It was another busy year for the Economics Department, with faculty and graduate student research activities, research conferences, seminars, and graduate student awards.
News & Announcements Archive
Incoming Assistant Professor Yujung Hwang’s Dissertation Selected as a Winner of the 2019 HCEO Dissertation Prize
Incoming Assistant Professor Yujung Hwang’s Dissertation on “General Equilibrium Theory and Empirical Analysis of Immigrants’ Neighborhood Sorting and Social Integration” has been selected as a winner of the 2019 Human […]
2018-2019 Professor Joel Dean Undergraduate Teaching Awards Announced
Congratulations to Emma Kalish, Shiqi Wang and Xinyu Zhao, the winners of the 2018-2019 Professor Joel Dean Undergraduate Teaching Awards! These awards are given annually to those graduate students who […]
Professor Robert Moffitt Elected as a Member of The National Academy of Sciences
Robert Moffitt, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics, was elected as a member of The National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 100 new members and […]
Four Graduate Students Receive 2018-2019 Awards
The Economics Department is pleased to announce that four graduate students have received awards for the 2018-2019 academic year. Xinyu Zhao received the Eugenio and Patricia Castillo Award for the […]
Finalists for Excellence in Teaching Awards for KSAS Announced
Prerna Rakheja is a finalist for this year’s Excellence in Teaching Awards for the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences in the Undergraduate Teaching – Teaching Assistant category.
Professor Robert Moffitt Coauthored a Report on Child Poverty
Professor Moffitt’s coauthored report on child poverty, commissioned by the US Congress, was released by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Child Poverty Rate Could Be Cut in Half […]
JHU PhD student Shujaat Khan’s coauthored column featured in VoxEU
Household indebtedness did not weaken US monetary transmission post-crisis There is little evidence on whether deteriorating household balance sheets in advanced economies have made monetary policy less effective since the […]
The Department Welcomes New Faculty for the 2019-2020 Academic Year
Yujung Hwang and Lixiong Li will be joining the department for the 2019-2020 academic year. Yujung Hwang is an applied microeconomist with particular interests on culture, family, and immigration. Lixiong Li’s primary […]
HCEO – 3 Questions with Robert Moffitt
Professor Robert Moffitt was interviewed by the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group at University of Chicago. 3 Questions with Robert Moffitt