Special PhD Stipend for MA Graduates awarded to Youming Liu
Starting this year, the Economics Department awards a summer stipend to a graduate of our MA program who enters our PhD program. The first recipient of this award is Youming Liu. Youming joined the MA program after receiving an undergraduate degree in finance in China. He earned a stellar academic record, including numerous courses in […]
BU Economics PhD students’ recent scholarships & awards
Alessandro Casini received one of three “B. Stringher” Scholarship from the Bank of Italy. In addition, his undergraduate thesis has been awarded the “Angelo Costa” prize and will be published in the journal Rivista di Politica Economica. This is the main Italian economic journal, which each year publishes the five best undergraduate theses in Economics. […]
BU Economics PhD students’ fellowship activity
The Department of Economics is proud to report on fellowships recently awarded to our PhD students. Richard Baker received a Dissertation Fellowship from the Economic History Association for the 2013-14 academic year. See http://eh.net/eha/grants-and-fellowships/ for details on the program. Jasmina Hasanhodzic received an NBER Pre-Doctoral Fellowship on the Economics of an Aging Workforce for the […]
BU Economics PhD student selected to attend WEAI’s 2014 Graduate Student Dissertation Workshop
Michael Gechter was one of 16 Ph.D. students selected to participate in WEAI’s 2014 Graduate Student Dissertation Workshop. This hands-on experience in job-market paper presentation and interviewing skills will be held in conjunction with WEAI’s 89th Annual Conference, June 27 to July 1, 2014, at the Grand Hyatt Denver. The selection committee chose from among […]
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 […]