Past News
UCD Economics Alumn Matthew Larsen's research covered in NYT
Joint work by Douglas Harris of Tulane University and Matt Larsen, UCD Economics Alumn and Assistant Professor of Economics at Lafayette College, appeared in a New York Times article on the remarkable turnaround in school outcomes in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.
Woo wins journal award for high-impact research on the Chinese economy
UC Davis Economics Professor Wing Thye Woo received the 2018 Best Paper Award from the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies for his solo-authored article, "China Meets the Middle-Income Trap: The large potholes in the road to catching up."
Esra Kose, Elira Kuka, and Na'ama Shenhav uncover the effects of women's suffrage on children's human capital
New research by recent UCD alumnae finds that state-level suffrage laws increased educational attainment and income among disadvantaged children
Katherine Eriksson receives 2018-2019 UC Davis Hellman Fellowship Award
Hellman Fellows Fund supports promising early-career researchers throughout UC Davis
UC Davis to host 2nd Annual Economics Alumni Conference on May 11-12
2018 Alumni Conference will bring together PhD students past and present to discuss research and mentoring
Meet the Students of the Economics Department at UC Davis
Here at the History, Economics, and East Asian Advising Center, we have several wonderful and talented peer advisors that can share first hand experiences as a UC Davis student. Explore why they chose their majors, read about their professional goals, and much more!
Research by Brian Lee, an honors undergraduate in Economics, recognized at the Harvard National Collegiate Research Conference
Lee's project explores the long-run effects of US bombings in Cambodia
Katherine Eriksson and Jenna Stearns receive ISS Junior Faculty Research Grants
Funding from the UC Davis Institute for Social Sciences will finance projects on ethnic enclaves, teacher absence
Nicolas Caramp wins Central Bank of Argentina's 2017 Dissertation Award
Prebisch Award recognizes Professor Caramp's MIT thesis "Macroeconomics and Financial Fragility"
Jorda and Taylor get more attention for work on long-run asset returns
New study featured by The Economist and Bloomberg
Financial Times profiles Oscar Jorda and Alan Taylor's research on "the rate of return on everything"
Study answers classic questions about asset returns using 145 years of newly assembled data
New study by Christopher Meissner finds that fiscal austerity contributed to the rise of the Nazi Party
Professor Meissner's findings were recently featured in Newsweek and Vox
Giovanni Peri featured on This American Life
UC Davis Economics Professor Addresses Impacts of Immigration on US Labor Markets
Robert Feenstra elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society
One of 20 economists invited to join prestigious association in 2017
Peter Lindert offers a global view on government redistribution over the last 100 years
VoxEU column charts "the rise and future of progressive redistribution" around the world
Brendan Price wins 2017 Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award
Annual prize recognizes "the best PhD dissertation on employment-related issues".
