Economics News
Carlos Lamarche presented “A Panel Quantile Approach to Attrition Bias in Big Data: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment” at the 2016 Latin American Econometric Society Meeting in Medellin, Colombia, on November 11th. The paper is co-authored with M. Harding (University of California at Irvine).
Gail Hoyt (with Sam Allgood and KimMarie McGoldrick )presented “The Role of Teaching and Teacher Training in the Hiring and Promotion of Ph.D. Economists,” presented at the annual meetings of the Southern Economic Association in Washington, DC, November 20, 2016.
Gail Hoyt conducted the workshop “The Interactive and Engaging College Lecture,” for new faculty members and “The Effective Graduate Student Instructor,” workshop conducted for graduate student teaching assistants at San Diego State University on September 23, 2016.
Alejandro Dellachiesa (with Myint A.P., (Bates ‘14)) paper "Trade Openness and the Changing Water Polluting Intensity Patterns of ‘Dirty’ and ‘Clean’ Industrial Sectors." recently appeared in Ecological Economics.
David Agrawal was a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from November 2 to 4.
Congratulations to Hao Guo, a 5th year Phd student, who has won this year's Mullineaux award. The Mullineaux award is given annually to the outstanding PhD student in the Gatton College. A formal presentation of the award will be made at the December faculty meeting. Hao's dissertation is "Three Essays on the Heterogeneous Effects of Trade". His co-chairs are Jenny Minier and Josh Ederington.
Congratulations to Hao Guo, a 5th year Phd student, who has won this year's Mullineaux award. The Mullineaux award is given annually to the outstanding PhD student in the Gatton College. A formal presentation of the award will be made at the December faculty meeting. Hao's dissertation is "Three Essays on the Heterogeneous Effects of Trade". His co-chairs are Jenny Minier and Josh Ederington.
The Department of Economics with Chris Bollinger, President-elect of the Kentucky Economics Association (KEA) and program organizer, hosted the Kentucky Economic Association annual meetings . Over 120 economists from all over the state attended and participated in the event, which consisted of 15 concurrent sessions. The KEA honored Eugenia Toma with the “Kentucky Distinguished Economists for 2016.” Her presentation, “Education in Kentucky: Progress and Challenges” highlighted both her research, and how a researchers at the University of Kentucky are working on important challenges to t
Steven Lugauer presented his paper "Fertility is a Leading Economic Indicator" on October 10th at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Carlos Lamarche presented “A Panel Quantile Approach to Attrition Bias in Big Data: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment” at the 2016 Midwest Econometrics Group Meeting at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on October 21st. The paper is co-authored with M. Harding (University of California Irvine).