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Feb 25, 2009 :: Sloan Research Fellowship awarded to Michele Tertilt.
Assistant Professor Michele Tertilt is one of three Stanford scholars awarded a two-year Sloan Research Fellowship. The Sloan Research Fellowships support the work of exceptional young researchers early in their academic careers. Michele's research focuses on family economics, consumer credit, growth and development, and demography. The Economics department congratulates Michele on the prestigious fellowship.
Aug 15, 2011 :: Congratulations to recent graduates Matthew Cook and Gregory Hirshman!
Recent graduates Matthew Cook and Gregory Hirshman are 2 of four finalists at the annual EconSources.com Best Undergraduate Paper Competition. Matthew Cook submitted his honors thesis entitled: "Voting With Bidirectional Elimination" and Gregory Hirshman's honors thesis title was: " Raising Taxes to Balance the Budget: How Effects on Output and Labor Supply complicate the Issue". The final selection of the best paper will take place on Saturday, October 22nd, at the annual IAES http://www.iaes.org/index.htm conference in Washington, D.C.
May 02, 2011 :: Professor Monika Piazzesi elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences selected 212 individuals from academia, business, public affairs, humanities and arts to become Fellows of the Academy in 2011. This appointment acknowledges Monika as a leader in academia. Monika was one of 9 economists to be selected as a new Fellow to the academy and one of 8 scholars at Stanford University. http://www.amacad.org/news/pressReleaseContent.aspx?i=133
Dec 17, 2010 :: Professor Matthew Harding awarded major grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Matthew Harding and his co-PI, Michael Frakes of Harvard University were awarded a major grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Public Health Law Research (PHLR) program. The PIs will investigate whether statutory rape laws affect the Incidence of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. While states have passed statutory rape laws for a variety of reasons, many of them have viewed these laws, in part, as a mechanism to reduce rates of teenage pregnancy. This project will explore whether statutory rape laws, and the way in which they are enforced, contribute to a reduction in both teenage pregnancy rates and rates of various sexually transmitted diseases (STD). The researchers will evaluate the general impact of statutory rape laws while appropriately accounting for the different ways in which states structure their statutory rape provisions.
Sep 30, 2010 :: Professor Kalina Manova awarded grants from The London School of Economics International Growth Centre and The Freeman Spogli Institute.
The International Growth Centre at the London School of Economics and the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University have awarded Kalina Manova two grants totaling $40,000. The IGC grant is awarded to young scholars who conduct cutting-edge research of relevance to policy makers in developing countries. The FSI grant is awarded to Stanford faculty whose research promotes Chinese studies on campus. Both grants will support Kalina's work on firms' exporting and FDI decisions using rich firm-level data from China.
Dec 17, 2009 :: Professor B. Douglas Bernheim to give keynote addresses.
B. Douglas Bernheim will deliver keynote addresses at two international conferences held during the summer of 2010. The conferences include MBEES III (the Maastricht Behavioral and Experimental Economics Symposium) held in the Netherlands on June 11, 2010, and the CESifo Venice Summer Institute conference on "Behavioural Welfare Economics" held in Italy on July 21-22, 2010.
Professor B. Douglas Bernheim wins Economic Inquiry Best Article Award Professors B. Douglas Bernheim, Patrick Bayer (Duke University), and Karl Scholz (University of Wisconsin) have won Economic Inquiry's 2009 Best Article Award for "The Effects of Financial Education in the Workplace: Evidence from a Survey of Employers," which appeared in the October 2009 issue. The study's central finding is that both participation in and contributions to voluntary savings plans are significantly higher when employers offer retirement seminars. Professor Bayer and Professor Scholz are both former Stanford graduate students.