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The Economics Department, located in the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences, is ranked among the top ten in the U.S. Its faculty, productive and research-oriented, is committed to the advancement of economic science.

Philadelphia Federal Statistical Research Data Center

Through the Philadelphia FSRDC, faculty and students affiliated with consortium institutions are able to conduct statistical analysis of a wide range of non-public microdata.
PIER: Penn Institute for Economic Research

PIER was established in 1993 to create an environment that will enhance the role of Penn as one of the leading institutions for the study of economics.
IER: International Economic Review

The International Economic Review was established in 1960 to provide a forum for modern quantitative economics.

LATEST COVID-19 ECONOMICS RESEARCH

Cutting Edge Research on COVID-19 Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Economics Faculty.
Letter from the Chair

Welcome to the Economics Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
Faculty Books

Recently published books by Penn Economics faculty
Faculty Journal Articles

Recent faculty journal articles from the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Events

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Tuesday, September 7, 2021 - 4:00pm - Tuesday, September 7, 2021 - 5:30pm
Micro Theory Seminar
Kevin He
University of Pennsylvania
Data Disciplining Theory: Arctic Sea Ice Projections, 1980-2100
Monday, September 13, 2021 - 12:00pm - Monday, September 13, 2021 - 1:30pm
Econometrics Lunch
Frank Diebold
University of Pennsylvania
Econometrics Seminar
Monday, September 13, 2021 - 4:30pm - Monday, September 13, 2021 - 6:00pm
Econometrics Seminar
Daniel Lewis
Federal Reserve Bank NY Visiting Penn
Money Macro Seminar
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 - 4:00pm - Wednesday, September 15, 2021 - 5:30pm
Money Macro Seminar
Jennifer La’O
Columbia University

News

Recent Graduate Alejandro Sánchez wins Best Student Paper at the IAAE Conference 2021
July 15, 2021
2021 Ph.D. graduate Alejandro Sánchez was co-winner of the best student paper award for his paper "Spillovers, homophily, and selection into treatment: The Network Propensity Score" at the International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE) Conference 2021.
Krishna Dasaratha, Kevin He, and Wayne Gao Win Awards at ACM EC 2021
July 15, 2021
Several faculty members and affiliates of Penn Economics have won awards at the 2021 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation: https://ec21.sigecom.org/program/awards/
Professor Emeritus Kenneth Wolpin is the 2021 recipient of the Jacob Mincer Award
June 16, 2021
Professor Kenneth I. Wolpin, who spent 20 years at Penn as the Annenberg Professor of Social Sciences and is now Professor Emeritus in the economics department, is the 2021 recipient of the prestigious Jacob Mincer Award for lifetime contributions to the field of labor economics.
Economics Student Noa Ortiz-Langleben's paper featured in Equilibria
May 27, 2021
Economics student Noa Ortiz-Langleben's paper ‘Universities and Economic Growth in the United States’ has been featured in the 2021 edition of Equilibria: Duke Economics Review.

Kevin He

University of Pennsylvania

Frank Diebold

University of Pennsylvania

Daniel Lewis

Federal Reserve Bank NY Visiting Penn

Jennifer La’O

Columbia University