Sabrina Peng, Winner of the Annual International Atlantic Economic Society Undergraduate Paper Competition
Winners of Snavely Outstanding Summer Paper Award
Hoo-Rizons: Former Cavalier Baseball Star Crushes Yankees, Then His Final Exams
Class of 2020: Homegrown Squash Player Shines in Growing Program
Devaki Ghose Wins Graduate Student Award at EIIT Conference
In October 2019, Devaki Ghose won the Graduate Student Award at the 2019 Empirical Investigations in International Trade Conference for her paper "Trade, Internal Migration, and Human Capital: Who Gains from India's IT Boom?" A link to past student prize winners can be found here, https://www.freit.org/EIIT/2019/GradComp.php .
Diego Legal-Canisa Presents JMP at Conferences in the UK and Mexico
Between August and November 2019, Diego Legal-Cañisá travelled widely to present his JMP, titled "Unemployment Insurance with Consumer Bankruptcy," at conferences in the UK (at the Econometric Society European Summer Meeting at the University of Manchester and the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Money, Macro & Finance Research Group at the London School of Economics) and in Mexico (at the
Hundanol Kebede Presents Research at MWIEDC
Hundanol presents his paper, “The gains from market integration: The welfare effects of new rural roads in Ethiopia,” at the Midwest International Conference on Development Economics (MWIEDC), held at Purdue University. In his paper, he estimates the welfare gains from a massive rural road expansion project that doubled the total road length in the country between 2011 and 2015. He uses tools from international trade theory and details household level data to quantify household-level welfare gains from the road expansion and how much of that is attributed to trade mechanisms.
Week of March 26th Newsletter
Moogdho Mahzab Presents at PacDev Conference
Moogdho Mahzab, a fifth year PhD student of Economics, presented his paper "Dishonest Politicians and Public Goods Provision" at the Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev) 2020, hosted by University of California, Berkeley, on March 14. The conference was organized virtually with around 300 people joining it. A good number of papers on development economics were presented by researchers from around the globe. Moogdho presented his work at the "Taxes and Public Goods" session.