Department News & Notes, Spring 2013

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Faculty News

Associate Professor Yu-Chin Chen's paper "What Does the Yield Curve Tell Us about Exchange Rate Predictability?" with Kwok Ping Tsang (Ph.D. 2008) was published in the March 2013 issue of the Review of Economics and Statistics. She also joined the editorial board of Pacific Economic Review, served on the conference committee for the Annual Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics at the University of Milano-Bicocca, and was invited to become a research associate of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at the National University of Australia. Dr. Chen is also a consultant for Google. Professor Fahad Khalil gave a talk at the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences at the University of Washington, "An Introduction to the Theory of Incentives" in January. He also recently presented the paper “Private Monitoring, Collusion and the Timing of Information," co-authored withProfessor Jacques Lawarree and Troy J Scott (Ph.D. 2011) at the Asian Econometrics Society meetings, New Delhi, India. Professor Chang-Jin Kim's paper "Trend Inflation and the Nature of Structural Breaks in the New Keynesian Phillips Curves," coauthored with Pym Manopimoke (Ph.D. 2010) and Professor Emeritus Charles R. Nelson, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. Associate Professor of Public Affairs & Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics Mark Long's paper is forthcoming in the American Journal of Education: "Gender Sorting Across K-12 Schools in the U.S." with Dylan Conger. He presented this paper at Stanford University in December. He co-authored "Women Students Dominating in Many Countries," with Dylan Conger, in University World News: Issue 261, March 2013. Dr. Long additionally was elected to the Policy Council of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. In March, he presented "Changes in Levels of Affirmative Action in College Admissions in Response to Statewide Bans and Judicial Rulings," with Grant H. Blume at the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Conference. Haideh Salehi-Esfahani was promoted to Principal Lecturer in February following recommendation by the Department and approval by the College Council and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Salehi-Esfahani joined the faculty in 1990 as a visiting lecturer, and was promoted to senior lecturer the following year. She earned her Ph.D. in economics in 1985 at the University of Pennsylvania, and her B.Sc. in mathematical economics and econometrics at the London School of Economics in 1979. Professor Stephen Turnovsky had the following papers accepted for publication: "Demography, Growth, and Inequality," Economic Theory (with J.O. Mierau); "The Interaction between Human Capital and Physical Capital Accumulation and the Growth-Inequality Trade-off," Journal of Human Capital (with A. Mitra); and "Social Security, Growth, and Welfare in Overlapping Generations Economies with or without Annuities," Journal of Public Economics (with Professor Neil Bruce). Additionally, Dr. Turnovsky will give the keynote address at the 17th International Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance in Crete in May.

Student News

Senior Adibah Abdulhadi will be president of the Economics Undergraduate Board (EUB) spring quarter. She has been a member of the EUB for two years. Graduate student Joelle Abramowitz has accepted a position with the U.S. Census Bureau in the Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics division of the Health and Disability branch. She will begin in July. Congratulations to graduate student Erica Clower for passing her general exams in March and advancing to doctoral candidacy. Senior Genevieve Gebhart was awarded the prestigious Luce scholarship for 2013-2014. As a Luce Scholar, Gennie will spend the 2013-2014 academic year in a professional internship in Asia, supported by language study and a generous stipend. Students must be nominated by their university for this national scholarship, for which only 15 -18 recipients are chosen each year. Graduate student Laine Rutledge co-authored "Does International Child Sponsorship Work? A Six-country Study of Impacts on Adult Life Outcomes" (with B. Wydick and P. Glewwe) which will be published in the April issue of Journal of Political Economy. The paper finds statistically significant positive impacts on children involved in these programs. Dan Wang successfully defended her dissertation in March to complete requirements for the Ph.D. She will begin a postdoctoral position at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing in April. Graduate students Emre Aylar, Danny Brent, David Kuenzel, and Yian Chen were awarded Ensley Fellowships for the 2013-2014 academic year.
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