Category: Department Updates
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Administrative Staff Employment Updates
Administrative Staff We currently welcome applications for one position. Economics Academic Assistant, Job # 78581 (Blank Ast 3) The economics academic assistant will provide support to faculty, academic and department affairs in a high-paced environment. This administrative position is fundamentally on campus and reports to the economics assistant department manager. To ensure full consideration, please…
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(Reverse) Price Discrimination with Information Design, American Economic Review, May 2024
This article, co-authored by Dong Wei, examines how price and information discrimination impact seller/consumer markets.
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Market Access, Trade Costs, and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Northern Tanzania, The Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2024
This article, co-authored by Jonathan Robinson and Alan Spearot, uncovers how these variables impact travel costs for villages seeking to improve their agricultural productivity.
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Monitoring in Small Firms: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Public Transit, American Economic Review, October 2024
This article, co-authored by David Schönholzer, focuses on how small firms struggle to grow, using evidence from a study of commuter minibuses in Kenya.
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Climate Risks and Foreign Direct Investment
Professor Galina Hale and Associate Professor Weishi Steadmon co-wrote this 2023 article in the Journal of International Economics, exploring how climate-related risks have increased in recent decades, both in terms of the frequency of extreme weather events and the implementation of climate-change mitigation policies. This paper explores whether multinational firms react to such risks by…
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Cleaner Waters and Urbanization
Assistant Professor Jeremy West published this 2023 research study in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, examining how water pollution changes in rural watersheds after Clean Water Act-sponsored projects are implemented. His study finds that projects significantly reducing surface water pollution increase local human population and residential development, as people choose to live in…
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The 0.0003 Percent: Short-run dynamics of extreme wealth in America
Professor Nirvikar Singh co-wrote this 2023 article in the Review of Income and Wealth, examining short-run dynamics and changing sources of wealth among the Forbes 400 annual list of wealthiest individuals in the United States, before and after the 2008–2009 financial crisis. He analyzes the interaction of the growth of wealth with education, age, and…