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 …

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 …

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 …

The Economic Consequences of Climate Change: An Interview with Nobel Laureate William Nordhaus … March 21, 2024 | News The Economic Consequences of Climate Change: An Interview with Nobel Laureate William Nordhaus William Nordhaus and Lint Barrage (PhD …

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.  …

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 …

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 …

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 …

By Richard Panek The question came about two-thirds of the way through a seminar at the London School of Economics in the 1980s. Larry Samuelson, then an early-career economist, was giving a talk on the topic of bargaining when a hand shot up. Why , the …

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 …