Departmental News

BU Professor Margo to give public lecture in November: “Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality”

Professor Robert Margo will give a public lecture November 13 entitled “Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality” as part of a series sponsored by the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University.  The series, entitled “Economic Racism in Perspective: Past and Present in the US and Germany,” includes three public lectures […]

BU Economics PhD Student Elisabeth Perlman awarded Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation

BU Economics PhD Student Elisabeth Perlman was awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. The grant was awarded to support her work on the paper “Dense Enough To Be Brilliant: Patents, Urbanization, and Transportation in Nineteenth Century America”, part of her dissertation titled “Three Papers on the Expansion of Information and […]

BU Economics PhD student Matthew Johnson awarded Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy grant

PhD student Matthew Johnson received a grant from the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, a Washington, DC, based think tank. The grant is together with Michael Toffel at the Harvard Business School and David Levine at the University of California, Berkeley. Their project is to develop a low cost randomized control trial to provide a clearer […]

BU Economics’ Jianjun Miao promoted to Full Professor

President Bob Brown and Provost Jean Morrison announced this week the promotion of 13 members of our Charles River Campus faculty to Full Professor at Boston University, including Jianjun Miao of the Department of Economics. Quoting from Provost Morrison’s statement, Through seminal scholarship, eye-opening exploration, and a passion for the transmission of knowledge, these exceptional […]

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 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 […]