A familiar name keeps popping up in media reports about the Japanese economy: Koichi Hamada. The name is familiar in New Haven, because Hamada taught at Yale from 1986 to 2013 and is now Tuntex Emeritus Professor of Economics; he keeps an office at the …

Pandemic-related school closures are deepening educational inequality in the United States by severely impairing the academic progress of children from low-income neighborhoods while having no significantly detrimental effects on students from the …

Each year, 30-50 students write a senior essay in economics. This year, these essays spanned a wide array of topics across all fields of economics including consumption inequality within households, linkages between venture capital and public markets, …

The Department of Economics would like to give a heartfelt congratulations to the class of 2023! At this week’s commencement ceremony, the Department awarded 17 new PhDs. Below we highlight the achievements and next steps of this diverse group of …

… Fresh out of graduate school, economist  Samuel Kortum ’92 Ph.D.  began collaborating with Jonathan Eaton ’73 M.A., … Fresh out of graduate school, economist  Samuel Kortum ’92 Ph.D.  began collaborating with Jonathan Eaton ’73 M.A., … Fresh out of graduate school, economist  Samuel Kortum ’92 Ph.D.  began collaborating with Jonathan Eaton ’73 M.A., …

The Department of Economics is excited to welcome two new professors to its faculty this fall, and two new Postdoctoral Associates who will later join as faculty. Spanning a diverse set of backgrounds and interests, these new members will bring fresh …