The Department is proud to announce that three recent Yale economics graduates have been honored through the U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP): Jack Kelly (‘22), Sarah Moon (‘23), and Naomi Shimberg (‘23): economics.yale.edu/news/240502/ja…

The Department is proud to announce that three recent Yale economics graduates have been honored through the U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP): Jack Kelly (‘22), Sarah Moon (‘23), and Naomi Shimberg (‘23): economics.yale.edu/news/240502/ja…

What are the macroeconomic effects of mental illness in the United States?

Aleh Tsyvinski & coauthors analyze the economic toll of mental illness, accounting for a host of adverse economic outcomes not considered in earlier estimates: news.yale.edu/2024/04/22/nov…

Labor markets in higher-income countries are more meritocratic, meaning there is more skill-based sorting between workers and jobs. This matters for development in subtle ways, from Oriana Bandiera, Kotia, Lindenlaub, Chris Moser, and Andrea Prat nber.org/papers/w32375

Congrats to the newly appointed NBER affiliates, including 5 from Yale University!

▪️ Christopher Clayton (Int’l Finance & Macro)
▪️Kevin Donovan (Development)
▪️Mayara Felix (Int’l Trade, Development)
▪️Michael Peters (Growth)
▪️Jacob Wallace (Health)

Full story: nber.org/news/nber-appo…

How did the entry of television affect newspapers and news diets in the United States?

NEW in AEA Journals Micro, by Charles Angelucci, Julia Cage, & Michael Sinkinson: economics.yale.edu/research/media…

Rohini Pande of EGC/Yale Department of Economics speaking about how testing & iterating on program design through research can take good ideas to their potential, w Laura Arnold of Arnold Ventures and David Wilkinson of Tobin Center for Economic Policy at the last night's @Yale For Humanity event, Dallas.

Congrats to the newly appointed NBER affiliates, including 5 from Yale University!

▪️ Christopher Clayton (Int’l Finance & Macro)
▪️Kevin Donovan (Development)
▪️Mayara Felix (Int’l Trade, Development)
▪️Michael Peters (Growth)
▪️Jacob Wallace (Health)

Full story: nber.org/news/nber-appo…

Congrats to Prof. Barbara Biasi for winning the American Economic Association (@AEAjournals) 2024 Best Paper Award for her research on teacher salary structures!

Read the full Yale SOM story to learn more about the research: som.yale.edu/story/2024/pro…

How do you incorporate rich individual-level data into frameworks that have something to say about aggregates?

New work by Jonathan Eaton & Samuel Kortum: cowles.yale.edu/research/cfdp-…

How did the entry of television affect newspapers and news diets in the United States?

NEW in AEA Journals Micro, by Charles Angelucci, Julia Cage, & Michael Sinkinson: economics.yale.edu/research/media…

NEW Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper: An economic theory of mental illness to study its macroeconomic implications.

By Boaz Abramson (@Columbia_Biz), Job Boerma (@WIeconomics) & Aleh Tsyvinski (@YaleEconomics): cowles.yale.edu/research/cfdp-…

NEW Discussion Paper exploring consumers' privacy choices when firms can use their data to make personalized offers.

By Andrew Rhodes & Jidong Zhou: cowles.yale.edu/research/cfdp-…

Join our team! We're hiring for an Associate Program Manager role, geared towards early career professionals interested in research and public policy.

Learn more and apply here: tobin.yale.edu/careers/associ…

🔊PODCAST: Who defines quality of life?

#VoicesInDevelopment S2E4: Rohini Pande (EGC/Yale Department of Economics), Christopher Udry (@NorthwesternU Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern) & Francis Annan (@NatureAtCal) discuss spending time w local partners to determine priorities for economics research: egc.yale.edu/events/podcast…

A new study co-authored by Zack Cooper links rising prices for hospital care to lax antitrust enforcement.

Read the full story here: news.yale.edu/2024/04/24/lax…