Congratulations to Edmund Crawley, Liuchun Deng and Kevin Yuan, the winners of the 2016-2017 Professor Joel Dean Undergraduate Teaching Awards! These awards are given annually to those graduate students who have shown excellence as a teaching assistant or instructor in the undergraduate economics program. The award was initiated by Joel and Monia Dean and generously […]
The Economics Department is pleased to announce that five graduate students have received awards for the 2016-2017 academic year. Yen-Lin Chiu and Derin Aksit received the Eugenio and Patricia Castillo Awards for the best performance in the first two years in the program and Edmund Crawley received the Bruce Hamilton Research Seminar Award for the […]
The Economics Department has received a large number of remembrances of Professor Christ. We have consequently created a web page for Carl with a photo gallery and with many comments from Carl’s students, friends, and colleagues. Anyone who wishes to share their memories is encouraged to do so, and can post comments on the page
Carl Christ, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, passed away on April 21, 2017. Professor Christ was born on September 19, 1923 in Chicago and graduated from the University of Chicago Lab School. He earned his BS in Physics from the University in Chicago in 1943 and his Ph.D. in […]
The Hopkins Health, Labor, Education and Development Economics Conference (H2LED) is organized by the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Carey Business School, and the Economics Department at KSAS. The conference will be held on May 19th at the Carey Business School. For more details, please visit the event page.
Professor Debraj Ray (New York University), delivered the 2016-2017 Richard Ely Distinguished Lecture Series April 3-5.
Nicholas Papageorge’s Work on Education and Race was quoted in the Baltimore Sun. Link to the research paper. He was also interviewed on NPR Marketplace and Fox45 News.
A Conference on Social and Political Economy is a joint endeavor between JHUs Kreiger School of Arts and Sciences and JHUs Carey Business School and will have a changing sub-topic for each year. The inaugural conference will take place at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Harbor East Campus, 100 International Drive, 4th Floor Conference […]
Faculty and graduate students were well represented at the AEA Meetings in Chicago, January 6-8. Professors Balat, Carroll, Hu, Jeanne, Korinek, Papageorge, and Wright were on the program. The alumni reception was attended by more than 50 people and by many of the Department’s graduate alumni, with those attending having the opportunity to meet old […]
Two times in a row! Our Economics Department won the JHU Kickball Championship in late September and last night our team won the JHU Intramural 3vs3 Basketball League. Kudos to our teams! See the photo gallery for more pictures of our winners.
