News & Announcements
Around the campus
The Berkeley initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) receives the 2023 Einstein Foundation Award for promoting quality in research. BITSS advocates for ethical, transparent, and reproducible research in the social sciences in order to address the credibility crisis in the sciences and ensure that political decisions are based on robust data. The winner of the Institutional Award category receives €200,000. Read more
UC Berkeley Economics professors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman have been named 2023 Citation Laureates. This distinction recognizes that both Saez and Zucman are among the world's top economists whose work is considered to be of Nobel-prize class. Read more
Informal transfers are an important form of social insurance. But are they also a tax that dampens the incentive to work? Watch an Econimate video on a new working paper, “The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply” by Eliana Carranza, Aletheia Donald, Florian Grosset, Supreet Kaur, 2023.
"Trade and Foreign Labor”, an episode of EqualiTalks, features a conversation with Berkeley Economics Assistat Proffesor Mathilde Muñoz, who studies how trade liberalization interacts with labor market regulations and affects wage inequality. Listen here
NPR's Planet Money interviews Prof. Emi Nakamura to learn how she uses data to untangle some of the oldest mysteries in macroeconomics, about the invisible hand, the consequences of government spending, and the inner workings of inflation. Read more