Peter Lindert
Peter Lindert was awarded the Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History.
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Greg Clark - A Farewell to Alms
Greg Clark's book, "A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World" is published; read this UC Davis article for more details.
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Scott Carrell has been awarded a grant from the IES
Scott Carrell has been awarded a $918,000 grant from the US Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences for his project "Getting Qualified High School Seniors to Enroll in College: An Experimental Study in Vermont."
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Tim Cogley was appointed co-editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Tim Cogley was appointed co-editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.
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Robert C. Feenstra received the Cameron C. Bryan Distinguished Chair.
Robert C. Feenstra received the Cameron C. Bryan Distinguished Chair. The new endowed chair will support Feenstra's work in
international economics.
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Hilary Hoynes was appointed a co-editor at the AEJ Policy
Hilary W. Hoynes was appointed as a Co-Editor of the new AEA journal, the American Economic Journals: Economic Policy.
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Alan Olmstead is president of the EHA
Alan Olmstead has been appointed the President of the Economic History Association.
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Hoynes, Page and Stevens receive USDA grant
Hilary Hoynes, Marianne Page, and Ann Stevens received a two-year grant from the US Department of Agriculture to study the impact of food and nutrition programs on short and long run economic outcomes.
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Peter Lindert receives NSF grant
Peter Lindert received a National Science Foundation grant for “Global Prices and Incomes, 1200-1950 – Second Stage.”
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Ann Stevens receives SSA grant
Ann Stevens received a grant from the Social Security Administration for “Retirement Wealth Across Cohorts: The Role of Earnings Inequality and Pension Changes.”
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Karin Mayr visiting department until August 2008
Karin Mayr will be visiting our department from Austria through August 2008. Dr. Mayr received her Ph.D. in Economics from Johannes Kepler University of Linz where she is an Assistant Professor. Her fields of interest are International Migration, Public Economics and Political Economy.
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Rowena Gray received Humanities Graduate Student award
Graduate student Rowena Gray was awarded the 2007-08 UCD & Humanities Graduate Research Award in Economics by the Graduate Council subcommittee on Support and Welfare at UCDavis. The award is a monetary allowance to help further her research. Rowena will use this award for her research studies in the areas of history and economic growth.
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Peter Huckfeldt receives CPAC grant
Graduate student Peter Huckfeldt received a grant from the UCOP California Program on Access to Care for the project "Impacts of Recent Public Prenatal Health Insurance Eligibility Expansion."
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Knittel awarded the Barry D. McNutt Award for Excellence in Automotive Policy Analysis
Professor Knittel was awarded the 2008 Barry D. McNutt Award for Excellence in Automotive Policy Analysis, along with Jon Hughes and Dan Sperling, for their work on gasoline demand behavior.
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Knittel awarded NSF grant for $250,000
Professor Knittel has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (along with Victor Stango of Dartmouth) studying: "Information Technology, Outsourcing, Productivity and Industry Dynamics in a Service Industry." Roughly one half of the grant will be devoted to graduate student funding administered through the Institute of Governmental Affairs.
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Scott Carrell selected as a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Scott Carrell has been awarded a $55,000 grant from the NAED and Spencer foundation for his project "Raising College Students' Grades: A Controlled Experiment in Peer Effects."
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