The  Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab  (J-PAL) has announced that  Yale Economics Professors Orazio Attanasio and Costas Meghir , along with Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of Yale Child Study Center,  Megan Smith , are …

William Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics, has had a distinguished career as a teacher, researcher, and administrator on campus, and also has been an engaged citizen and leader in the wider world. In January, his peers in economics elected him to …

On June 8, 2023, Tobin Center Associate Faculty Director Zack Cooper testified before the US Senate Committee on Finance, serving as a key expert for the hearing “Consolidation and Corporate Ownership in Health Care: Trends and Impacts on Access, Quality, …

Amanda E. Kowalski, assistant professor of economics, has won a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. Kowalski, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, is a health economist who specializes in topics that are …

How do people’s marriage choices affect their labor market choices, and ultimately gender wage gaps and income inequality? Despite achieving gradual progress closing gender gaps in recent decades, women around the world still lag behind men in wages …

Kaivan Munshi, Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, will present at this year’s South Asian Studies Annual Indu Bhatt Lecture . His talk, titled “Missing Girls,” explores sex selection through female feticide, infanticide, …

A joint project examining the link between economic inequality and how parents raise their children has received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division Of Social and Economic Sciences.  Fabrizio Zilibotti , the Tuntex Professor of …

The Department of Economics is proud to announce the 2024-25 recipients of the Tobin Scholar Prize for their outstanding performance in the Department of Economics core courses. The four seniors are Nina Gaither , Logan George , Paris Suksmith , and Alex …

The Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics has announced that the  Econometric Society  will return to Yale after more than 42 years. The business and editorial offices will once again operate under the 30 Hillhouse Avenue roof.  Seen as one of the …

By Michael Cummings Yale economist Ebonya Washington draws her research ideas from the real world. A newspaper article, an observation while riding the bus, or an interaction at a store can raise questions worthy of analysis, she says. Not long after she …

Yale Economist Rohini Pande, and coauthors Patrick Agte, Arielle Bernhardt, Erica Field, and Natalia Rigol discuss the trade-offs in how microenterprise growth impacts child outcomes. Their study, ' Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts …

The Society for Economic Dynamics’ (SED) Annual Meetings bring together leading researchers for talks and lectures on the most important new ideas in macroeconomics and related fields. At this year’s meeting, Yale Economist Giuseppe Moscarini delivered …

Six Yale Economics undergraduate students took part in the 1st District College Fed Challenge competition last Friday, November 3. The regional competition held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, hosted more than 20 college and university teams from …