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Weidenbaum Center Invests $135,000 to Advance Graduate Research in Policy-Relevant Fields
Congratulations, Rudolph Chan! The Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy has awarded a total of $135,000 to support four exceptional PhD students in Political Science, Economics, and Sociology through the 2025–2026 Weidenbaum Graduate Fellowship.
U.S. News and World Report Rankings
We are pleased to announce that several A&S graduate programs have risen in the U.S. News and World Report rankings this year.
The Charles Leven Memorial Prize 2023
This year’s Charles Leven Memorial Prize for the best second-year paper has been awarded to Hsuan-Hua Huang.
Don’t Blame Covid for the Worker Shortage
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
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
Where have all America’s workers gone?
The supply of workers is at pre-pandemic levels, but demand is far greater
Young, Educated American Men ‘Quiet Quit’ Jobs the Most During Covid
Dain Lee, Jinhyeok Park, and Yongseok Shin quoted in Bloomberg article on January 9, 2023.
2022 and 2021 Charles Leven Memorial Prize Winners
This year’s Charles Leven Memorial Prize for the best second year paper has been awarded to...
BBQ & Byes 2019
Sending off the Department of Economics' Undergraduate Class of 2019.
2018-2019 Job Market Candidates
Meet graduate students from the Department of Economics who have entered the job market this year.