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The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) is hosting our annual Evidence to Action (E2A) Research Symposium in San Francisco on October 29th, with keynote speaker Bright Simons, co-founder of mPedigree. Seating is limited, so please submit an "Expression of Interest" form today.
Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics Ted Miguel has been invited to the Nobel Prize award ceremony and banquet in Stockholm, Sweden, in recognition of Miguel’s contribution to the winners’ “experimental approach to alleviating poverty.” Read more
Generous support from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation establishes a new center for Wealth and Income Inequality at the Department of Economics. The center will be led by Gabriel Zucman, professor of economics and public policy at UC Berkeley, and Emmanuel Saez, professor of economics and director of Berkeley’s Center for Equitable Growth. Read more
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Berkeley Economics Professor Emi Nakamura's interview with The Chronicle about her research, the importance of the Federal Reserve, and women in the economics field. Read more
Announcing the 2019 class of academic grants and grantees from the Washington Center for equitable Growth: This year, more than $1 million in grants will be awarded to 33 U.S. scholars and 15 doctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars researching key issues related to economic inequality and growth. Congratulations to Berkeley Economics faculty and doctoral students: Hilary Hoynes, Benjamin Schoefer, Ellora Derenoncour, Ingrid Haegele, and Krista Ruffini, who will receive funding to support research on inequality. Read more