… the news? Isaiah Andrews: It was a huge surprise, and I was a bit stunned. They called me the Friday before it was … worked on.  In each of these cases, my coauthors and I have suggested alternative methods that researchers can use … encouraged my interest in the field. YDE : What advice do you have for undergraduate students interested in pursuing …

… years running; and what monetary and fiscal steps can be taken to hasten the recovery and return to full employment. … and budget cuts during a depression; indeed, such measures have clearly worsened the recession in the Eurozone. It is a … subjects of economics is the study of the environment, and I have been particularly interested in the economics of …

… Jaynes noted that some critics from the “so-called left” have taken Obama to task for not being forceful enough in the … Democratic primaries. An African American candidate could never get enough white votes to win the nomination, he thought. “I had fallen into my own trap,” he said. By Jim Shelton , New …

… to tackle questions related to expanding programs that have proven effective in small-scale randomized-controlled … reaping the rents of the status quo,” said Gerard Padró i Miquel, professor of political science and economics at … showed that results from a program evaluation conducted in any given year will be sensitive to aggregate shocks, such as …

… For the last three years, Lucas Zavala and Paula Calvo have acted as RA mentors in an effort to foster a sense of … what that option entails.” Calvo has a similar view. “I think this program is important because it provides the … others are better programmers than we are. Pitching the programming workshops at the proper level is an ongoing …

… policy of settling refugees in rural labor markets might have changed the long-term path of local industrialization in … What motivated you to take on this research question? I started working on growth theory during my PhD at MIT. The … in the late 1940s and 1950s. And they, luckily, had taken pictures of the old census publications, which I could …

… How should financial institutions be regulated? How do these decisions affect individuals? Professor Eduardo … motivated you to start working on normative questions? I started my PhD in economics in 2008, right in the heart of … are better or worse off when a policy takes place—you need a theoretical framework. It’s impossible to do welfare …

… Cummings Yale economist Fabrizio Zilibotti’s career has taken him across the globe. Born and raised in Italy, he has … success hinges on getting into a good university — parents have an incentive to be less permissive and more … a measure of how much parents love their children. When I grew up, my parents would let me spend a lot of time on my …

… of evictions?  For the first time, researchers have combined eviction court records with detailed … One of the things that we can observe even before we make any complicated causal inferences are negative trends in … are some additional areas for exploration? Personally, I think there are three big questions which this paper leaves …