04/12/2023 - The Economics Department is proud to announce Matthew Gentzkow as the Spring 2023 David Kinley Lecturer. Dr. Gentzkow will present "Social Media and Polarization". The lecture will take place...
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02/01/2023 - The workshop "Causal Inference: Current Trends and the Future of Research" will be held on the 4th-5th of May 2023, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. The workshop is...
01/25/2023 - The workshop "HDMetrics: Big Data, High-Dimensional Methods, and Machine Learning" will be held on the 21st-22nd of April 2023, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. The...
10/24/2022 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — By broadening access to higher education in their local geographic area, regional public universities increase the economic and social mobility of the residents in their counties,...
10/20/2022 - Assistant Professor, Eliza Forsythe of the School of Labor & Employment Relations and Department of Economics will appear before the House of Lords of the United Kingdom on Tuesday, October 25th...
09/07/2022 - This fall, we had 76 students begin their study in the MSPE Program. This class is represented by 12 different countries: Belarus, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea,...
04/06/2022 - The Seventh Circuit Bar Association was founded in 1951. But it had never had a woman president before me, in 2001. If you go up to the ceremonial courtroom in the Dirksen Center, there’s a wall of...
04/05/2022 - A typical day for Matthew Doppelt (BA, ’11, economics) is hard to come by as assistant director for international scouting for the Los Angeles Dodgers. His home base is in Pheonix, Ariz., where he...
04/05/2022 - Regional economies are routinely subject to the whims of the business cycle that can lead to job losses and lower incomes for residents when a recession hits or an industry declines. But new research...
12/07/2021 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign senior Boming Yang, of Beijing, was named a Schwarzman Scholar, one of 151 recipients selected from an...
10/22/2021 - 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...
09/23/2021 - 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...
09/15/2021 - 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...
07/16/2021 - With a graduate degree in economics, Carla Tighe Murray knows how hard school can be. With a family, she also knows how challenging caregiving can be. That’s why she’s giving support to graduate...
06/01/2021 - Congratulations to our award recipients. Paul W. Boltz Fellowship This award is given to advanced students who have demonstrated research output of high quality. This year's...
