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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

Two times in a row! Our Economics Department won the JHU Intramural 3vs3 Basketball League last night and the JHU Kickball Tournament in late September. Kudos to our teams! See the photo […]

Congratulations to Jiaxiong Yao, Yiyang Li, Yajing Jiang, Alexandria Zhang, Metin Uyanik,  and Mikhail Smirnov, who all successfully defended their dissertations.

Congratulations to Marco Cornia, Sevcan Yesiltas, Ryan Bush, Burcin Kisacikoglu, Boqun Wang and  Sang Ah Lee, who all successfully defended their dissertations.

Professor John Quah was elected a Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. This society publishes Economic Theory, one of the top journals of the field of […]