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Announcing the Recipients of the 2021 Book Awards
Aug. 3, 2022

Two awards for outstanding books published in 2021 in labor economics

Street of Gold
"Streets of Gold" in the media- including NYT data visualization
June 14, 2022

Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success by Ran Abramitsky and Leah Boustan piques interest in the press, academia, and in podcasts.

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Orley Ashenfelter interviewed on Environmental Insights podcast
April 19, 2022

Orley Ashenfelter, Professor of Economics, was interviewed by Robert Stavins, the A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. Professor Stavins hosts a podcast, Environmental Insights: Conversations on policy and…

Screenshot of The Economics of Wine video-Orley Ashenfelter
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
Logo for the Urban Economics Association's 2020 online Lectures series
Boustan delivered an online lecture for the Urban Economics Association in June
Sept. 1, 2020
Headshot of Dean Ceci Rouse wearing a black blazer and grey blouse
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
Photo of Orley Ashenfelter, showing head and shoulders
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
Headshot of Elisa Jacome
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
Allende presented at Urban Economics Association North American Meeting
Oct. 21, 2019
Louis Hyman awarded the William G. Bowen Award
Oct. 10, 2019
John H. Pencavel awarded Richard A. Lester Book Award
Oct. 10, 2019
Pauline Leung
Leung presented at IZA Workshop on Labor Market Institutions
Oct. 6, 2019