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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.

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.
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.

LATEST COVID-19 ECONOMICS RESEARCH

Cutting Edge Research on COVID-19 Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Economics Faculty.
2020-21 Job Market Candidates

Penn Ph.D. students seeking jobs during the 2020-21 academic year.
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

Inference by Stochastic Optimization: A Free-Lunch Bootstrap
Monday, March 8, 2021 - 4:30pm - Monday, March 8, 2021 - 5:30pm
Econometrics Seminar
Jean-Jacques Forneron
Boston University
Understanding Gender Gaps and the Child Penalty: Job Flexibility and Household Labor Supply
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 - 12:00pm - Tuesday, March 9, 2021 - 1:00pm
Empirical Micro Lunch
Minji Bang
University of Pennsylvania
Econometrics Lunch
Monday, March 15, 2021 - 12:00pm - Monday, March 15, 2021 - 1:00pm
Econometrics Lunch
Boyuan Zhang
University of Pennsylvania
Micro Theory Lunch
Monday, March 15, 2021 - 12:00pm - Monday, March 15, 2021 - 1:00pm
Micro Theory Lunch
Cuimin Ba
University of Pennsylvania

News

Economics Professor Jere Behrman included in “Highly Cited Researchers"
March 6, 2021
Economics Professor Jere Behrman, W.R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics and Sociology, Is included in “Highly Cited Researchers (h>100) according to their Google Scholar Citations public profiles”
Aislinn Bohren's paper "The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence" won the 2020 Exeter Prize
February 1, 2021
Aislinn Bohren's paper "The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence" (with Alex Imas and Michael Rosenberg, AER 2019 won the 2020 Exeter Prize for the best paper published in the previous calendar year in a peer-reviewed journal in the fields of Experimental Economics, Behavioural Economics and Decision Theory.
Professor Frank Diebold's 60 Second Lecture
October 1, 2020
Economics Professor, Frank Diebold presented Entering the Pandemic: The Joint Progression of COVID-19 and Economic Growth in the U.S. for the University's 60 Second Lecture Series.
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Dirk Krueger Elected Fellows to the Econometric Society
September 28, 2020
The Econometric Society has just announced that Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Graduate Chair and Professor of Economics, and Dirk Krueger, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and Editor of the International Economic Review, were elected fellows of the Econometric Society.

Jean-Jacques Forneron

Boston University

Minji Bang

University of Pennsylvania

Boyuan Zhang

University of Pennsylvania

Cuimin Ba

University of Pennsylvania