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This year’s Charles Leven Memorial Prize for the best second-year paper has been awarded to Hsuan-Hua Huang.

More than $480,000 in seed grants will support 10 teams of faculty members using advanced computational tools to tackle urgent social issues.

Installation of George-Levi Gayle as the John H. Biggs Distinguished Professor of Economics

Installation of Yongseok Shin as the Douglass C. North Distinguished Professor

Steve Fazzari quoted in TIME on March 21, 2023.

Professor Ian Fillmore was featured in WalletHub's piece about How to Lower Your Car Insurance Premiums.

Ana and SangMok received official communication from the dean’s office that their tenure cases were approved by the Board of Trustees.

George Gayle has agreed to serve as chair of the Department of Economics

The labor market remains incredibly tight in the U.S. which usually means fewer people are working. In this case, though, it’s mostly that workers are choosing to work fewer hours. Specifically, higher-earning men have chosen to cut back their hours worked perhaps because the pandemic made them reassess their priorities. That could signal a wider trend toward better work-life balance as more and more workers adjust their work lives to make a similar decision.

Last month, Yongseok Shin, professor of economics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, published a new working paper, “Where Are the Workers? From Great Resignation to Quiet Quitting,” through the National Bureau of Economic Research with graduate students Dain Lee and Jinhyeok Park.

Installation of Limor Golan as the Laurence H. Meyer Professor of Economics

The ranks of American workers are thinning—often because people aged out of the workforce, or never entered it. Their absence could impede the economy’s ability to grow, and make for a less prosperous future.