Highlighting new scholarly work, awards, grants and other news in the Oxy Economics department.
- This year's recipients of the Economics Department's awards areLeonard Tillson(Bennett Schwartz Award),Daria Undeland(Jim Halstead Award),Francesca Rodoni and Leonard Tillson (Betty Tracy Award) andGrace Luu(Robby Moore Award). Award descriptions can be foundhere.
- Associate Professor Andrew Jalil’s study, “,” appears on a list of the most cited articles in the journalFood Policy.
- 18 students and Professor Jason Wong went to Germany as a part of (Political Economy of Sustainable Development: Case of Germany). The course began as an on-campus seminar in Spring 2021. After that, students spent three weeks traveling across Germany to learn about the country's political and economic structures, as well as environmental and sustainability topics.
- This year's recipients of the Economics Department's awards are Ruth Schlosser (Bennett Schwartz Award and Jim Halstead Award), Ansel Jeffries (Robby Moore Award), and Ashley Muranaka-Toolsie (Betty Tracy Award). Award descriptions can be found here.
- Associate Professor Andrew Jalil and his coauthors published their new,examining the effectiveness of an intervention to shift consumers towards more sustainable food choices,Nature Food, one of the Nature journals.
- Assistant Professor Jorgen Harris, along with coauthor Rhiannon Jerch, released a with the Center for Growth and Opportunity. They examine the effect of receiving Temporary Protected Status on formerly undocumented immigrants, finding that legal immigration status led to sustained improvements in income, job quality, and homeownership.
- Associate Professor Jesse Mora and Economics Major Mary Hancock’s “The Impact of COVID-19 on Chinese trade and production: An empirical analysis of processing trade with Japan and the US” was published in the Journal of Asian Economics. Mary is the first Oxy student to publish apeer-reviewed academic paper with an Econ professor.
- Assistant Professor Kevin William’s article "" waspublished in the Journal of Labor Economics.
- Assistant Professor Jesse Mora was awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor.
- Economics majors Aidan Garagic ’22 and Layla Devlin ’23 have been named as Occidental’s 2023-24 student Fulbright semi-finalists.
- Associate Professor of Economics Andrew Jalil’s research on banking panics is cited in Christina Romer’s .
- Economics alum received the2023 Alumni Seal Awards from theOccidental College Alumni Association.
- A team of six Oxy students, including Andrew Masciarelli - an Economics major, Stephanie Enriquez Isais, Roshni Edwards, Dylan Herbert, Oscar Petter, and Peyton Resto, won third place in the Global Circular Challenge 2022 held at the London School of Economics on Dec 3 2022. Team Oxy was led by Economics Professor Jason Wong and supported by the Bennett Schwartz Fund.
- Project management techniques are important for the successful completion of large projects. Associate Professor of EconomicsDaryl Ono’sin theJournal of Cost Analysis & Parametricsshows that microeconomic tools can be implemented to improve the probability of success of a project. “A Continuance of Marginal Cost Methodology in Project Change Management” uses statistical analysis to illustrate the effectiveness of this methodology.
- Associate Professor of Economics Andrew Jalil California’s KCRW to discuss rising inflation in the United States. Professor Jalil explained that the Federal Reserve is striving for a “Goldilocks moment,” where they raise interest rates enough to slow inflation but not so much as to provoke a recession.
- The Economics Department's work in the 2021-2022 academic year to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion is summarized in the year-end report.
- Assistant Professor of EconomicsJorgen HarrisܲThe Conversationdescribing his research on gender and employment in the judiciary. The article highlights aby Harris and his coauthors, published inthe Journal of Labor Economics.
- Woody Studenmund,Laurence de Rycke Professor of Economics, retires after 52 years at Oxy.
- Professor of EconomicsLesley Chiouwas awarded the 2022 Antitrust Writing Awards byConcurrences Reviewfor her article with co-author Avigail Kifer, "."The article examines when firms may offer products priced for free and how do firms compete in markets where prices are set to zero?
- Associate Professor of Economics Andrew Jalil was interviewed by about the Federal Reserve's recent interest rate hikes and the likelihood of recession.
- Assistant Professor of EconomicsJorgen Harris has a new article inLabour Economics! In, Professor Harris finds that increases in women's work and education in the second half of the 20th century led to big changes in women’s representation in many high-education occupations.
- Using a randomized control trial in India, Assistant Professor of EconomicsJason Wongand co-authors find that vouchers of equal value increase household willingness to pay for solar lanterns more than cash transfers and microfinance schemes.published inEnergy Economics,demonstrates that affordability is a prime obstacle and supports the use of voucher-like incentive programs to encourage transitional technologies.
- Assistant Professor of Economics Jesse Mora’s new article in Empirical Economics takes a new approach to defining how country-level exports grow. shows that country-level export growth will depend on five growth drivers (comparative advantage changes, product demand growth, country-level growth, global growth, and growth in destinations reached).
- Catlin Hedeman '21 publishes her honors thesisin theUndergraduate Economic Review.
- In a in Energy Economics, Jason Wong and co-authors use a conjoint experiment to study electricity billing preferences in India. They find that respondents prefer consumption-based tariffs as opposed to fixed fees, and suggest that policy reforms should transition away from fixed fee schemes.
- Jorgen Harris and Mary Lopez are awarded a that will support research examining the effect of a recent expansion of college courses offered in prison on the lives of incarcerated students.
- The Economics Department's work in the 2020-2021 academic year to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion is summarized in the year-end report.
- Diana Ngois honored as a recipientthe Linda and Tod White Teaching Prize.
- Brandon Lehr publishesa newtextbook,(Routledge).
- AndrewJalil publishes “” inFrontiers in Psychology.
- Senior Jordan Walker '21 receives prestigious . Jordan Walker is Occidental College’s 18thLuce Scholarsince the program was initiated in 1974. Through the award, he will be placed in a major Asian city, connected to important institutions and people in his areas of interest, and given a year of financial and administrative support to cultivate his career.
- In a new article, "",Economics Prof. Jason Wong and co-authors study perceptions and acceptability of electricity theft using a large-scale survey experiment in Uttar Pradesh, India. They showed that there exists a sense of social reprimand for stealing power, however, desired punishment is nuanced and context-dependent.
- Emeritus Professors Jim WhitneyandRobby Mooreand former Oxy administrator and UEPProf. Hanna Song, publish "," in the Eastern Economic Journal.
- Jason Wong, an environmental and urban economist, joins the economics department.
- AndrewJalil publishes "" inFood Policy.
- Kayla Hreczuck '21, Eva Ma '22, Luca Van der Meer '22, and Zhichao Yu'21present their summer research at Oxy'sAnnual Undergraduate Research Conference.
- The Economics Department has created working groups that will identify and initiate departmental practices that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- The Economics Department has issued a statement of support and solidarity in the fight against anti-Blackness.
- A new by Lesley Chiou and Catherine E. Tucker (MIT) has found that regions with low-income populations and low Internet penetration are less likely to follow safe-at-home orders and are thus more vulnerable to the COVID-19 coronavirus.
- Linnea Dewees ’14, an economics major from Tampa, Fla., who is teaching in Thailand is an Occidental2019-20 Fulbright winner.
- Diana Ngois a co-PI on a to purchase a high-performance computer cluster to support faculty research and teaching across the scientific disciplines.
- Kevin Williams publishes "" in theEconomics of Education Review.
- Jorgen Harris, a labor economist, joins the economics department. Wafa Abedin '21,Reese Ingraham'20, Jordan Walker '21, and Mary Zhang '21present their summer research at Oxy's 20th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference.
- Bevin Ashenmiller is interviewed by reporter Sarah Gonzalez for an episode of NPR’s podcast “”on the economics of recycling.
- Robby Moore retires after 41 years at Oxy. Economics majors from team take second place in Stanford Finance’s Stock Pitch Championship, which attracts teams from across the country.
- Lesley Chiouisinvited by the Federal Communications Commissionto present her research on the effects of Internet diffusion on pricing and competition in offline markets.
- Diana Ngo publishes “” (joint with Andrew Dustan) in the Economics of Education Review.
- The Federal Trade CommissioninvitesLesley Chiou as a panelist for its Public Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century.
- Brandon Lehr is awarded the Linda and Tod White Teaching Prize.
- Kevin M. Williams, an education economist, joins the economics department.
- Nelson Rayl '19and Andrew McCall '19present their summer research at Oxy's 19th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference.
- TheEconomics Department is profiled in "Economies of Scale" from the Summer 2018 Oxy Magazine.
- Diana Ngo publishes"" in the Journal of Development Economics.
- Jesse Mora publishes“” (joint with Alan Spearot and Federico Diez) in the Handbook of International Trade and Transportation.
- Mary Lopez publishes her new book (joint with Dolores Trevizo), .
- Kirsten Wandschneider is appointed as a Research Fellow in the Economic History Program at the.