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No Buckeye Goes Hungry: Students Open Food Pantry
When he was 11 years old, Alec Admonius’ parents took him along as they volunteered with Meals on Wheels in their neighborhood just outside of Detroit. It must have made quite an impression, because…
Women book business flights earlier
A recent research by Javier Donna, assistant professor of economics at Ohio State, examines a large dataset with 6.4 million flight bookings in 2014 to analyze gender differences in the demand for…
Psychology/Economics Professor Receives NSF CAREER Award
Ian Krajbich, assistant professor, psychology and economics, has received a five-year NSF CAREER Award of $722,305. Krajbich is developing models to apply and test across different types of human…
The Counterintuitive Downside of Moving Away from Poverty
Richard Steckel, Professor Emeritus, Economics, is co-author of a new study on the historical origins of cardiovascular disease in the American South. In the working paper, “Historical Origins of a…
Weinberg Co-Authors Study on Economic Benefit of Funding Doctorates
Bruce Weinberg, associate professor, economics, is a lead author of a new study revealing the economic benefit of providing research funding for science PhD students. The study, published in the Dec…
Experimental Economics
When GABE ENGLANDER, a fourth-year honors student from Cincinnati, declared his major in economics, he had a rather lofty goal in mind: to become an advisor to the President of the United States. And…
Ohio State economics major named 2015 Beinecke Scholar
Nima Dahir, an Ohio State junior majoring in economics and mathematics, has been named a 2015 Beinecke Scholar.The Beinecke Scholarship is awarded to twenty students annually who have demonstrated…
2015 Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Awards
Economics Department Assistant Professor Katie Coffman is a 2015 Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor, recognized for the leadership and support she provided to undergraduate…
Getting Published: An Undergraduate’s Hard Work Pays Off
Alumnus Stephen Bergman (BS, economics, 2013), a security analyst for Hengehold Capital Management in Cincinnati, just learned that research he conducted as an undergraduate has been published in a…