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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.
IER: International Economic Review

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

The Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics

The Economics department relocated to the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics (PCPSE). The center houses the departments of Political Science and Economics.
Economics Day 2019 Highlights

Economics Day is our annual celebration to recognize outstanding achievements by undergraduate and graduate students and exemplary teaching by economics faculty.
2018-19 Job Market Candidates

Penn Ph.D. students seeking jobs during the 2018-19 academic year.
Letter from the Chair

Welcome to the Economics Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

News

Economics Senior David Wigglesworth Receives a Rose Undergraduate Research Award
May 2, 2019
Economics Senior David Wigglesworth's project under the direction of Professors Frank Diebold and Jere Behrman, “Crop Production and Climate Change: The Importance of Temperature Variability,” has been selected to receive a 2019 Rose Undergraduate Research Award.
Antonio Merlo, former Penn Economics professor and Department Chair named Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at NYU
March 7, 2019
Antonio Merlo, a distinguished political economist has been named the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of NYU’s Faculty of Arts and Science.
Juan Pablo Atal, Assistant Professor of Economics, was named one of the Axilrod Fellows for the Axilrod Term Fund in Health and Inequality at the School of Arts & Sciences
February 26, 2019
Richard A. Axilrod (WG’85) and Nancy M. Axilrod, Penn parents, have made a $2 million gift to establish the Axilrod Term Fund in Health and Inequality. The fund has enabled Penn Arts and Sciences to recruit three new faculty members who will help establish Penn as a worldwide center for the analysis of inequality and health, with a specific focus on the distribution of health outcomes and how this distribution is shaped by social policies.
A new book from economist Jeremy Greenwood looks at the effects of technological progress on home life.
January 31, 2019
Professor of Economics. Jeremy Greenwood’s new book “Evolving Households: The Imprint of Technology on Life” published in January 2019 by The MIT Press was excerpted and featured in an article in Penn Today How the appliance boom moved more women into the workforce.

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Philadelphia Federal Statistical Research Data Center

IER: International Economic Review

PIER: Penn Institute for Economic Research

The Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics

Economics Day 2019 Highlights

2018-19 Job Market Candidates

Letter from the Chair

Econometrics Seminar

Econometrics Seminar

Yulong Wang

Syracuse University

Econometrics Lunch

Econometrics Lunch

Chris Hansen

Chicago Booth

Econometrics Seminar

Econometrics Seminar

Dacheng Xiu

University of Chicago

Econometrics Seminar

Econometrics Seminar

Joshua Chan

Purdue

Economics Senior David Wigglesworth Receives a Rose Undergraduate Research Award

Antonio Merlo, former Penn Economics professor and Department Chair named Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at NYU

Juan Pablo Atal, Assistant Professor of Economics, was named one of the Axilrod Fellows for the Axilrod Term Fund in Health and Inequality at the School of Arts & Sciences

A new book from economist Jeremy Greenwood looks at the effects of technological progress on home life.