University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign senior Boming Yang, of Beijing, was named a Schwarzman Scholar, one of 151 recipients selected from an international pool of 3,000 applicants. The program annually fully funds a class consisting of 40% U.S. students, 20% from China and Taiwan, and 40% from the rest of the world.
Schwarzman Scholars seek a...
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Fields of Concentration: Political Economy, Industrial Organization
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Job Market Paper: Dust Storms and House Prices
Fields of Concentration: Applied Microeconomics, Environmental Economics, Urban Economics, Public Economics
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Dan Bernhardt
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Fields of Concentration: Urban Economics, Transportation Economics, Real Estate Economics
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David Y. Albouy
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Minchul Shin
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Job Market Paper: Effects of e-commerce on local labor markets
Fields of Concentration: Labor Economics, Industrial Organization, Economics of Innovation
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Eliza Forsythe
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Job Market Paper: Crime and (Monetary) Sanctions
Fields of Concentration: Labor Economics, Law and Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Political Economy
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Rebecca Thornton
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Alexander Bartik
Monica Gillis
Job Market Paper: Sea, Sand, and Storms: Tourism and Costal Resiliency in Mexico
Fields of Concentration: Development, Environmental, Public
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Adam Osman
Tatyana Deryugina
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Job Market Paper: Concealed Carry Laws and Fatal Police Encounters
Fields of Concentration: Economics of Crime, Applied Microeconomics , Public Economics
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Rebecca Thornton
David Albouy
Benjamin Marx
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Fields of Concentration: Econometrics
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Xiaofeng Shao
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Job Market Paper: Designing Gender Equity: Evidence from Hiring Practices and Committees
Fields of Concentration: Labor Economics, Public Economics, Urban Economics
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David Albouy
Dan Bernhardt
Alexander Bartik
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Job Market Paper: The Downstream Channel of Financial Constraints and the Amplification of Aggregate Downturns
Fields of Concentration: Corporate Finance , Financial Economics
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Dan Bernhardt
Heitor Almeida
Charles Kahn
Vinicios P. Sant'Anna
Job Market Paper: Send Them Back? The Real Estate Consequences of Repatriations
Fields of Concentration: Economic History, International Economics, Immigration Economics, Real Estate
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Dan Bernhardt
Kris Mitchener
Greg Howard
Lucas Squarize Chagas
Job Market Paper: International Trade and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Brazil
Fields of Concentration: Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics, International Trade, Political Economy
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Dan Bernhardt
Alexander Bartik
Greg Howard
Prakrati Thakur
Job Market Paper: Welfare Effects of International Trade in Waste
Fields of Concentration: International Trade, Environmental Economics, Applied Econometrics
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George Deltas
Dan Bernhardt
Tatyana Deryugina
Greg Howard
Irina Valenzuela
Job Market Paper: Do Unannounced Visits to Schools Affect Student Performance? Evidence from a Large-scale Monitoring System in Peru
Fields of Concentration: Education, Political Economy, Gender and Development
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Elizabeth Powers
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Mark Borgschulte
The President’s Commission on White House Fellows announced the appointment of the 2021-2022 class of White House Fellows, the most diverse class in the history of the program. The prestigious White House Fellowship program embeds professionals from diverse backgrounds for a year of working as a full-time, paid fellow for White House staff, Cabinet Secretaries, and other senior government...
The UIUC Federal Statistical Research Center, operated by the Department of Economics out of David Kinley Hall, provides restricted-use microdata from various government agencies to researchers. A new Federal Statistical Research Data Center at the University of Illinois is giving researchers on campus a new opportunity to examine economic and other social issues with data that is not...
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- This fall, 86 new students entered the MSPE Program. This class is represented by 10 different countries (3 Brazil, 70 China, 1 Egypt, 1 Honduras, 2 India, 1 Indonesia, 2 Saudi Arabia, 1 South Korea, 1 Thailand, and 4 USA). These students joined the 45 continuing students in the MSPE Program.
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