Growing up in Argentina as the first person in her family to attend university, Paula Calvo never imagined she would get a PhD in economics. “I didn’t know all of the possibilities that were available,” she says. “I didn’t know anyone with a PhD… I didn’t …

Above: Barbara Biasi (Yale SOM) presented ' What Works and For Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across The U.S. ' at the Labor & Public Economics Conference. Each summer the Cowles Foundation brings together leading …

Steven Berry, David Swensen Professor of Economics, has been appointed the inaugural Jeffrey Talpins Faculty Director of the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale. Berry is a renowned economist whose research analyzes industrial organization, empirical …

The Economic Consequences of Climate Change: An Interview with Nobel Laureate William Nordhaus … The Economic Consequences of Climate Change: An Interview with Nobel Laureate William Nordhaus Luke Strathmann News March 21, 2024 Policies, projections, and …

For the second year in a row, Yale placed at the 1st District College Fed Challenge competition in Boston. This year, however, the Yale team took first place. The team is made up of the following members: Sienna Gough ‘19, David Rubio ‘19, Rohit Goyal …

Rohini Pande has been awarded the 2022 Infosys Prize for Social Science, among the largest awards in India recognizing excellence in science and research. The prize was announced in a  press conference  in Bangalore, streamed live on November 15, 2022.  …

Giving women in India’s Madhya Pradesh state greater digital control over their wages encouraged them to enter the labor force and liberalized their beliefs about working women, concluded a new study co-authored by Yale economists Rohini Pande and Charity …

Despite achieving gradual progress closing gender gaps in recent decades, women around the world still lag behind men in wages earned. Meanwhile, income inequality has increased — rapidly, in some countries. To better understand what drives these forces, …

As the Herb Scarf Summer Research Opportunities in Economics concluded another successful year, it remains a popular and coveted program for undergraduate students. With upwards of 30 research assistants (RAs) working closely with the Department of …

Mira Frick, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale, has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship . The two-year, $75,000 fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to early-career scholars across several scientific and …

This week marks the beginning of one of the biggest tech monopoly trials of the 21 st century: the U.S. Justice Department is arguing that Google abused its power as a monopoly to dominate the search engine business. Just last week , the European …

When Yale economist Joseph Shapiro was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about a decade ago, he attempted a cost-benefit analysis of the 1972 Clean Water Act — the federal law governing water quality in the country’s rivers, …