• Sadie T. M. Alexander, Ph.D., J.D., University of Pennsylvania, the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in economics in the United States, was named posthumously as one of the American Economics Association Distinguished Fellows in 2022.

  April 28, 2022

  Sadie T.M. Alexander, the first African-American to earn a Ph.D.

• The Phi Beta Kappa Society inducted sixteen Economics majors April

  April 15, 2022

  The Phi Beta Kappa Society inducted the following economics majors into the society which is 12.1% of all those awarded.

• The Department of Economics is excited to announce the donation of the Lawrence Robert Klein 1980 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Medal

  April 11, 2022

  The Department of Economics is excited to announce the donation of the Lawrence Robert Klein 1980 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Medal, which has been installed in a beautiful display case on the second floor of the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics

• 2022 Sociology Undergraduate Award for best paper submitted to a Sociology class was awarded to an Economics Dept. major, Ellen Manford

  March 31, 2022

  2022 Sociology Undergraduate Award Recipients - Congratulations to Ellen Manford, Economics Major, '22, who was awarded the best paper submitted to an undergraduate Sociology class, SOCI 122: Socio

• The 2022 Edition of "Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in the field of Economics and Finance" was just released.

  February 24, 2022

  The 2022 Edition of “Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in the field of Economics and Finance” was just released by Research.com at research.com/scientists-rankings/economics-and-finance.

• Economics undergraduate student Mira Potter-Schwartz and PhD student Xincheng Qiu honored as 2021-2022 Dean's Scholar

  January 31, 2022

  Honored as 2021-2022 Dean's Scholar from the College of Arts & Science and Graduate Division

• Wayne Gao given the 2021 Zellner Award by the Journal of Econometrics

  January 25, 2022

  The Journal of Econometrics awarded the 2021 Arnold Zellner Award for best theory paper published in 2019-2020 to NONPARAMETRIC IDENTIFICATION IN INDEX MODELS OF LINK INFORMATION by Wayne Gao

• Former Penn Economics graduate Nicolás Grau (PhD, 2014) has been nominated by Chilean President-Elect Gabriel Boric as the next Minister of the Economy

  January 24, 2022

  We are proud to announce that former Penn Economics graduate Nicolás Grau (PhD, 2014) has been nominated by Chilean President-Elect Gabriel Boric as the next Minister of the Economy

• 2021 Etienne van de Walle Paper Prize

  December 1, 2021

  Minji Bang won the 2021 Etienne van de Walle Prize that is given biennially for the best graduate student paper in demography...

• Frank Diebold delivered the IAAE Lecture, titled "Reduced-Form vs Structural Perspectives on Melting Arctic Sea Ice,"

  November 22, 2021

  Frank Diebold delivered the IAAE Lecture, titled "Reduced-Form vs Structural Perspectives on Melting Arctic Sea Ice," at the International Association for Applied Econometrics...