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📣 The UC Davis Economics Department is thrilled to announce our 2025-2026 Economics Job Market Candidates! Learn more about their research below ⬇️

Integrating refugees: What policies work best? Last month on VoxDevTalks, @danybahar (@Watson_School) & @giov_peri (@UCDavisEcon) discussed the long-term gains of early, well-sequenced policies for both refugees and host economies: voxdev.org/topic/migratio…

New edition of the Summer School on the "Economics of Immigration" happening again this year at Casa de California in Mexico City July 20-24. Deadline to apply: April 5. More event info here: globalmigration.ucdavis.edu/summer_school3

Not Just Getting a Job: Who Hires You Matters for Migrant Integration by Alessandro Caiumi @ale_caiumi (University of California, Davis @UCDavisEcon ) is now live on The Economic Misfit (@EconomicMisfit ) Read more here: theeconomicmisfit.com/2026/02/18/not…

Integrating refugees: What policies work best? Last week on VoxDevTalks, @danybahar (@Watson_School) & @giov_peri (@UCDavisEcon) discussed the long-term gains of early, well-sequenced policies for both refugees and host economies: voxdev.org/topic/migratio…

🆕 Integrating refugees: What policies work best? Today on #VoxDevTalks w/ @timsvengali, @danybahar (@Watson_School) & @giov_peri (@UCDavisEcon) discuss the long-term gains of early, well-sequenced policies for both refugees and host economies. 🔗 Link below ⤵️

What policies successfully integrate refugees? Don’t stop them from taking paid work @danybahar @BrownUniversity and @giov_peri @UCDavisEcon warn @timsvengali in this weeks’ podcast, “They feel more valued if they can work. They want to work.” Listen here: voxdev.org/talks

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP21106 Misallocation in Firm Production: A Nonparametric Analysis Using Procurement Lotteries Paul Carrillo @GWUEconomics @GWtweets, Dave Donaldson @MITEcon @MIT, Dina Pomeranz @DinaPomeranz @UZH_en @econ_uzh, Monica Singhal @ucdavis @UCDavisEcon @UCDavisEcon ow.ly/Lh4c50Y61OE #CEPR_MG #CEPR_PE #EconTwitter

A Refugee shelter in my neighborhood!? Depends. Who, exactly, is inside? by Carlos Brito @Carlos_H_Brito (@UCDavisEcon) is now live on The Economic Misfit ( @EconomicMisfit ) Read more: theeconomicmisfit.com/2026/01/29/a-r…

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP21099 Marriage and the Intergenerational Mobility of Women: Evidence from Marriage Certificates 1850-1920 Katherine Eriksson @ucdavis @UCDavisEcon, Gregory T. Niemesh @MiamiUniversity, Myera Rashid @NorthwesternU , Jacqueline Craig @MiamiUniversity ow.ly/PksI50Y60aQ #CEPR_EH #EconTwitter

17 Dec @17:00 CET International Macro History Online Seminar #IMHOS ep. 104 🗣️Christopher Meissner @ucdavis @UCDavisEcon presents 'Did Tariffs Make US Manufacturing Great? New Evidence from the Gilded Age' Chair: Rui Esteves @GVAGrad ✍️ ow.ly/UHsv50XHkCS

Trade barriers appear to hurt consumers a little or a lot, depending on economic model & parameters. Our economist Mike Waugh/@tradewartracker & @InaSimonovska of @UCDavisEcon use actual bilateral price data to pin down the welfare effect of int'l trade. bit.ly/3LWi2nC

Marianne Bitler quoted on article about SNAP ucdavis.edu/news/beyond-sh…

Jeff K.W. Cheung is an international macroeconomist studying how global financial markets propagate and amplify international monetary spillovers, with a focus on financial frictions arising from the currency denomination of sovereign debt. Learn more: jeffkinwaicheung.com

Yuan’s research focuses on econometric theory and its applications in applied microeconomics. 🔗 Learn more: yua-tuo.github.io

📣 The UC Davis Economics Department is thrilled to announce our 2025-2026 Economics Job Market Candidates! Learn more about their research below ⬇️