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Faculty member Eric Hilt on Marketplace The history of “too big to fail” marketplace.org/2023/04/13/the…

From faculty members Kristin F. Butcher (she/her) Akila Weerapana and Patrick McEwan: Women's Colleges and Economics Major Choice: Evidence from Wellesley College Applicants nber.org/papers/w31144#…

.Phil Levine on NPR discussing college tuition costs npr.org/2023/04/27/117…

Congratulations to these fantastic thesis students and 2023 Ruhlman presenters! Nuzaina Faisal Khan, Amy Rose, Beatrice Chen, Eshika Kaul, Mariela Duran and Julie Ma

Last day of classes yesterday…class of 23 Econ seniors outdid themselves with fantastic customized monopoly game (complete with directions manual!) outstanding work!

New paper from Kristin F. Butcher (she/her), Akila Weerapana and Patrick McEwan featured on @NBER research spotlight nber.org/papers/w31144

Congratulations to Olga Shurchkov and Akila Weerapana on receiving promotions to Full Professor. Our department and Wellesley College are enormously lucky to have you in our orbit!

We are thrilled for faculty member Baafra Abeberese -- one three Pinanski Prize in Teaching Award winners AND Class of 1966 Associate Professor!

Congrats, Elira Kuka ‘09 on receiving tenure!

Congratulations to the multi-talented Wellesley College Economics Department alumna Alice Y. Liang '16 on her New York Times Games crossword today! nytimes.com/crosswords/gam…

Great background on Class of 2016 Alice Y. Liang's first @nytgames crossword 💙💙💙nytimes.com/2023/06/11/cro…

Interesting new paper on the economics of Alzheimer's disease from faculty member Courtney Coile, and coauthors Amitabh Chandra & Corina Mommaerts aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

.Phil Levine on Nightline last night discussing the college tuition crisis abcnews.go.com/Nightline/vide…

Very much enjoyed presenting new work (coauthored with David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social and Wellesley College Economics Department recent alum Nuzaina Khan) at #neew2023 at Middlebury and catching up with friends and colleagues Brianna Halladay Ian Chadd 🏳️‍🌈

Congratulations to Diane Schanzenbach '95 on her new position at FLORIDA. Exciting news! news.ufl.edu/2023/06/schanz…

Congrats, Alice Y. Liang!

Eric Hilt -- faculty member, Economic historian, and whaling industry expert 🐳🐳🐳 featured on Freakonomics podcast series, "Everything You Never Knew About Whaling"

🆕 The Green Revolution and the rise in chronic disease 🇮🇳 Today on VoxDev, Kartini Shastry Wellesley College and Sheetal Sekhri UVA outline how dietary diversity in India changed after the Green Revolution, and explore how this impacted health: voxdev.org/topic/health/g…

🆕 Effective health aid: Evidence from Gavi’s vaccine programme Today on VoxDev, Kartini Shastry (Wellesley College Economics Department) and Dan Tortorice (College of the Holy Cross) discuss how coordinated health aid has saved the lives of children around the world: voxdev.org/topic/health/e…