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COVID table tent: "Maximum table capacity-3 people"
JIM-supporting junior faculty, especially during COVID
March 9, 2021

Scholars visiting the Section establish a means for building community and support among junior faculty and postdoctoral researchers during the pandemic.

Christopher Neilson and Sloan Foundation logo
Neilson announced as a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow
Feb. 19, 2021

Congratulations to Christopher Neilson on being selected as a 2021 Sloan Foundation Research Fellow.

Headshot of Orley Ashenfelter with NPR Planet Money logo
Ashenfelter's Minimum Wage Study Profiled on NPR
Feb. 17, 2021

Study by Orley Ashenfelter and Štěpán Jurajda

Headshots of Leah Boustan and Elisa Jácome with cover of American Economic Review
Boustan, Jácome published in AER Feb 2021 issue
Feb. 16, 2021

Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome, Santiago Perez publish in Feb 2021 issue of AER.

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
Allende presented at Urban Economics Association North American Meeting
Oct. 21, 2019
John H. Pencavel awarded Richard A. Lester Book Award
Oct. 10, 2019
Louis Hyman awarded the William G. Bowen Award
Oct. 10, 2019
Pauline Leung
Leung presented at IZA Workshop on Labor Market Institutions
Oct. 6, 2019
Eleanor Choi
Eleanor Choi presents at EALE Conference- Uppsala University, Sweden
Sept. 24, 2019
Ellora Derenoncourt
Derenoncourt awarded Allan Nevins Prize in American Economic History by the Economic History Association
Sept. 23, 2019
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Jiwon Choi presents at Urban Economics Association Summer School
Sept. 23, 2019
Headshot of Christoper Neilson with SBA and Payroll Protection Program logos
Neilson awarded NSF grant to fund research on centralized school choice mechanisms
Sept. 23, 2019
Boustan speaks about black migration on NJTV progam about Newark
Sept. 23, 2019
Boustan delivers keynote at World Bank Urbanization and Poverty Reduction Research Conference in September 2019
Sept. 23, 2019
Orley Ashenfelter was elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS), the nation’s oldest scholarly organization.
July 17, 2019
Orley Ashenfelter's presentation at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics Scientific Council Roundtable 2019
April 11, 2019
Craig Olson, a leading Industrial Relations scholar, passed away on February 18, 2019.
Feb. 26, 2019
Will Dobbie has been named a 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship
Feb. 19, 2019