The Well-Being of Nations: Estimating Welfare from International Migration
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?
By Gita SmithLanguage, Internet and Platform Competition
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.
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.
By Gita Smith
By Gita SmithThe Complex Relationship Between Income and Smoking
By Gita Smith
Economists have long studied how personal income and relative deprivation affect social outcomes such as education, bullying/victimization, and health.
Are Trade Sanctions Credible or Are They Cheap Talk?
By Gita Smith
It is known that imposing sanctions against a country can restrict its ability to do business, putting political and economic pressure on the target country. But can sanctions also adversely affect the imposing country?
Complex Job Tasks Improve Problem Solving Skills
By Gita Smith
Job task complexity plays a central role in the development of problem-solving skills by workers, according to research by Haizheng Li, a faculty member of Georgia Tech’s School of Economics. Along with co-author Qinyi Liu at University of International Business and Economics, Beijing. Liu received her PhD in Economics from Georgia Tech in 2018 and Li was her advisor. Li provides new empirical evidence on skill formation via job tasks. The paper focuses on how a worker becomes more productive through learning-by-doing during on-the-job training.