Since joining MIT Economics in 1949, Nobel laureate Robert Solow served as advisor to over 70 PhD students, four of whom went on to win Nobels themselves.
@techreview
story on Solow's career and legacy as a mentor:
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MIT Economics is excited to announce our 2021-2022 Job Market candidates! Keep an eye on this thread for individual profiles, and learn more about all of our candidates at:
Join us May 5 with
@mathmoves
for a virtual seminar recognizing
@MITEcon
Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu, the recipient of the 2020 CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications. Register now.
Meet Economics PhD Candidate Masao Fukui, whose research interests include Macroeconomics and International Trade. Learn more about Masao and our other Job Market Candidates at:
MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson share Nobel Prize in economics: Along with James Robinson, the professors are honored for work on the relationship between economic growth and political institutions.
Our Graduate Program is now accepting applications for fall 2021 admission! The GRE is not required as part of this year’s application process. More information and our online application portal can be found at:
MIT Economics and
@JPAL
congratulate Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo (Ph.D. 1999) on the Nobel Prize! They share the 2019
@NobelPrize
in Economics with Harvard’s Michael Kremer for "their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty."
Stefanie Stantcheva, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, is the recipient of the 2020 Elaine Bennett Research Prize. Visit for the full announcement.
@S_Stantcheva
@Harvard
Parag Pathak received the John Bates Clark Medal at the American Economic Association (AEA) meeting in Atlanta in early January. This honors the American economist under the age of 40 who has made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.
We're excited to introduce our 2022-2023 Job Market candidates! We’ll share individual profiles here in the days ahead, and a full list of this year's candidates is available at
Meet Economics PhD Candidate
@AllanHsiao
, whose research interests include Environmental Economics, Development Economics, and Industrial Organization. Learn more about Allan and our other Job Market Candidates at:
Meet Economics PhD Candidate Liyang Sun, whose research interests include Econometrics and Public Finance. Learn more about Liyang and our other Job Market Candidates at:
Congratulations to
@MartinBeraja
, who has been awarded an
@NSF
CAREER Award to support his research on the role of government policy in stabilizing business cycles and responding to challenges posed by new digital and automation technologies.
MIT Economics is pleased to announce that Stephen Morris has been named the inaugural Peter A. Diamond Professor of Economics. Full story from
@MIT_SHASS
news:
Meet Arianna Ornaghi, University of Warwick Postdoc and MIT Economics PhD '17, whose research interests include Political Economy and Applied Microeconomics. Learn more about Arianna and our other Job Market Candidates at:
Meet Economics PhD Candidate Carolyn Stein, whose research interests include Labor Economics, Innovation Economics, and Economics of Science. Learn more about
@carolyn_sms
and our other Job Market Candidates at:
Meet Economics PhD Candidate Ali Kakhbod, whose research interests include Financial Economics, Macroeconomics, Economic Theory, and Applied Microeconomics. Learn more about Ali and our other Job Market Candidates at:
Meet Economics PhD Candidate Joshua Bosshardt, whose research interests include Macroeconomics and Financial Economics. Learn more about Joshua and our other Job Market Candidates at:
Meet Economics PhD Candidate Michele Fornino, whose research interests include Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, and International Economics. Learn more about Michele and our other Job Market Candidates at:
Meet PhD Candidate Ben Deaner, whose research interests include Econometric Theory and Applied Econometrics. Learn more about Ben and our other Job Market Candidates at:
Peter A. Diamond Professor of Economics Stephen Morris is among those newly elected to
@theNASciences
"in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research." Congratulations!
Charles Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics Nancy Rose is the recipient of this year's Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. Congratulations on this well-deserved honor!
Dr. Nancy Rose, Charles Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Department of Economics is the recipient of the 2020 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. Visit for the full announcement.
@MITEcon
In a report from Fortune,Prof. Esther Duflo and others offer ideas to alleviate economic inequalities; Duflo suggests using data-driven steps to keep the poor from falling through the safety net:
MIT faculty member Nikhil Agarwal is advancing economic science and medical policy with his empirical research on programs to match kidney transplant patients with available organs 🔗:
Congratulations to PhD student
@EdMDavenport
on receiving the IHEA's Arrow Award for best paper in
@healtheconomics
, together with Professors Nava Ashraf and Oriana Bandiera (LSE), and Scott S. Lee (Vanderbilt)!
Meet Ariel Zucker, UC Berkeley Postdoc and MIT Economics PhD '18, whose research interests include Development Economics, Health Economics, and Environmental Economics. Learn more about
@ariel_zucker
and our other Job Market Candidates at:
Congratulations to Daron Acemoglu and Anna Mikusheva, who are among twelve professors recognized for outstanding mentorship through MIT's Committed to Caring program for 2020-2021!
MIT Econ remembers Professor Emeritus Dick Eckaus, who passed away this month at the age of 96. Eckaus (PhD '54) joined department faculty in 1962 and is remembered as not only a brilliant scholar, but also a generous and supportive colleague and mentor.
Prof. Simon Jäger and coauthors Benjamin Schoefer and Jörg Heining find that increasing worker participation at the board level increases business investment, has little effect on wages. Research featured in Bloomberg:
Simon Jäger has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, honoring “researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders.” Congratulations to Simon and all the 2022 fellows from MIT!
David Autor's Ely lecture at the AEA meetings on the declining returns of working in an urban environment for low-skill workers featured in the New York Times:
Jacob Moscona, PhD ’21 and
@JPAL
postdoc, has made
@vox_dev
’s top 10 most-read articles of all time! Check out his piece, "The impact of the Green Revolution on structural change." 👇
9️⃣ In our ninth most-read article, Jacob Moscona
@MITEcon
@HarvardEcon
outlines how introducing high-yield crop varieties ⬆️ entrenchment in the agricultural sector, while ⬇️ urban and industrial growth, using data from
#India
.
Read here:
#VoxDevTop10
Congratulations to the joint winners of the 2020 UEA Student Prize
@CharlyPorcher
and
@esoltas
! 50 excellent papers entered the competition. Honourable mentions to James Fogel, Ian Herzog, Pawel Janas, Cameron LaPoint, Ana Moreno-Maldonado, Franklin Qian and Roman Zarate.
Meet Ali Palida, MIT Sloan Postdoc and MIT Economics PhD ’20, whose research interests include Organizational Economics and Industrial Organization Theory. Learn more about Ali and our other Job Market Candidates at:
Congratulations to the first cohort of the Data, Economics, and Development Policy (DEDP) master's program, who celebrated their graduation this month!
Economics major Fiona Chen has been awarded a 2021 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans! Congratulations
@fionaychen
on this well deserved honor!
Congratulations to John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics Amy Finkelstein, who has been named a Corresponding Fellow of
@BritishAcademy_
:
Esther Duflo recently joined
@AEACSWEP
for their series of fireside chats with journal editors. See the recording and register for the November 9 session with Amy Finkelstein:
3M Career Development Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics Clare Balboni "explains that economic studies can be key to informing effective climate solutions. ‘Understanding economic incentives and human behavior and responses is crucial.”
Daniel Clark’s primary research area is Economic Theory, with secondary interests in Industrial Organization and Organizational Economics. Learn more at