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Ashenfeter and Card profiled as Pioneers of Difference-in-Differences
Nov. 8, 2022

Orley Ashenfelter and David Card are both profiled in a fun video series

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New Exhibit Shines Spotlight on J. Douglas Brown
Oct. 25, 2022

On October 7, 2022 members of the Industrial Relations Section and Firestone Library gathered to celebrate the opening of an exhibit that highlights the contributions of labor economist J. Douglas Brown, whose personal philosophy and expertise informed the design of the Social Security Act. Brown was an IR Section alum and served as Section…

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Leah Boustan participates in keynote address at UPenn
Oct. 21, 2022

Leah Boustan and co-author Ran Abramitzky deliver a keynote presentation as part of the 2022 Migration and Organizations Conference

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Lee studies income inequality and unemployment insurance policy
Nov. 13, 2020
Neilson’s paper is published in the October 2020 issue of the Journal of Public Economics
Oct. 23, 2020
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Call for Papers: 2021 Northeast Labor Symposium for Early Career Economists
Oct. 22, 2020
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Boustan delivers lecture at Harvard and Stanford this fall
Oct. 21, 2020
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Orley Ashenfelter is profiled in Economists in the Wild video series
Oct. 2, 2020
Combined covers for the American Economic Review and the Annual Review of Economics
Two papers by Mas accepted by AER and ARE
Sept. 28, 2020
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Boustan delivered an online lecture for the Urban Economics Association in June
Sept. 1, 2020
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Rouse to host conversation with Anthony Jack Sept 30 at 4:30 pm – 5:45 pm
Sept. 1, 2020
Headshot of Leah Boustan wearing a deep purple floral printed blazer with a pink blouse.
Boustan's paper is published in the July 2020 issue of the Journal of Urban Economics
July 29, 2020
Bar graph of Overall Racial Disparities for Subject Being Black/Hispanic on Probability of Force of at Least Specified Severity
Lieberman explores racial disparities in use of force by police
July 22, 2020
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Ashenfelter served on ABA panel discussion on class actions over nurse wage information
July 16, 2020
African-American economist Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University, Dept of Economics
Video of Derenoncourt's research included in AEA project
July 6, 2020
Caucasian economist Felix Koenig
Koenig wins EALE Young Labour Economics Prize
July 3, 2020
Clockwise (L-R) Jared Grogan, Bailey Palmer, Franco Calle, Victoria Angelova
Four Research Assistants discuss their time at Princeton
July 1, 2020
Neilson and collaborators survey small businesses re: COVID-19
May 4, 2020
Labor Lunch Workshops and Labor Seminars Suspended
March 11, 2020
Professor Chris Neilson surrounded by 18 graduate students and research associates.
Neilson and collaborators presented at International Development Bank in November 2019
Feb. 26, 2020
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Jácome and Boustan presented at Social Science History Association
Dec. 18, 2019
2 dot plots, side by side, showing adult income levels of white boys raised in 25th percentile in US, according to 1880 census (left) and 1910 census (right), based on father's birthplace. Immigrant sons rose higher than US-born sons.
Research by Abramitzky, Boustan, Jácome, and Pérez profiled in New York Times
Nov. 7, 2019
Leah P. Boustan
Boustan delivers annual W.J. Usery, Jr. Distinguished Lecture at Georgia State
Nov. 5, 2019