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Meet the Advising Team

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The Economics Advising Team consists of the Director of Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Miron), the Undergraduate Program Coordinator (Justine Johnson), and five Lecturer/Advisors (Thomas Baranga, Greg Bruich, Kiran Gajwani, Anne Le Brun, Andrés Maggi). We...

Congratulations to Faculty Advisor Scott Kominers for Winning a Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising!

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"I always try to help my students become themselves – their true selves, their maximal selves, the most awesome versions of themselves they can possibly be." - Scott Kominers, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows and Lecturer, Department of Economics...

Elhanan Helpman

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Elhanan Helpman is the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard University. He holds a B.A. degree in Economics and Statistics from Tel Aviv University, an M.A. degree in Economics from the same institution, and a Ph.D. degree in...

Seymour E. & Ruth B. Harris Lecture, Spring 2020

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Jesse Shapiro (Brown University) "Transparency and Communication in Scientific Research"Contact Name: Aden GideonContact e-mail: agideon@fas.harvard.eduContact phone: 617-496-5464

Eric Maskin to Deliver 2018 Ding Shum Lecture

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Hosted by the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications

Congratulations to Professor Michael Kremer, Winner of the 2018 Boris Mints Institute Prize

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Since 2017, the Boris Mints Institute at Tel Aviv University awards one prize annually "to an exceptional individual who has devoted his/her research and academic life to the solution of a strategic global challenge." Professor Kremer lectured on May 3 as...

Congratulations to Kiran Gajwani for Winning the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize!

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Kiran was named among three honorees for the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prizes. From Harvard Magazine: "WOLCOTT PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY Alison Simmons presented three honorees with the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prizes. Nominated by the society’s undergraduate...

EC 3003 Graduate Student Workshop in Econometrics

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Ashesh Rambachan (Harvard University) "Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data" Visiting Admit Days lecture Course site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/101646 Contact: Eric Unverzagt ( eunverz@fas.harvard.edu)

De La Salle University Awards Honorary Doctorate to Eric Maskin

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Nobel Laureate in Economics Professor Eric Maskin was conferred an honorary doctorate in Economic Sciences by DLSU. Following the conferment, Dr. Maskin delivered a lecture at the Teresa Yuchengco Auditorium, entitled “Why global markets have failed to...

EC 3003 Graduate Student Workshop in Econometrics

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Lihua Lei (Stanford University, Statistics) "Double-Robust Two-Way-Fixed-Effects Regression For Panel Data" Zoom lecture (Link on course site) Course site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/91647 Contact: Eric Unverzagt ( eunverz@fas.harvard.edu)

Seminar in Econometrics

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Harvard Harris Lecture this week. No meeting of the Seminar in Econometrics. Course site: https://economics.harvard.edu/seminars/metrics Contact: Eric Unverzagt, eunverz@fas.harvard.edu Metrics Econ Seminar List: https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman...

New Changes in the Harvard Undergraduate Economics Program

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A brief update for undergraduate economics concentrators... Numbering over 600 concentrators during the 2014-15 academic year, the undergraduate economics program continues to be the largest concentration at Harvard. We work continually to create an...