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Anujit Chakraborty studies how contact between Hindus and Muslims shapes beliefs

  • by Santiago E Perez

Associate Professor Anujit Chakraborty released a new NBER working paper, Learning About Outgroups: The Impact of Broad Versus Deep Interactions, with coauthors Arkadev Ghosh, Matt Lowe and Gareth Nellis. In a factory the researchers set up in India, Hindu and Muslim men worked either in brief interactions with many members of the other group or in a longer pairing with one; the longer pairings built ties with that partner, but only the broad contact reduced the majority group's misperceptions about outgroup strangers. Neither kind of contact changed behavior toward the wider outgroup.

David Rapson co-edits Energy Journal special issue on electricity regulation

  • by Santiago E Perez

Professor David Rapson co-edited, with Lynne Kiesling, a special issue of The Energy Journal that translates economic research into practical guidance for electricity regulators. The six articles cover topics from regulated monopoly structure and grid reliability to the environmental value of renewable energy and energy justice.

Janine Wilson and Katherine Eriksson lead the department's first study abroad program

  • by Santiago E Perez

Janine Wilson and Katherine Eriksson have just returned from South Africa, where they led the department's inaugural faculty-led study abroad program. Over three weeks, they taught Economic Development to 21 students in the context of the South African experience, based at Stellenbosch University. Students met with local leaders and organizations and spent time in Cape Town, with a safari rounding out the trip. 

Professor Marianne Page delivers two invited lectures

  • by Santiago E Perez

Professor Marianne Page gave two keynote-level lectures this spring. In April she delivered the Reid Elliott Lecture at the University of Victoria, speaking on "Sources of Generational Persistence in the Effects of Early-Life Health Interventions." In June she was a keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Canadian Economics Association.
 

Giovanni Peri at the ECB Forum in Sintra

  • by Santiago E Perez

Giovanni was an invited speaker at the 2026 ECB Forum on Central Banking, held June 29 – July 1 in Sintra, Portugal — the European counterpart to Jackson Hole. He presented "The immigration impact on population, labor productivity, investments and TFP in OECD countries," coauthored with Gaetano Basso (Banca d'Italia) and Mitali Mathur (UC Davis), as the featured paper in the session on migration and European productivity. The session was chaired by ECB Vice-President Boris Vujčić, with Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics) as discussant.

Chris Meissner appointed as Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University

  • by Santiago E Perez

Professor Chris Meissner will be the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions 2026-2027 at Cambridge University. Previous holders of this prestigious chair include Nobel laureates such as Douglass C North and Robert Fogel as well as many other leading economic historians and historians from the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitt_Professor_of_American_History_and_Institutions

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