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    Inaugural Merton J. Peck Prize
    … Thirteen Economics faculty have been selected to receive the Merton J. Peck … for excellence in undergraduate teaching. As the award’s inaugural year, the prize covers both sustained excellence in … Peck was a devoted teacher and mentor of Yale undergraduate and graduate students. In a letter to the …
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    The Department of Economics Announces the 2023 Graduate Faculty Awards
    … and in the Department of Economics. Professor Seim joined Yale in 2019, and has advised many students on topics related … the frontier of research.” The Department of Economics Announces the 2023 Graduate Faculty Awards … January 9, 2024 | News The Department of Economics Announces the 2023 Graduate …
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    Tobin 2023: Economics in Service to Society
    … and colleagues, Since our 2019 launch, the Tobin Center at Yale has supported economic research that advances … pay incentives in K-12 systems , and more. Tobin Faculty Affiliates John Eric Humphries and Winnie van Dijk … Topline Stats This year our work was covered in over 150  news stories (including New York Times, Washington Post, Wall …
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    Steven Berry Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
    … to the National Academy of Sciences … May 3, 2025 | News Steven Berry Elected to the National Academy of Sciences The Yale Department of Economics is proud to share that Professor … Berry, the David Swensen Professor of Economics and inaugural faculty director of the Tobin Center for Economic …
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    Samuel Kortum Appointed as Director of Yale’s Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics
    … experience to the Foundation, and his connection to Yale goes back decades. He completed his PhD in economics at … about? My goal at the moment is to get to know our faculty and programs, yet I’d like to begin exploring how … for Research in Economics … September 19, 2023 | News Samuel Kortum Appointed as Director of Yale’s Cowles …
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    Sam Kortum at the Trade and Development conference, hosted by EGC on February 28, 2020
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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 Conference Highlights Cutting … time, students presented their essays at the inaugural Yale Economics Senior Essay Conference, attended by over 150 …
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    How Can Improved Data and Evidence Improve Lives in Connecticut?
    … Chief Data Officer, and Rachel Leventhal-Weiner, the Director of Evaluation and Impact at the Office of Policy and … runs deep: it represents a central strategy of Yale to support Connecticut data and research needs and to … Improve Lives in Connecticut? … October 13, 2023 | News How Can Improved Data and Evidence Improve Lives in …
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    Nat McLaughlin, Tobin Senior Program Manager, with Scott Gaul and Rachel Leventhal-Weiner
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    Alan Gerber
    … of economics and of statistics and data science at Yale University. He also has affiliations in the Yale School … School of Global Affairs. Previously he was appointed the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) divisional director for the social sciences and became the inaugural FAS Dean of Social Science, serving in this role …
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    Attanasio, Meghir, Smith Awarded J-PAL Grant
    … Jameel Poverty Action Lab  (J-PAL) has announced that  Yale Economics Professors Orazio Attanasio and Costas Meghir … , along with Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of Yale Child Study Center,  Megan Smith , are … to take place in New Haven and is co-funded by the  Tobin Center for Economic Policy . The full abstract of the …
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    First Tobin Scholars
    … excelled in these courses. The prizewinners will be called Tobin Scholars — to honor James Tobin, a prominent member of the Department of Economics at Yale from 1950 to 2002 and the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1981. The inaugural Tobin Scholars are: Ian Hoffman, Economics and …
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    2018 Tobin Scholar Prize Recipients
    … Four economics majors were awarded the 2018  Tobin Scholar Prize  for their outstanding performance in … pays homage to J. Tobin, one of the greatest economists of Yale, I feel especially encouraged and inspired to continue … Freidheim is also one of the lead donors of new Tobin Center for Economic Policy  announced earlier this summer. …
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