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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.

While most U.S. workers are putting in fewer hours, men in the top 10% of earners cut back their time on the job the most, according to a new study

The supply of workers is at pre-pandemic levels, but demand is far greater

Dain Lee, Jinhyeok Park, and Yongseok Shin quoted in Bloomberg article on January 9, 2023.