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Economics

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Our world-class department owes its reputation to outstanding faculty dedicated to teaching and research, as well as engaged students who take advantage of learning opportunities in and beyond the classroom.

The Economics major and minor are open to all undergraduates. The Ph.D. program has 125 students in residence. 

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Our Faculty

 

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Meet our Faculty

Our distinguished faculty includes fellows of the American Economic Association, members of the National Academy of Sciences and editors of the American Economic Review and other prestigious journals. Longtime faculty member Dale Mortensen was winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Economics.

 

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Recent Publications

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Federico Bugni and Ivan Canay awarded 2022 Arnold Zellner Award.

Federico Bugni and Ivan Canay have been awarded the 2022 Arnold Zellner Award for the paper “Testing Continuity of a Density via g-order statistics in the Regression Discontinuity Design”, published in the Journal of Econometrics in 2021. The Zellner Award recognizes the best theoretical paper published by the Journal of Econometrics in a given year, following a selection process where associate editors and co-editors submit a list of nominations, and then an award committee comprised of fellows of the Journal of Econometrics selects the winner. The award was announced at the 50th Anniversary reception of the journal at the 2023 ASSA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Rhodes Scholar Irena Petryk

ECONOMICS MAJOR IRENA PETRYK NAMED 2023 RHODES SCHOLAR & TRUMAN SCHOLAR

A senior in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Petryk is majoring in economics and international studies. She is interested in U.S. foreign policy and strengthening international commitments on economic development.

The Rhodes Scholarships, the oldest and perhaps best-known award for international study, provide all expenses for multiple years of study at the University of Oxford in England. Scholars are chosen not only for exceptional academic achievement but also a demonstrated ambition for social impact.

The Truman Scholarship is the premier graduate scholarship for aspiring public service leaders in the United States. Scholars were recommended by seventeen independent selection panels based on the finalists’ academic success and leadership accomplishments, as well as their likelihood of becoming public service leaders.

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Ryan Family gift for applied economics honors Northwestern President Emeritus Morton Schapiro

Created from the Ryan Family’s historic $480 million gift, announced by the University in September 2021, the Morton Schapiro Center for Applied Economics will fuel innovative research made possible by the power of advanced computing and big data.

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Economics Video Series

 

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News and Events

 

Weekly Seminars

 
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Our weekly seminars bring renowned economists from universities around the globe. Explore all 7 of our seminar series, which are held in fall and spring quarters.

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Events

 
Jun
12
2023
Senior Lunch & Awards Ceremony

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston

Every year the department holds a senior awards celebration to honor the students who were granted honors for their senior theses, stud...

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News

 
Undergraduate student Jessica Bradford selected for Expanding Diversity in Economics Summer Institute 2023
Economics BA/MA Student Daniel Luo Awarded National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship
Northwestern Team Wins First Place in UChicago Econometrics Game
New York Times Honors Rebecca Blank
Economics Major Steven Jiang Featured in Northwestern Now for His Two Startup Companies

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