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Motivating Effort in Online Learning: A Field Experiment by Daniel Dench, PhD

Assistant Professor Daniel Dench headshot By Gita Smith

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Countervailing Power: Evidence from the China Eastern and Shanghai Airlines Merger

Professor Emeritus Patrick McCarthy By Gita Smith

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How Socioeconomic Factors Affect the Use of Medical Imaging During the Covid Pandemic

Headshot of Danny Hughes in front of a chalkboard By Gita Smith

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The Well-Being of Nations: Estimating Welfare from International Migration

Assistant Professor Seung Hoon Lee professional headshot in front of chalkboard By Gita Smith

Using gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of a country’s welfare has its limitations. So how, then, are we to measure a nation’s well-being?

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How the Covid-19 Pandemic Affects Job Stress

Headshot of Professor Haizheng Li in the School of Economics By Gita Smith

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Language, Internet and Platform Competition

Associate Professor Mikhail Klimenko at Georgia Institute of Technology By Gita Smith

Although growing online globalization has increased the presence of other languages on the internet, English remains dominant – used by 59.4 percent of all the websites whose content language is known.

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Karen Yan

Karen Yan joined the School of Economics in 2019. Her research focuses on econometrics and industrial organization, and she teaches Econometrics I and Econometric Analysis.

1. Who or what inspired you to pursue economics?

While I was a math major in college, I audited some economics classes out of curiosity. I was fascinated to learn how mathematical models could be applied to real-world problems. After talking to a professor in the economics department, I decided to choose economics as my graduate school field.