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Category: Research
Assistant Professors Alipio Ferreira and Prasanthi Ramakrishnan join Economics Department faculty
Prasanthi Ramakrishnan
Ramakrishnan is a labor economist, with research interests at the intersection of Household Economics, Health Economics and Entrepreneurship. She focuses on different types of inequality in the labor market, either by gender or by race, and aims to understand the mechanisms causing these inequalities using cutting-edge microeconometric methods. Her research agenda explores the importance of incorporating education, marriage, and decisions within the household in analyzing changes to the social security system, a system that treats married and single households differently. Her agenda also studies differences in gender and race amongst entrepreneurs and to understand policy prescriptions to boost entrepreneurship, as well as incentives to take up health insurance amongst the poor and rich. Read more
Alipio Ferreira
Before joining SMU, Ferreira worked as an environmental consultant in the Finance Department of the São Paulo, Brazil State Government, and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Abul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Toulouse School of Economics, a Master’s degree from Tilburg University, and a Bachelor’s degree from São Paulo School of Economics. Alipio’s research is focused on law enforcement issues in public finance and environmental regulation in developing countries. He is currently studying policies to increase the efficiency of environmental enforcement practices, with the goal of reducing illegal deforestation and improving environmental quality. Read more
Beth Wheaton-Paramo leads the team creating the human trafficking data warehouse
SMU is creating a federally-funded data warehouse to centralize data collection and support research into human trafficking in the United States. Read more about the team conducting this important research here.
Former SMU PhD student wins best paper prize
Ani Harutyunyan is a former PhD student in the SMU economics department who eventually earned her PhD at KU Leuven in Belgium. A chapter of her PhD dissertation that she wrote while at SMU has been awarded the Bergson Prize by the Association of Comparative Economic Studies. This prize is given once every 2 years to best paper published during that period in the journal Comparative Economic Studies.
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Klaus Desmet on climate change in the NBER reporter
A series of research papers by Klaus Desmet on the spatial economic impact of climate change was featured in the most recent NBER Reporter.
Klaus Desmet on Vox: Facebook and gender gap in preferences
Klaus Desmet’s research has been featured recently in both a VoxEU column and a VoxTalk podcast! The basic question Klaus and his co-authors investigate is whether women and men more similar in their preferences in more gender-equal societies. Continue reading “Klaus Desmet on Vox: Facebook and gender gap in preferences”
Mike Sposi awarded CEPR grant
Mike Sposi (Principal Investigator) and Jing Zhang (Co-investigator, Chicago Fed) received a grant that is funded by the Structural Transformation and Economic Growth research initiative, a consortium led by Centre for Economic Policy Research. Continue reading “Mike Sposi awarded CEPR grant”
Tim Salmon takes over as Editor at Economic Inquiry
Congratulations to Tim Salmon who has been appointed as the Editor at Economic Inquiry! Continue reading “Tim Salmon takes over as Editor at Economic Inquiry”
Dan Millimet blog post on causalscience.org
Anyone who has sat in more than a few departmental seminars and presentations in the Economics department at SMU knows that Dan Millimet’s favorite subject matter is how measurement error affects the ability of empirical researchers to infer causal relationships from data. So, it’s no surprise that he has a new blog post on this issue for causalinference.org.
PhD student Shuo Qi wins Cobb Fellowship
Shuo Qi received the 2021 Cobb Fellowship after the Economics Department faculty voted that her third year research paper was the strongest among her fellow classmates. The fellowship provides funding for the 4th year of the PhD program and removes any teaching assistant or research assistant responsibilities so the recipient can focus as much as possible on their dissertation progress. Continue reading “PhD student Shuo Qi wins Cobb Fellowship”