Department of Economics

Devaki Ghose and Moogdho Mahzab Present at Young Economist Symposium (YES)

New research from UVA Professor Amalia Miller and her colleagues at Virginia Tech and Tulane University shows that attending elite schools has different effects on male and female students

Lee Coppock receives UVa's prestigious 2018 Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award

Professor Sandip Sukhtankar co-authored an essay about India's Public Distribution System, a food security program, in the Hindustan Times

UVA economist Edgar Olsen and colleagues find discrepancies in rental prices for black and white Americans

Professor Charlie Holt received this year's Thomas Jefferson Award for Scholarship- the highest honor given to members of the UVA Community

Professor Anton Korinek discusses artificial intelligence and its economic effects with UVA Today

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Thu Dec 13

Monroe Hall, Room 120, 12:00 - 1:30pm

Macro Research Group Meeting: Geoffrey Carr

Fri Dec 14

Monroe Hall, Room 120, 1:15 - 2:45pm

Practice Job Talk: Robin Cai

Thu Dec 20

Monroe Hall, Room 120, 12:00 - 1:30pm

Macro Research Group Meeting: TBD

Wed Jan 23

Monroe Hall, Room 120, 3:30 - 5:00pm

International Workshop: Ricardo Reyes-Heroles (FED Board)

Thu Jan 24

Monroe Hall, Room 120, 3:30 - 5:00pm

Applied Micro Economics Workshop: Adam Kapor

Recent Faculty Publications

Government Old-Age Support and Labor Supply

Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program

Lee Lockwood (with Daniel Fetter)

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Recent Faculty Publications

Incidental Bequests and the Choice to Self-Insure Late-Life Risks

Lee Lockwood

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Recent Faculty Publications

Pecuniary Externalities in Economies with Financial Frictions

Anton Korinek (with Eduardo Dávila)

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Recent Faculty Publications

How do Right-to-Carry Laws Affect Crime Rates?

Coping with Ambiguity Using Bounded- Variation Assumptions

John Pepper (with Charles Manski)

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Recent Faculty Publications

Do Female Officers Improve Law Enforcement Quality?

Effects on Crime Reporting and Domestic Violence

Amalia Miller (with Carmit Segal)

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Recent Faculty Publications

Moved to Opportunity

The Long-Run Effect of Public Housing Demolition on Children

Eric Chyn

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News | 12/11/2018

Ben Hamilton Finds Conference Presentations Excellent Preparation for the Job Market