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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.

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.
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.

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

Inaugural Review of Economic Studies North America Tour
Monday, October 25, 2021 - 10:00am - Monday, October 25, 2021 - 3:45pm
Special Event
Milena Djourelova (UPF), Elisa Macchi (Zurich), and Lukasz Rachel (LSE)
Social Learning with Heterogeneous Preferences
Monday, October 25, 2021 - 12:00pm - Monday, October 25, 2021 - 1:30pm
Micro Theory Lunch
Pedro Solti
University of Pennsylvania
No Econometrics Seminar (Please attend the REStud Tour Day)
Monday, October 25, 2021 - 4:30pm - Monday, October 25, 2021 - 6:00pm
Econometrics Seminar
State Dependence and Neighborhood Persistence
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 - 12:00pm - Tuesday, October 26, 2021 - 1:30pm
Empirical Micro Lunch
Jungsoo Yoo
University of Pennsylvania

News

Department of Economics Mourns the Passing of One of its most Distinguished Alumni, Thomas F. Cooley
October 11, 2021
It is with sadness that the Department of Economics notes the passing of one its most distinguished alumni, Thomas F. Cooley. Tom taught at Penn in the mid-1990’s where he inspired a large cohort of macro students that went on to become leaders of the profession themselves.
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/
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.
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.

Milena Djourelova (UPF), Elisa Macchi (Zurich), and Lukasz Rachel (LSE)

Pedro Solti

University of Pennsylvania

Jungsoo Yoo

University of Pennsylvania