The Economics Department is proud to announce Sefan Dercon as the Spring 2024 David Kinley Lecturer. Dr. Dercon will present "Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose". The lecture will take place on Wednesday, April 3rd from 4:00-5:00 pm in 120 Architecture Building, with a reception to follow.
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In the last few days, Professor Borgschulte's paper "Air Pollution and the Labor Market: Evidence from Wildfire Smoke" has been covered by CNBC, CBS, NYTimes, and the Associated Press. This paper was co-authored with David Molitor (Gies College of Business, UIUC) and Eric Zou (Department of Economics,University of Oregon).
The Economics Department is proud to announce Matthew Gentzkow as the Spring 2023 David Kinley Lecturer. Dr. Gentzkow will present "Social Media and Polarization". The lecture will take place on Thursday, April 20th from 3:00-4:45 pm in 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall. Matthew Gentzkow is the Landau Professor of Technology and the Economy at Stanford University. Professor Gentzkow...
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Sakshi Bhardwaj
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Benjamin Marx (Chair)
Mark Borgschulte
Andrew Garin
Hyoyoung Han
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Fields of Concentration: Health, Education, Environmental Economics
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Nolan Miller (Chair)
Rebecca Thornton
Elizabeth Powers
Allen Hardiman
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Fields of Concentration: Health Economics, Labor Economics
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Mark Borgschulte (Chair)
Andrew Garin
Julian Reif
Youngwook Jung
Job Market Paper: Substitutability Between Prime-Age and Marginal-Retirement-Age Workers
Fields of Concentration: Labor Economics, Regional Economics
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Greg Howard (Chair)
Stephen Parente
Geoffrey Hewings
Malabika Koley
Job Market Paper: Specification Testing under General Nesting Spatial Model
Fields of Concentration: Econometrics, Spatial Econometrics, Secondary Fields: Regional Science, Urban Economics, Statistics
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Anil K. Bera (Chair)
Eun Yi Chung
Bo Li
Yannis Bilias
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Fields of Concentration: Applied Microeconomics, Political Economy, Labor Economics
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George Deltas (Chair)
Isaac DiIanni
Konstantinos Kourtikakis
Hesong Yang
Job Market Paper: Employment Cyclicality, Gender Segregation, and Hiring over the Business Cycle in Japan
Fields of Concentration: Labor Economics, Public Economics
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Eliza Forsythe (Chair)
Elizabeth Powers
Marieke Kleemans
Colleen Schultz
Mahounan Yedomiffi
Fields of Concentration: Development, Education, Labor, Conflicts
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Richard Akresh (Chair)
Leonard Wantchekon
Adam Osman
Jian Zou
Job Market Paper: Financial Deregulation, School Finance, and Student Achievement
Fields of Concentration: Economics of Education , Labor Economics
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Mark Daniel Bernhardt (Chair)
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- This fall, we had 76 students begin their study in the MSPE Program. This class is represented by 11 different countries: Brazil, China, Indonesia, Korea, Liberia, Nigeria, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Turkey, and the USA. These students joined the 61 continuing students in the MSPE Program.
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- The workshop "HDMetrics: Big Data, High-Dimensional Methods, and Machine Learning" will be held on the 21st-22nd of April 2023, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. The workshop is being organized by ...
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