… the Merton J. Peck Prize for distinction and excellence in undergraduate teaching … June 16, 2025 | News Announcing the Merton J. Peck Prize for distinction and excellence in undergraduate teaching The Department is proud to recognize … the Department's flagship Senior Essay, which provides opportunities for a student to engage in independent economic …

… By Mike Cummings While an undergraduate at Yale, economist Joseph Altonji took an introductory course in … Altonji ’75 B.A. took advantage of the academic opportunities Yale afforded him, which triggered a passion …

… The Herb Scarf Summer Research Opportunities in Economics is a program designed to give Yale undergraduate students a chance to work directly with faculty … email, with a copy to  Prof. Samuel Kortum  (Director of Undergraduate Studies in Economics) and the Economics …

… of Economics and the department’s former director of undergraduate studies. “There are two worlds at Yale — one of … time to pursue a particular project, but if there is an undergraduate there to keep it moving, then it can spring to … Bergemann would like to expand the research assistant opportunities during the academic year so that eventually up …

… frontiers of our economic knowledge. What challenges and opportunities do you see for the discipline of economics in … can be taken to hasten the recovery and return to full employment. One interesting facet is that economics advises … walking across the lawn. You have known Yale as an undergraduate, as provost, and as a professor for four …

… By Michael Cummings Yale economist Ebonya Washington draws her research ideas from the … her research interests. One explores why the gender gap in employment has plateaued in wealthy countries despite the … to pursue a graduate degree in public policy but her undergraduate adviser urged her to choose a discipline, such …

… 38 undergraduate students have been awarded Herbert Scarf Summer Research Opportunities to work directly with faculty from the … the RAs, providing feedback, guidance and support to the undergraduate students. The number of RAs selected this year …

… attended in their life. It was very cute to have a trade economist, theorist, and macroeconomist in the audience!!" …

… in the 1980s. Larry Samuelson, then an early-career economist, was giving a talk on the topic of bargaining when … the 1944 publication of mathematician John von Neumann and economist Oskar Morgenstern’s Theory of Games and Economic … in The American Economic Review by Leonid Hurwicz, an economist associated with the Cowles Commission for Research …

… For example, some applications I have studied include employment relationships between firms and workers, how to … forward, there are some new challenges as well as new opportunities. One relates to your previous question: How to … very powerful; for example, having women faculty speak to undergraduate students about their career paths can make a …