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News

Research by UCLA Professor Martha Bailey featured in CBS News

October 27, 2025

Research on the first federally-funded family-planning programs…

UCLA Professor Martha Bailey Interviewed on the Financial Times Podcast

October 12, 2025

Sarah O’Connor from the Financial Times interviewed Martha…

Alumnus Spotlight: Terry Kramer ’82 – Supporting UCLA

October 7, 2025

UCLA Economics Alumnus, Terry Kramer ’82, and member of the…

UCLA Professor Till von Wachter and the California Policy Lab awarded a $5.95M grant from Conrad N Hilton Foundation

September 15, 2025

The Conrad N Hilton Foundation has awarded a $5.95 million grant…

Research Spotlight

How a Historic Corporate Tax Cut Reshaped the U.S. Economy

September 2, 2025

By Patrick Kennedy In a sweeping one-time test of corporate tax policy, UCLA economist Patrick Kenne …
Is International Trade Draining Our Water?

July 7, 2025

By Levi Crews Levi Crews It’s an all-too-familiar headline: “In the midst of drought, California far …

Alumni Interviews

Greg Passani

Greg Passani UCLA alumnus Greg Passani’s foray into the investment banking industry was anything but …
Michael Powell

Michael Powell Many of us Bruins reminisce on the moment we decided to come to UCLA. For Dr. Michael …

Featured Faculty

Recent Publications

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Bottom-Up Markup Fluctuations

Ariel T Burstein and others

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage

Jonathan Vogel

Journal of Political Economy

Selecting Penalty Parameters of High-Dimensional M-Estimators Using Bootstrapping after Cross Validation

Denis Chetverikov and Jesper Riis-Vestergaard Sørensen

Events

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November 6, 2025

Daehyun Kim (UCLA)
November 6, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm in Bunche 9383

Weighted Garbling
Workshop in Economic Theory - Daehyun Kim (UCLA)

November 6, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Bunche 9383

Weighted Garbling

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November 10, 2025

Santiago Mosquera
November 10, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm in Bunche Hall 9383
Proseminar in Monetary and Macroeconomics Economics - Econ 228 - Santiago Mosquera

November 10, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Bunche Hall 9383

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Estafania Saravia
November 10, 2025 1:05 pm - 2:05 pm in
Albert Family Fund Proseminar in Applied Microeconomics (RAW) - Econ 268 - Estafania Saravia

November 10, 2025 1:05 pm - 2:05 pm

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November 11, 2025

Veterans Day (University holiday)

November 11, 2025

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Proseminar in Economic History - Econ 248 - No Meeting

November 11, 2025 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

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Proseminar in Economic History - Econ 248 - No Meeting

November 11, 2025 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

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November 12, 2025

Felipe Leal & Santiago Mosquera
November 12, 2025 11:40 am - 1:00 pm in Bunche 9383
Proseminar in Trade and Spatial Economics - Felipe Leal & Santiago Mosquera

November 12, 2025 11:40 am - 1:00 pm
Bunche 9383

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Albert Family Fund Seminar in Applied Microeconomics - Econ 269 - Manasi Deshpande (Chicago)

November 12, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
CCPR - Public Affairs 4240

Explaining the Historical Rise and Recent Decline in Social Security Disability Insurance Enrollment

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Manasi Deshpande (Chicago)
November 12, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm in CCPR - Public Affairs 4240

Explaining the Historical Rise and Recent Decline in Social Security Disability Insurance Enrollment
Maria Elena Guerrero and Nicholas Emery-Xu
November 12, 2025 12:00 pm - 12:50 pm in 9294 Bunche
Proseminar in Industrial Organization - Econ 278 - Maria Elena Guerrero and Nicholas Emery-Xu

November 12, 2025 12:00 pm - 12:50 pm
9294 Bunche

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Adam Rosen (Duke)
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm in
Econometrics Workshop - Adam Rosen (Duke)

November 12, 2025 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Panel Models with Unrestricted Individual Effects

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Our Mission

2025 Job Market Candidates

Introduction to UCLA Economics

William F. Sharpe Fellowship

Benjamin Graham Value Investing Program

Alumni Career Engagement

Master of Quantitative Economics

2025 Job Market Candidates

Summer Programs

Commencement

News

Research by UCLA Professor Martha Bailey featured in CBS News

UCLA Professor Martha Bailey Interviewed on the Financial Times Podcast

Alumnus Spotlight: Terry Kramer ’82 – Supporting UCLA

UCLA Professor Till von Wachter and the California Policy Lab awarded a $5.95M grant from Conrad N Hilton Foundation

Research Spotlight

How a Historic Corporate Tax Cut Reshaped the U.S. Economy

Is International Trade Draining Our Water?

Alumni Interviews

Greg Passani

Michael Powell

Featured Faculty

Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn

Martin B. Hackmann

Pablo Fajgelbaum

Recent Publications

Bottom-Up Markup Fluctuations

The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage

Selecting Penalty Parameters of High-Dimensional M-Estimators Using Bootstrapping after Cross Validation

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