BU Economics PhD students’ recent grant awards
Michael Gechter and Amrit Amirapu received a joint grant from the Weiss Family Program Fund for Research in Development Economics. Anusha Nath also received a grant from the organization. Nathaniel Young received a grant from BU’s Institute for Economic Development funded by the Bank of Credit and Common School to travel and conduct research in […]
BU Economics PhD students’ recent publications
Matt Johnson had a paper published in Science with two co-authors: Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss by David I. Levine, Michael W. Toffel, Matthew S. Johnson, Science, May 2012, Vol. 336 no. 6083 pp. 907-911 Russell Weinstein had a paper joint with BU Economics Professor Kevin Lang accepted […]
First-Year PhD Summer Stipend Prize for Graduates of the Economics Master’s Program Announced
The Economics Department is pleased to announce a new prize providing financial support for the top graduate of our Economics Master’s Program pursuing a Ph.D. at BU. This prize will provide a summer stipend of $5000 payable the first summer in the Ph.D. program. The prize was made possible by a generous donation from the […]
BU Economics ranked #12 by RePEc, December 2013
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) releases a monthly report listing the Top 25% US Economics Departments. The rankings are are based on data about authors who have registered with the RePEc Author Service, institutions listed on EDIRC, bibliographic data collected by RePEc, citation analysis performed by CitEc and popularity data compiled by LogEc. BU Economics […]
BU Economics Professor Randall Ellis on Healthcare.gov
BU Economics Professor Randall Ellis recently commented on Healthcare.gov: The turnaround is telling, said Randall Ellis, a professor of economics at Boston University. The site is now “greatly improved,” Ellis told TechNewsWorld. “It is now much easier to use and to navigate, with relatively few glitches.” There was little media coverage of the significant improvement […]
BU Economics Professor Claudia Olivetti on “Why Some Women Try to Have It All”
BU Economics Professor Claudia Olivetti recently weighed in “Why Some Women Try to Have It All”: Consider two women. Eleonora Patacchini is an economics professor at Syracuse University. Back in Italy, where she grew up, her mother was a professor. Claudia Olivetti, an economics professor at Boston University, also grew up in Italy; her mother […]
BU Economics Professor Pierre Perron and global warming
In the last couple of hours, BU Economics Professor Pierre Perron has generated a few more cites, this time in different outlets than usual — National Geographic, Mother Jones, Climate News Network, and the BBC to name a few. His paper, Statistically derived contributions of diverse human influences to twentieth-century temperature changes, coauthored with Francisco Estrada […]