Students in the Department of Economics are given accounts on one of the Unix servers managed by the Department, which provides support for computationally intensive applications such as Stata, MATLAB ...

When David Autor co-wrote a paper on how computerization affects job skill demands more than 20 years ago, a journal took 18 months to consider it — only to reject it after review. He went on to ...

We use nearly four decades of U.S. county data to study dynamic local economic impacts of natural disasters that trigger federal aid. We find these disasters on average raise personal income per ...

A PhD in Economics consists of two years of coursework, followed by a thesis which is expected to take three years. The coursework requirement involves three PhD-level core courses in microeconomics, ...

Northwestern University professor Joel Mokyr was among three people awarded the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for their research into technological progress and economic growth.

The internet is home to essentially the entire collective history of human knowledge. That, needless to say, is more information than it's possible to process. Search engines, mercifully, have made it ...

Their work was credited with helping economists better understand how new ideas and inventions come about — a process as old ...

More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved, a study of more than seven million digital publications suggests. The findings, published in the Journal of ...

In early February Openai, the world’s most famous artificial-intelligence firm, released Deep Research, which is “designed to perform in-depth, multi-step research”. With a few strokes of a keyboard, ...

UC Riverside has shut down its economics research center after some University of California faculty urged an investigation into an arrangement with private consulting firm Beacon Economics to run the ...