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• School of Economics Study Examines Impact of Trade Liberalization on Wage Gap, Work Patterns

  February 17, 2021

  

  A new study from the Georgia Tech School of Economics unpacks that effect in detail by examining the impacts of the U.S. decision to grant China Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status in 2000.

• Economics Ph.D. Students Named Winners of 2021 Graduate Paper Competition

  February 17, 2021

  
  Archana Ghodeswar & Vikrant Kamble received second and third place in this year's Graduate Paper Competition!

• State of the College Address Celebrates Wins and Focuses on Priorities Ahead

  February 3, 2021

  
  Dean Kaye Husbands Fealing assessed ongoing efforts and focused the College's energy on the year ahead in the address.

• Georgia Tech's School of Economics Celebrates Its Success and 50 Years of Granting Degrees

  January 27, 2021

  
  The School of Economics is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first economics degree awarded at Tech with activities highlighting its remarkable growth — and auspicious future.

• Ivan Allen College Announces Winners of 2021 Graduate Paper Competition

  January 21, 2021

  
  Five graduate students from three different schools won cash prizes for excellence in research and scholarship.

• Patrick McCarthy, Former School of Economics Chair, Retires After Nearly 20 Years

  December 30, 2020

  

  McCarthy, who spent 11 years as Chair, helped launch the School's graduate programs and leaves behind a strong legacy of research, teaching, and service.

• Ivan Allen College Researcher Shows Many in U.S. Faced Economic Hardship Due to Covid-19

  December 16, 2020

  

  New research has found almost 25% of people surveyed experienced some form of deprivation due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

• Congratulations to all Fall 2020 Graduates!

  December 9, 2020

  
  On behalf of the School of Economics faculty and staff, we are proud of our amazing students that have matriculated this year! 

• Georgia Tech Economics Doctoral Student Accepts Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University

  November 30, 2020

  
  Tony Harding, a graduating Ph.D. student in the School of Economics has accepted a postdoctoral position at Harvard University.

• Ivan Allen College Student Athletes Honored at Graduation Brunch

  November 23, 2020

  
  Six student-athletes earned undergraduate or graduate degrees from the College.

• EIA Major Abigail Burke Makes the Most of Federal Jackets Internship

  November 23, 2020

  

  Abby Burke, a fourth-year student in the Ivan Allen College majoring in economics and international affairs (EIA) and a member of the most recent class of interns, spent her summer working for the office of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Atlanta.

• New Georgia Tech Strategic Plan Positions Ivan Allen College to Lead

  November 19, 2020

  

  Georgia Tech’s new strategic plan, unveiled Nov. 19, 2020, defines a vision highlighting the unique values and strengths of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

• Georgia Tech Econ Professor Serves as a Panelist in the China Research Center's Annual Breakfast Briefing

  October 27, 2020

  
  Professor Haizheng Li has been invited to be a panelist in the China Research Center's annual China Breakfast Briefing on October 29th.

• Georgia Tech PhD Student, Xin Gu, Wins Inaugural 3rd-year Paper Award

  October 21, 2020

  
  Gu (advisor: Professor Haizheng Li) was the recipient of the inaugural 3rd-year paper award in the School of Economics with an accompanying $500 prize for his paper “Peer Effects and Cognitive Ability Formation.”

• Study Shows War's Toll on Children's Long-Term Health

  October 13, 2020

  
  Olga Shemyakina is a pioneer in the field of health-related effects of war. Her most recent study, Political Violence and Child Health: Results from Zimbabwe, is in the very same field that led to a Nobel Peace Prize being given.

• Ivan Allen College Faculty, Students, Participate in ‘17 Zooms’

  October 7, 2020

  

  Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts faculty members and students participated in a campus-wide discussion on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on Oct. 1. The Georgia Institute of Technology president’s office sponsored the invitation-only “17 Zooms” online event.

• School Chair Laura Taylor Presents at the Georgia Tech Global Climate Action Symposium

  September 30, 2020

  
  Dr. Taylor will join panelists Ambassador Marcel Beukeboom of the Netherlands, Shelby Buso, Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of Atlanta, and Mirgana Spoljaric Egger of the United Nations Development Programme to discuss COVID19 and green recovery

• Georgia Tech Postdoctoral Fellow Publishes Research on the Effects of Paid Sick Leave on Worker Absenteeism

  September 23, 2020

  
  Dr. Jie Chen and her coauthors estimate the short‐term effects of paid sick leave on worker absenteeism and health care utilization in the United States using data from the 2000–2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.

• New Research Explains the World Trade Organization's Response to Export Subsidies

  September 17, 2020

  
  Assistant Professor, Seung Hoon Lee, (School of Economics) and co-author, Kyle Bagwell (Stanford University), provide a new rationale for global trade policy set by the World Trade Organization (WTO).

• Ozkan and Shemyakina Named to Leading Women@Tech Cohort

  September 17, 2020

  

  Two Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts faculty and staff –  Sebnem Özkan, associate director of the Atlanta Global Studies Program and Olga Shemyakina, associate professor in the School of Economics – have been named to the 2020-21 cohort of Leading Women@Tech.

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