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The Charles Leven Memorial Prize 2023

4.28.23

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

Installation of George-Levi Gayle

4.17.23

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

Installation of Yongseok Shin

4.3.23

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

Does the Banking Sector Turmoil Make a Recession More Likely?

3.21.23

Steve Fazzari quoted in TIME on March 21, 2023.

How to Lower Your Car Insurance Premiums

3.16.23

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

Congratulations, Ana Babus and SangMok Lee!

3.3.23

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

Announcement of the new chair of the Economics Department

3.2.23

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

Is the Tight Labor Market Due to Fewer Workers — or Fewer Hours Worked?

2.16.23

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.

Where are the workers? WashU research exposes ‘quiet quitting’ impact on labor shortage

2.6.23

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

2.2.23

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

Don’t Blame Covid for the Worker Shortage

1.27.23

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.

High-Earning Men Are Cutting Back on Their Working Hours

1.26.23

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