PhD student Sophie Li wins IPUMS research award
Sophie Li, a PhD student in the Economics Department, was awarded the IPUMS Excellence in Research Award for her work on gender dynamics in the US Postal Service. The IPUMS mission of democratizing data demands that we increase the representation of scholars from groups that are systemically excluded in research spaces. This award is an opportunity to highlight […]
2024 Abdala Fieldwork Grants winners announced
The Institute for Economic Development in the Department of Economics announces the recipients of the 2024 Abdala fieldwork research grants, which are made possible by a generous gift from alumnus Manuel Abdala: Laura Aquino & John Hassett Mexican Gender Parity Rules and the Changing Faces of Women’s Executive Power Anastasiia Arbuzova Gendered Differences in Mobility […]
Economics students accepted into University of Chicago Summer Programming
Congratulations to Economics PhD student Ayush Gupta, who will attend this year’s Price Theory Summer Camp, an intensive one-week program hosted by The University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute for Economics with the goal of introducing Economics PhDs to price theory. An additional congratulations to undergraduate Economics student Zifan Huang, who is among a 45-student cohort accepted to this […]
2016 Rosenstein-Rodan Prize awarded to Mesay Gebresilasse
The Institute for Economic Development awards the Rosenstein-Rodan Prize for the best original research on development economics or a related discipline among PhD students. This year there was an extraordinarily large number of high quality submissions, making the problem of selection particularly difficult. The papers were read and evaluated by a committee of six IED […]
PhD Student’s Summer Class Talks Poverty
Current Ph.D. student Lee Tucker is teaching a summer course called Economics of Poverty and Discrimination in the United States. An article in BU Today featured Tucker’s fascinating course on this complex topic, which includes discussions on gender, race, age, and more. Tucker is inspiring his students to bring their questions around poverty into their […]
PhD Student Bitsy Perlman is Finalist in GRS 3MT
The Graduate School held the preliminary rounds for the first BU 3 Minute Thesis competition and our own Bitsy Perlman (PhD ’16) is a finalist. No, 3 Minute Thesis competition doesn’t mean it takes three minutes to write the thesis, though certainly many PhD students are wishing that was feasible. Instead, it means presenting the […]
PhD Student Achievements: Congrats to Matt, Francois, and Sara!
We are excited to announce these wonderful recent achievements of 3 of our PhD students here at BU Econ! 1. Matthew Johnson received a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Disability Policy Research from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The 1-year fellowship will support Johnson’s research projects on workplace safety and health. IThe fellowship includes invitations to […]
Call For Papers: 2015 Rosenstein-Rodan Essay Prize
The Institute for Economic Development is pleased to announce the call for the 2015 Rosenstein-Rodan Essay submissions. In memory of Professor Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, a prize of $1500 will be awarded to the best research paper in development economics submitted by a graduate student at Boston University. Eligibility: Any currently enrolled Economics PhD student who has […]
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 William Johnson appointed 2014-15 Growth Lab Fellow
PhD student William Johnson has been invited to join Harvard University’s Center for International Development as a Growth Lab Fellow for the 2014-15 academic year. This appointment is intended to encourage collaboration between Johnson, other Growth Lab Fellows, and the staff of the Center for International Development.