Installation of Limor Golan as the Laurence H. Meyer Professor of Economics

The ranks of American workers are thinning—often because people aged out of the workforce, or never entered it. Their absence could impede the economy’s ability to grow, and make for a less prosperous future.

While most U.S. workers are putting in fewer hours, men in the top 10% of earners cut back their time on the job the most, according to a new study

The supply of workers is at pre-pandemic levels, but demand is far greater

Dain Lee, Jinhyeok Park, and Yongseok Shin quoted in Bloomberg article on January 9, 2023.

The Department of Economics congratulates Phil Dybvig, the Boatmen's Bancshares Professor of Banking and Finance in the Olin School of Business and Professor of Economics (by courtesy) in Arts & Sciences, on the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics he shared with Ben Bernanke and Doug Diamond.

Phil has been a generous colleague and an especially supportive mentor for our PhD students. We are all very proud of his accomplishments.

Yongs Shin speaks to NPR's Marketplace on September 21, 2022.

Economist Andrew Jordan uses data analytics to uncover potential bias in the criminal justice system by studying the decisions made by courts, police, and prosecutors.

Yongs Shin was quoted in the Wall Street Journal on July 25, 2022.

This year’s Charles Leven Memorial Prize for the best second year paper has been awarded to...

If you were unable to join the event at the Weidenbaum Center, you can watch the event recording at the link provided below:
Tale of Two Subsidies: Why the Afghan army did not fight and the Ukrainian army did.

Ian Fillmore quoted in the New York Times on January 14, 2022.