Welcome to our new Ph.D. cohort for 2020-21!
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Guido Imbens and Matthew Gentzkow, both Professors of Economics are new members of the National Academy of Sciences – one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Larry Goulder, the Shuzo Nishihara Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics receives the Atkinson Award for the paper "Impacts of a carbon tax across US household income groups: What are the equity-efficiency trade-offs?" This award recognizes the best paper published during the 3-year period 2018-2020 in the Journal of Public Economics
Nicholas Bloom is a professor of Economics and an expert on remote work. He advises big tech firms about their office return and says "CEOs are becoming increasingly nervous about setting return to office dates because they’ve seen if they keep setting a date, that gets messed up.
Petra Persson, Assistant Professor of Economics has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for her work on "Family Behavior, Health Technologies, and Government Policy: Research and Training".
Seminars and Events
PhD Research Showcase
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE)
The SITE 2022 Conference takes place this summer from June 30 - September 16 on the Stanford campus with sessions that cover a wide-range of economic topics. Its purpose is to advance economic science for the benefit of society and to support cutting-edge work of economic theorists within specialized areas of research.
SITE is accepting paper submissions!
