Tobin Undergraduate Research Assistantships

The Tobin undergraduate RAs are named after James Tobin, a prominent member of the Department of Economics at Yale from 1950 to 2002 and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1981. He was an avid supporter of involving undergraduates in research in economics and was the leader of “Tobin’s ‘army’ — generations of undergraduates [who] became part of an intellectual adventure … and were instilled with the desire to devote knowledge and reason to the betterment of society” (quoted in “Remembering James Tobin: Stories Mostly from His Students,” by Robert Goldfarb, Eastern Economic Journal, 2003).