Department News

Andrea Velásquez is a 2023-2024 awardee of The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. Each year, The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society awards a diverse range of interdisciplinary faculty research projects that address critical issues. Learn more about the 13 selected for 2023-24: https://neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/news/neubauer-collegium-announces-new-research-projects-for-2023-24 .

Santiago Saavedra, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, presented at the 7th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings . At this conference, Nobel Economic Laureates participate and meet the next generation of leading young economists from all around the world.

The 2022 DABE/UCD Econometrics Award has been awarded to two undergraduate students, Yuxin Cai and Quynh Hoang. The annual Award was established by the Denver Association of Business Economists (DABE) and the CU Denver Economics Department to recognize up to two undergraduate students who have demonstrated "extraordinary effort and marked...

The 2021 DABE/UCD Econometrics Award has been awarded to two undergraduate students, Yue Yu and Cyril Waymel. The annual Award was established by the Denver Association of Business Economists (DABE) and the CU Denver Economics Department to recognize up to two undergraduate students who have demonstrated "extraordinary effort and marked...

The inaugural 2020 DABE/UCD Econometrics Award has been awarded to two undergraduate students, Xiao Wang and Ismael Bosch-Bello. The annual Award was established by the Denver Association of Business Economists (DABE) and the CU Denver Economics Department to recognize up to two undergraduate students who have demonstrated "extraordinary effort and...

The Denver Association of Business Economists (DABE) and CU Denver's Economics Department are collaborating to create a scholarship that will recognize the outstanding performance of undergraduate students in econometrics classes (ECON 4811 and ECON 4812). Frequency: up to two students per year Amount: $500 per recipient to spend on academic...

Chloe East and Andrea Velasquez's paper has been cited in The Economist article "How immigration-law enforcement can affect high-skilled American women."

Laura Argys and Saul Hoffman as editors of "Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy"

Chloe East, Assistant Professor of Economics, received a highly-competitive NIH grant to study the long run and multigenerational effects of safety net programs on individuals' health and economic well-being. The 5-year grant will support research that will expand the understanding of the potential benefits of these programs (e.g. Medicaid and...

Recent appearances by our faculty in the national and local news.