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 […]