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Microeconomics class at 8am? Absolutely! Learn about how professor @WayneGeerling keeps students engaged with his unique teaching style. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/richa…

Congratulations to PhD alum Marcus Dillender for winning the AEA's 2024 CSQIEP Award for Outstanding Research Paper in LGBTQ+ Economics. 👏👏 UT Liberal Arts aeaweb.org/about-aea/comm…

We are thrilled to officially announce that Sandy Black will be returning to UT-Austin Economics as a faculty member this fall! UT Liberal Arts UT Austin

New NBER working paper by Steve Trejo examines how the age of immigration for Mexican immigrants affects their ethnic identification and that of their children.

Congratulations to Svetlana Boyarchenko on being elected as a 2024 Economic Theory Fellow (SAET). saet.uiowa.edu

Congratulations to Chris Boehm and our former UT Austin graduate Niklas Kroner on getting their paper "The US, Economic News, and the Global Financial Cycle" accepted at Review of Economic Studies The Review of Economic Studies! 🥳 UT-Austin Economics Link to working paper: dropbox.com/scl/fi/wak4l8w…

Americans are stockpiling ahead of Trump’s tariffs, according to consumer data collected by UT-Austin Economics’s Olivier Coibion, UC Berkeley’s Yuriy Gorodnichenko, and Chicago Booth’s Michael Weber. ms.spr.ly/6012UMTFI #tariffs

The February 2025 issue of AEJ: Economic Policy features articles by both Marika Cabral and Jackson Dorsey. Jackson Dorsey AEA Journals

Americans are stockpiling ahead of Trump’s tariffs, according to consumer data collected by UT-Austin Economics’s Olivier Coibion, UC Berkeley’s Yuriy Gorodnichenko, and Chicago Booth’s Michael Weber. ms.spr.ly/6011UneMb #tariffs

"Examiner and Judge Designs in Economics: A Practitioner’s Guide" by Eric Chyn and his co-authors is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Literature. AEA Journals aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

How much would people pay to avoid business cycles? Professor Olivier Coibion and his collaborators answer this question in a new NBER working paper. Empirical Macroeconomics Policy Center of Texas UT Liberal Arts

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Long-Run Effects of America’s Largest Residential Desegregation Program: Gautreaux,” by Chyn (Eric Chyn), Collinson (Rob Collinson), and Sandler: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

We're excited that Rafael Veiel will be joining the department as an Assistant Professor in the fall! 🤘 Rafael Veiel

The 28th annual Texas Econometrics Camp was held this past weekend at the Canyon of the Eagles (Burnet, TX). Great talks by PhD students and faculty, and some s'mores too! SMU Economics Rice Economics Texas A&M Department of Economics UH Economics Dallas Fed

Congratulations to Economics major Kevin Chen, who is a co-author on the recently published Nature Human Behavior paper, "The global landscape of academic guidelines for generative AI and LLMs." nature.com/articles/s4156…

We have a new working paper: 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 with Sebastian Link, Andreas Peichl, Chris Roth and Johannes Wohlfart Short thread below ⬇️ Empirical Macroeconomics Policy Center of Texas ifo Institut Universität zu Köln Economics LMU Munich UT-Austin Economics

UT Austin jumps to #21 in the latest US News rankings of Economics programs. 🤘 usnews.com/best-graduate-…

🆕 One Laptop per Child: Lessons from a long-term follow up Today on VoxDev, Santiago Cueto (GRADE), Diether Beuermann (Inter-American Development Bank), Julian Cristia (Inter-American Development Bank), Ofer Malamud (Northwestern SESP) & Francisco Pardo (UT-Austin Economics) outline research on Peru: voxdev.org/topic/educatio…

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬: 𝐀𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐔𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑 (MIT Press) has an official publication date of 11/25/2025! Instructors can use it for free in fall--DM me. probstats4econ.com

Medicaid has grown in Republican congressional districts by 8.46 million or 32% since 2013. Cutting Medicaid in the Republican budget would mean cutting benefits for Republicans' constituents. Link to our new Briefing Book post in the thread.