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The American Economic Association Honors Emmanuel Farhi with Tribute Video

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The American Economic Association honored Emmanuel Farhi earlier this week with a video tribute, created in conjunction with the Department of Economics.

American Finance Association Selects Professor Oliver Hart as New Fellow

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The American Finance Association has announced the selection of Oliver Hart as a member of the AFA Society of Fellows for 2016. The AFA Society of Fellows recognizes members who have made significant contributions to the field of finance. One new Fellow...

Professor Claudia Goldin Addresses the American Economic Association on the Gender Wage Gap

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Harvard Professor Claudia Goldin, president of the American Economic Association, addressed the AEA annual meeting in Philadelphia in early January on how to fix the gender wage gap. "In her presidential address at the AEA annual meeting last week...

American Economic Association Awards Clark Medal to Professor Raj Chetty

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The American Economic Association has named Harvard Economics Professor Raj Chetty as recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal for 2013. The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded to that American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the...

Professor Martin Weitzman Honored by Agricultural & Applied Economics Association with 2013 John Kenneth Galbraith Award

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Martin Weitzman was awarded the 2013 John Kenneth Galbraith Award of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association “in recognition of breakthrough discoveries in economics and outstanding contributions to humanity through leadership, research, and...

ECON 3013: Graduate Student Workshop in Contracts and Organizations

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Amy Finlayson (Associate Director, Campus Growth & Redevelopment, Harvard Campus Services) talks about the Pritzker Construction Project. Workshop Website Contact: Ursula Ferraro uferraro@fas.harvard.edu Directions to Littauer

Harvard Economics Department Welcomes Melissa Dell as Associate of the Department of Economics

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(August 2, 2012) Melissa Dell has joined the Harvard University Department of Economics as an associate of the department. She is also a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University for the next two years. Her appointment as Assistant...

ECON 3008: Graduate Student Workshop in International Economics

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Erik Beyer (Harvard) "Associative Memory Formation in Endogenous Production Networks" Shao-Yu Jheng (Harvard) "Leapfrogging like South Korea" Workshop Website Contact: Polina Barker / polinabarker@fas.harvard.edu Directions to Littauer Center

Raj Chetty To Deliver the Richard T. Ely Lecture at the American Economic Association

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Professor Raj Chetty has been named the Richard T. Ely Lecturer at The American Economics Association Annual meeting to be held in Boston on Saturday, January 3, 2015. Professor Chetty will deliver the Richard T. Ely Lecture on "Behavioral Economics and...

Economic History Association Awards Allan Nevins Prize to Graduate James Feigenbaum

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James Feigenbaum recently completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University. In his dissertation, "Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality: Essays in Historical Labor Economics," Feigenbaum estimates the effects of economic downturns on...

Harvard Economics Department Welcomes Nathaniel Hendren as Associate of the Department of Economics

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(August 2, 2012) Nathaniel Hendren has joined the Harvard University Department of Economics as an associate of the department. Next year he will be a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His appointment as Assistant Professor...

Professor Stefanie Stantcheva Awarded the 2025 Clark Medal from the American Economic Association

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Stantcheva studies taxation of firms and individuals, as well as how attitudes are formed towards economic policies. She uses large-scale social economics surveys and experiments in her recent work to explore attitudes towards taxation, trade, immigration...