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Felipe Goncalves and Steven Mello
Goncalves and Mello awarded the 2023 Rees Dissertation Prize
Aug. 8, 2023

Felipe Goncalves *18 and Steven Mello *19 co-authored studies in each other's prize-winning dissertations.

11 pre-doctoral researchers in front of Louis A Simpson International Bldg
At this year’s pre-doctoral research conference, young researchers present new work to peers
July 11, 2023

On June 21, 2023, a group of eight pre-doctoral research assistants from four units within the Economics Department at Princeton University had the opportunity to present their own research to a group of their peers.

Charissa Jefferson and Adrianna Taraboletti stand in front of display case in the Section library
Princeton's Industrial Relations Library wins American Library Association award
March 22, 2023

Princeton University's Industrial Relations Library has been awarded the 2023 RUSA John Sessions Memorial Award. This award recognizes a library or library system which has made a significant effort to work with the labor community and by doing so has brought recognition to the history and contribution of the labor movement to the development…

Headshot of Orley Ashenfelter with NPR Planet Money logo
Ashenfelter's Minimum Wage Study Profiled on NPR
Feb. 17, 2021
Headshots of Leah Boustan and Elisa Jácome with cover of American Economic Review
Boustan, Jácome published in AER Feb 2021 issue
Feb. 16, 2021
Zoom gallery view of 6 research asssitants: Camilla Adams, Myera Rashid, Katie Guyot, Sarah Frick, Kaan Cankat, Cecilia Moreira
Meet our Senior Research Specialists
Feb. 15, 2021
Headshot of Leah Boustan with banner of the American Economic Review
Boustan continues to examine intergenerational mobility of immigrants
Nov. 16, 2020
Photo of David Lee wearing a navy business suit, blue shirt, and red printed tie
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
Close up of magnolia bloom on campus
Call for Papers: 2021 Northeast Labor Symposium for Early Career Economists
Oct. 22, 2020
Headshot of Leah Boustan wearing a deep purple floral printed blazer with a pink blouse.
Boustan delivers lecture at Harvard and Stanford this fall
Oct. 21, 2020
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