luce Hall, Room 203 Zoom link |
2:30pm |
Industrial Organization Seminar "No IO Seminar on 12-7-2021" Hybrid Event - In-person and virtual In person location: SOM - #4230 Attwood Classroom Sign-in to view Zoom link |
Wed, December 8 | |
2:30pm |
International Trade Workshop John Finlay - Job Market Candidate "Exporters, Credit Constraints, and Misallocation" Hybrid Event - In Person and Via Zoom Hybrid Event - In-person and virtual Sign-in to view Zoom link |
2:30pm |
Microeconomic Theory Workshop Hamid Sabourian, University of Cambridge and Cowles visitor "Efficiency in Repeated Games with Cheap Talk Negotiation" 451 College Street, Room B-04 |
4:00pm |
Econometrics Seminar Shuyang Sheng, UCLA "Identification and Estimation of Social Interactions in Endogenous Peer Groups" (joint with Xiaoting Sun) Virtual Event Sign-in to view Zoom link Signup Request |
Thu, December 9 | |
12:00pm |
Macro Lunch Zara Contractor "Software Adoption and Skill Demand" |
12:00pm |
Industrial Organization Prospectus Workshop TBA "Reserved for 3rd/2nd-years" 451 College Street, Room B-03 |
3:45pm |
Labor/Public Economics Workshop Alessandra Voena, Stanford University "How Disability Benefits in Early Life Affect Long-Term Outcomes" With Manasi Deshpande, University of Chicago and Jason Weitze, Stanford University Hybrid Event - In-person and virtual Sign-in to view Zoom link Signup Request Professor Voena will present in person in 451 College Street, Room B-04. |
Fri, December 10 | |
11:10am |
Finance Seminar Series (SOM) Paymon Khorrami, Imperial College Business School "Title Forthcoming" Virtual Event, SOM, Evans Hall, 165 Whitney Ave., #4200 Classroom Sign-in to view Zoom link |