Economics News

Maxwell School Announces Montonna Professor, Dean’s Award Recipients

September 23, 2021
Osamah F. Khalil, associate professor of history and chair of the undergraduate program in international relations, was recently awarded the Dr. Ralph E. Montonna Endowed Professorship for the Teaching and Education of Undergraduates.

See related: Awards & Honors, Giving, Promotions & Appointments

Rosenthal paper on effects of mortgage payment burden on underwater homeowners published in REE

August 28, 2021

See related: Housing

Calculating the Cost of a 'Sound Basic Education' in New York City

August 17, 2021

WP 172 Welfare Reform and Children’s Health

August 11, 2021

See related: Child & Elder Care, Children, Adolescents, Health Policy

WP 187 Bayesian Spatial Bivariate Panel Probit Estimation

August 11, 2021
This paper formulates and analyzes Bayesian model variants for the analysis of systems of spatial panel data with binary dependent variables.

WP 192 How Hospital Value Based Purchasing is a Game of Chance

August 11, 2021

WP 205 Labor Unions and Occupational Safety: Event-Study Analysis Using Union Elections

August 11, 2021

WP 225 Density Deconvolution with Laplace Errors and Unknown Variance

August 10, 2021
The authors consider density deconvolution with zero-mean Laplace noise in the context of an error component regression model.

WP 226 Network Competition and Team Chemistry in the NBA

August 10, 2021
The authors consider a heterogeneous social interaction model where agents interact with peers within their own network and agents across other networks.

Engelhardt quoted in HousingWire article on pandemic, housing payments

August 6, 2021

See related: COVID-19, Housing, United States

Baltagi article on forecasting with unbalanced panel data published in Journal of Forecasting

August 5, 2021

Han, Schwartz paper on fast food proximity and childhood obesity published in RSUE

August 5, 2021

See related: Housing, Nutrition, Parenting & Family

Baltagi paper on shifts in time trend panel data published in Econometric Review

August 5, 2021

Baltagi paper on estimating high dimensional factor models published in Journal of Econometrics

August 4, 2021

Shi, Zhu paper on racial bias in school discipline published in EdWorkingPapers

August 4, 2021

See related: Education

Flores-Lagunes comments on Northeast labor gains in Business Insider

July 11, 2021
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, professor of economics, says that "people are feeling more comfortable going to restaurants, traveling, and right now in the Northeast, it's a good time to travel because it's not as cold."

See related: COVID-19, Health Policy, Labor, United States

Lovely talks to Bloomberg about Beijing relations with Europe, US

July 9, 2021
Mary Lovely, professor of economics, discussed Beijing relations with Europe and the U.S. on 'Bloomberg Markets: China Open.' 

See related: China, Europe, International Affairs, United States

Jales study on the fertility effects of Korean baby bonus program published in Jour of Asian Econ

June 25, 2021

See related: East Asia

Rosenthal paper on commercial real estate, urban spatial structure, and COVID-19 published in JUE

June 24, 2021

See related: COVID-19

Schwartz quoted in EdSurge article on challenges of student mobility

June 23, 2021
"It’s not like kids are moving from Boston to Chicago to LA and then back again,” says Amy Ellen Schwartz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs. "Kids for whom housing instability is a problem, many of them are moving around in the same urban area."

See related: COVID-19, Health Policy, U.S. Education, United States

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