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2019 Senior Essay Nominees

… Of these, 10-15 are nominated for a prize by both the student’s advisor as well as a second reader from the … Nominee: Sienna Gough Advisor: William English Essay: Evidence and Explanations for the Reversal of the Conditional … Insurance, and Interaction: The Municipal Bond Market after the Monolines Nominee: Zona Zhang Advisor: …

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Eduardo Dávila’s Research Explores Welfare and the Macroeconomy

… should financial institutions be regulated? How do these decisions affect individuals? Professor Eduardo Dávila's body … focuses on “normative” questions, or what economists call welfare assessments: How are people better or worse off as a … interested in financial markets. I was also interested in welfare questions, and when I looked around at the big …

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Yale to Host Young Economists Symposium Conference

… Hall. Formerly titled EconCon, YES is an annual graduate student-run conference for Economics Ph.D. students sponsored … Economics PhD program are eligible to present. The two-day event will be Yale’s first time hosting the event in its … 30 finalists. As is procedure for the YES conferences, the selection process begins with a panel of referees from all …

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Inaugural Senior Essay Conference Highlights Cutting Edge Student Research

… Inaugural Senior Essay Conference Highlights Cutting Edge Student Research … May 21, 2025 | News Inaugural Senior Essay … 150 students, faculty advisors, family, and friends. The event featured a full day of student presentations across … Maya Aidlin-Perlman: Empowering Women in the Age of AI: Selection into Digital Technology Training Programs in Latin …

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Publications

… , Rohini Pande , Nicholas Ryan & Anant Sudarshan Abstract Market-based environmental regulations are seldom used in … quantify how pollution affects aggregate productivity and welfare in spatial equilibrium. We show that skilled workers … model combines choices and outcomes in order to study how selection affects LYFT. We show how to identify and estimate …

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Congratulations to the 2023 Senior Essay Prize Nominees and Winners!

… much more. The top essays are nominated for prizes by the student’s advisor and a second reader from the department. A … Moscarini (“ Skewed Uninsurable Income Risk in Incomplete Market Economies ”), supervised by Eduardo Davila, and Sarah … for residential properties and employs a hedonic pricing model to comprehensively document the distributional …

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Celebrating the 2025 Undergraduate Senior Prize Winners and Nominees

… Prize Senior Essay: Empowering Women in the Age of AI: Selection into Digital Technology Training Programs in Latin … incidence and police responses. Using georeferenced event data and a local elections database, we implement a … concerns about transparency and consumer welfare. Linkedin Profile “My favorite memory of Econ at Yale …

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Three Grads Selected to Attend Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences

… the Lindau meeting, which, I am sure, will be an amazing event.” Ball commented that he looks forward to attending … and information economics. Ball is the lone sixth-year student whose field of intest is economic theory. All three … Nobel Laureates and other great young scholars twice. The selection process begins with eligible students applying to …

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Yale economist Mira Frick awarded a 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship

… models.” This area, and my work, is motivated by growing evidence from psychology and behavioral economics that, in … to people’s learning biases, and how to compare the welfare costs of different learning biases. The results in … feedback on early-stage ideas to multiple rounds of job market practice talks, I see our students grow tremendously …

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2017 Senior Essay Prize Recipients

… senior essays : “The Targeting Performance and Short-Term Welfare Effects of Female Income Support Programs: Evidence … “Did Central Clearing of Interest Rate Products Impact Market Activity?” by Alicia Borja Alvarez (supervised by … terms. Senior essays are nominated for a prize by both a student’s advisor, as well as a second reader from the …

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Yale economist examines cost and value of higher ed

… it.” A summer internship in Washington, D.C., studying welfare reform persuaded him to pursue a Ph.D. in economics, … they priced out the cost of a four-year degree for each student and weighed the expense against students’ earnings … involving immigration, race, and gender in the labor market, wage determination, labor supply, and economic links …

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Finding a path to research on labor markets and inequality: PhD Student Zara Contractor

… and analyzing the data, they were surprised to find no evidence that E.O. 11246 has any significant impact on the … workers Contractor’s current research explores the labor market impacts of society’s increasing reliance on technology … extracurricularly,” she said. In particular, as a graduate student, she has appreciated the Economics Department’s …

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Labor/Public Economics Prospectus Workshop, 2004/05–2011/12

… of Bocconi, "Learning about the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs and Behavioral Responses: Evidence from … "The Effect of School Construction on Property Values and Student Outcomes" Oct. 19 Yvonne Jie Chen, "Education and … in the U.S." Vincent Pohl, "Marital Protection and Marital Selection — Evidence from Aggregate Data" Mar. 30 Steve …

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Economist Cooper awarded Carnegie Fellowship for work on drug pricing

… to support data-driven research on pharmaceutical pricing. Cooper, associate professor of public health at the … they only account for about 1% of the pharmaceutical drug market, biologics represent about 30% of drug spending, … could affect prices in the sector. The goal is to provide evidence needed to shape effective public policy for lowering …

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Senior Essays Nominated for Prizes

… finance. Senior essays are nominated for a prize by both a student’s advisor, as well as a second reader from the … are: Adrian Rodrigues Panacea or Pariah: The Labor Market Returns of Private For-profit Institutions and … Environmental News and Noise in Financial Markets: Event Studies Concerning the Effect of Environmental …

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