Tag: economics

Janet Currie investigates the building blocks of children’s success

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By Michael Hotchkiss TRAINED AS A LABOR ECONOMIST, Janet Currie earned her doctorate at Princeton by studying strikes and arbitration. But as she began her academic career in the late 1980s, she shifted her focus Continue Reading →

SIMON LEVIN Receives Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

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Simon Levin, the George M. Moffett Professor of Biology, was awarded the 2014 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for bridging ecological research and environmental policy, economics and social science. Levin received an award of $200,000 Continue Reading →

DANIEL KAHNEMAN Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Daniel Kahneman, the Eugene Higgins Professor of psychology, emeritus, and a Nobel laureate in economics, is one of 16 people who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the highest civilian honor in the United Continue Reading →

House of Debt: How they (and you) caused the great recession, and how we can prevent it from happening again

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Authors: Atif Mian and Amir Sufi Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2014 The Great American Recession resulted in the loss of 8 million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than 4 million homes were lost Continue Reading →

Study casts doubt on fairness of U.S. democracy

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AFFLUENT INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESS CORPORATIONS have vastly more influence on federal government policy than average citizens, according to research by Princeton University and Northwestern University. The researchers used a data set comprised of 1,779 policy Continue Reading →

The rising cost of health care: Students examine policy solutions

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With health care costs soaring, opinions abound on the best way to control costs without sacrificing patient outcomes. This past academic year, as part of their senior thesis research, several top students from the Department Continue Reading →

William G. Bowen and Natalie Davis receive National Humanities Medal

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At a White House ceremony, William G. Bowen, Princeton’s 17th president, and Natalie Zemon Davis, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Emerita, were awarded the National Humanities Medal for 2012. The medal recognizes 12 Continue Reading →

Activism Shapes Africa Scholar

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Leonard Wantchekon’s education began  as a young child in his home village of Zagnanado, in the West African nation of Benin, where elementary school classes gave way to long soccer games and evenings of storytelling Continue Reading →

Harold T. Shapiro receives National Academy of Sciences’ Public Welfare Medal

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Harold T. Shapiro (left), Princeton president emeritus and a professor of economics and public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, was awarded the 2012 National Academy of Sciences’ Public Welfare Continue Reading →