NEWS: ACADEMIC YEAR 2017-18
October
October 11, 2018
Over the course of the 2017-2018 academic year, Associated Student Government (ASG) collected nominations for the Faculty Honor Roll from the student body. Nearly 200 students submitted faculty members, writing thorough and complex portraits of the educators who make Northwestern the institution that it is. ASG wishes to honor the work of the faculty whose dedication and care for students led to their inclusion on this list.
October 26, 2017
The Center's mission is to address the challenges of overcoming poverty and to improve well-being in the developing world.
Teaching Assistants Honored and Bies Prizes Awarded at Fall Luncheon
October 26, 2017
Fourteen Economics Teaching Assistants were honored for excellence in teaching: Sergio Armella Olazabal, David Benson, José Carreno-Garcia, Gabriela Cugat, Ricardo Dahis, Ana Danieli, Jamie Daubenspeck, Loren Fryxell, Joseph Hardwick, Matthew Leisten, Giacomo Magistretti, James Myatt, Dmitry Sedov and Alex Theisen.
Victoria Marone and Laia Navarro-Sola received the Susan Bies Prize for Doctoral Student Research on Economics and Public Policy. The awards are given to the best public policy papers presented as part of the Economics 501 Graduate Student seminar.
October 4, 2017
Stephanie and Chiara's dissertation proposals were selected by a panel of reviewers as two of the 16 best submissions from among a very competitive pool of 146 proposal submissions.
August
August 2, 2018
Mothers in Denmark are less productive at work, study finds, partially explaining gender-wage gap.
July
July 30, 2018
Economics graduates receive 5th highest salary according to a recent PayScale’s year-long survey.
July 30, 2018
Professor Gary Saul Morson and President Morton Schapiro explain in a recent New Yorker article why economics needs the humanities and vice versa.
July 20, 2018
“Believe in yourself and in your future” may sound like a vapid self-help mantra. But there is growing evidence that it can be used as an anti-poverty strategy.
July 20, 2018
Highlights include: graduation & awards, new faculty, Ph.D. placements, a faculty spotlight, and more!
July 10, 2018
Development economists like Christopher Udry are identifying the root causes of poverty in the developing world — and potential solutions.
June
June 28, 2018
Using a detailed historical case – the cotton revolution in China – we can see that patriarchal beliefs are indeed highly resilient but also that they can be transformed by a sufficiently large increase in women’s productivity. The image of highly productive women positively shapes cultural beliefs about women’s ability, and then translates into a more positive view about women in general.
June 26, 2018
The Department of Economics welcomed over 300 graduating students and their families at our Annual Senior Lunch and Awards.
June 20, 2018
When it’s time to enter the working world, Weinberg College students possess two powerful advantages: a broad and transferable skill set, and a successful and devoted alumni network. “The trick is getting students to believe the former, and to avail themselves of the latter,” says Jane Corey Holt, director of the College’s Austin J. Waldron Student-Alumni Connections Program.
June 12, 2018
Nobel Symposium on Money and Banking, May 26 - 28, 2018 | www.houseoffinance.se
June 12, 2018
Nobel Symposium on Money and Banking, May 26 - 28, 2018 | www.houseoffinance.se
June 8, 2018
Quick take: Joel Mokyr, a foremost 19th century scholar at Northwestern University, suggests that the Industrial Revolution and World War I are less of a window into what’s coming from our tech revolution than people presume.
June 6, 2018
Joseph Hardwick, a PhD candidate in economics who, as one student said, "is responsible and enthusiastic in teaching, knowledgeable and always eager to learn, and most importantly, sincerely caring [toward] his students.”
April
April 20, 2018
April 19, 2018
The Undergraduate Economic Society (UES) successfully planned and produced the second annual Northwestern Economics Tournament (NET) on April 7, 2018. NET welcomed 16 high school teams from Chicago and the surrounding suburbs to the Kellogg Global Hub to participate in a day filled with quiz bowls and lectures from our distinguished graduate students and faculty members.
April 10, 2018
The NEJM paper is part of a larger project, which the authors recently wrote up for the American Economic Review. That paper found that the size of the drop in income after an illness was about five times that of the resulting medical bills, suggesting that the financial strain is likely to be much more driven by income loss than health-care costs.
April 10, 2018
The number spotlights how preference for male children in India is affecting the health and well-being of its women.
March
March 8, 2018
No matter how generous the eligibility criteria and coverage of Modicare, it will have limited effect unless eligible households enroll.
March 1, 2018
Throughout her career, IPR economist Cynthia Kinnan has sought to bring scientific tools to the conversation about poverty in the developing world.
February
February 21, 2018
Monetbello Quebec, February 7, 2018
February 21, 2018
Income inequality has been on the rise for decades in the United States, but a new working paper looks at how that might be affecting macroeconomic activity through the aggregate demand channel.
February 20, 2018
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Economics, Finance and Management category goes, in this tenth edition, to Timothy Bresnahan, Ariel Pakes and Robert Porter for founding and shaping the field of empirical industrial organization, a branch of economics that has developed fundamental techniques to measure market power (understood as the ability of a firm to control prices in a given industry). “Motivated by important and policy-relevant questions in applied economics,” remarks the jury in its citation, “they developed methodologies that had a significant and long-lasting impact on subsequent work in industrial organization as well as other applied fields.”
February 1, 2018
How program managers can use random assignment (i.e., a lottery) to build evidence that can improve customer service.
January
Wolfgang Kasper Reviews Joel Mokyr’s Book
January 22, 2018
Faculty Receive Awards at 2018 ASSA Meeting
January 17, 2018
Charles Manski was honored with the 2017 Distinguished Fellows Award at the 2018 ASSA Annual Meeting held in Philadelphia, PA on January 5-7, 2018. Additionally, Martin Eichenbaum and Lawrence Christiano were awarded with the AEJ: Macroeconomics Best Paper Award.
View photos from the event.January 11, 2018
Highlights include: Faculty Updates, Donor Honor Roll, an Alumna Q&A and more!
January 3, 2018
Elise Wetzel '87 created and built one of the nation's fastest-growing food chains, by Daniel P. Smith
December
December 21, 2017
Riccardo Marchingiglio was one of six recipients of the Stigler Center Ph.D. Dissertation Award. He received $15,000 and the designation as a Bradley Fellow. He was selected for his academic excellence and rigorous research on topics relating to the political, economic, and cultural obstacles to better working markets.
Northwestern Economics Takes 2nd Place in Regional College Federal Reserve Challenge
December 15, 2017
On Monday, November 13, Northwestern University took second place in the Regional College Federal Reserve Challenge at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago over top schools from around the Midwest. The competition involved two rounds, where in each the team had to present a discussion of about the state of the economy and proposing Federal Reserve responses to it, and then taking questions from a panel of Federal Reserve economists. The University of Wisconsin - Whitewater won, and the University of Chicago finished in third place. Mark Witte was the faculty adviser to the team.
The presenting team members were: Megan Angell, Helen Burkhardt, Olyvia Chinchilla, Pranav Dhingra, Hassan Sayed
The research assistant team members were: Samuel Webber, Anushka Jain, Christopher Yang Guo, Hadi Shiraz, Joanna Wan, Patrick Liu, Rahul S Shukla, Yuqi Zh
December 7, 2017
The honorary degree ceremony will be held on Monday, June 11, 2018.
Robert Gordon Featured
December 5, 2016
Professor Robert Gordon was selected by Bloomberg Markets as one of the 50 Most Influential People in the World for 2016. His book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, was a finalist for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Business Book of the Year Award and was featured by the New York Times as among the 100 Most Notable Books of 2016. In late November he traveled to the Retreat of the IMF Executive Board in Williamsburg, Virginia, where a morning of presentation and discussion was devoted to his ideas on the sources of slowing worldwide growth.
