• 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...

• A talented team of Penn undergraduates won second place (out of 74 teams) in the 18th College Fed Challenge

  November 21, 2021

  A talented team of Penn undergraduates won second place (out of 74 teams) in the 18th College Fed Challenge, a national competition held annually by the Federal Reserve Board.

• 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. 

• 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.

• Spencer Kersh Presented his Thesis at Georgetown’s Carroll Round 20 conference

  April 22, 2021

  Spencer Kersh Presented his Thesis: “Housing Externalities and Qualified Opportunity Zones: The Impact on Housing Prices of Federal Economic Development Programs” at Georgetown’s Carroll Round 20 conference.