News and Announcements

Weiran Jiang ’26, Diliara Sadykova ’26, and Caprice Turchiano ’25 selected to participate in the 2023 Expanding Diversity in Economics Summer Institute, hosted by the Becker Friedman Institute a the University of Chicago.

Ahna Pearson ’20 and Coly Elhai ’19 win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships in Economics!

Professors Casey and Gibson win IZA’s “Innovative Research in the Economics of Climate Change” award
Williams economics professors Greg Casey and Matthew Gibson won the award from IZA (The Institute of Labor Economics) for their paper, co-authored with Stephanie Fried, “Understanding Climate Damages: Consumption versus Investment.”

Professor Jacobson Awarded NSF Grant
Professor Sarah Jacobson has been awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation to study “In-Kind Giving: Motives, Beliefs, and Behaviors”. The grant, which will run for two years, is shared with Angela C. M. de Oliveira at U Mass Amherst and Elizabeth Searing at UT Dallas. The project will provide funding for three undergraduate students to assist in the research.