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Ying Fang received his PhD from the Department of Economics of the University of Pittsburgh in 2006. He is currently a Full Professor at Xiamen University and has recently received the ... View »
Lia Petrose has been awarded 2016 Harry S. Truman Scholarship, a prestigious national honor awarded for graduate school and... View »
The annual Cliometric Society Conference in 2016 will be held on the weekend of Friday, May 20 through Saturday, May 21 at the University... View »
Congratulations to Hao Feng, Chengyling Luo and Siqiang Yang for being awarded the Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship for the 2016-2017 academic year.
Chengying’s Mellon proposal... View »
Research on racial segregation and "white flight" by Professors Shertzer and Walsh was featured in articles on The Washington Post blog entitled... View »
Lisa Schreiber, CVP, Oracle will present "Beyond Your Resume, January 28 from 4 - 5 pm in 4500 WWPH.
View »We are pleased to announce that starting in AY2016-2017, Economics will be part of the Arts & Sciences Hot Metal Bridge Program, a two-semester post-baccalaureate fellowship program for... View »
Congratulations to Economics major Marko Gudic. Marko won Pitt’s 2015 Iris Marion Young Award for Political... View »
We are pleased to announce that Tate Twinam (University of Pittsburgh PhD in 2015) is the recipient of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) 2015 Dissertation award. Tate’s... View »
We are excited to have David Danz from the WZB Berlin Social Science Center for the Fall semester 2015.
View »Professor David Huffman received his PhD from University of California, Berkeley. He is joining the department from Oxford University, and has previously held positions at IZA in Bonn and at... View »
Starting August 2015, David Huffman, professor of the Economics Department, will be the new Director of the Pittsburgh Experimental Economics Laboratory.
View »Yang song who is receiving a PhD in economics will address the attendents of Pitt's 2015 commencement ceremony on behalf of the graduate students.
View »Watch this Politrics video about gender differences in holding political office based on the research conducted by Jonathan Woon at PEEL
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