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Our top-ranked, STEM-designated graduate degree program unites a global community of students, scholars, and industry leaders committed to leveraging data science, finance, and economics to address society’s greatest challenges.

of UCLA’s MQE graduates secure post-MQE plans and are employed across a range of fields within six months of completing the program.

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Become Part of a Global Community

Learn from internationally recognized Nobel Laureates, policy leaders, and business executives, and engage with MQE faculty and students from more than 30 countries .

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Choose Your Focus

Complete your degree MQE on your terms — in 9 to 18 months — with a wide range of courses in data science, machine learning, financial modeling, forecasting and economics.

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Accelerate Your Career

Tap into MQE’s worldwide network of top-ranked financial institutions, consulting firms, government agencies, tech companies and global businesses to advance your career.

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Solve Business Problems

Through our Applied Business Projects , you can leverage the skills gained in the MQE program to solve business problems faced by corporations of all sizes.

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Be inspired, enlightened and informed

Learn directly from some of the most notable and influential economic leaders in the world through our Distinguished Speaker Series .

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“UCLA’s MQE program stands out because it teaches the skills needed for success today and in the future. While searching for a master’s program, I wanted to find a school where I could improve my quantitative skills and learn how to do research. MQE was the clear choice because of their emphasis on providing the mindset and skillset to succeed.”

– Steven Spear Jr. Current MQE student

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The MQE program will host our spring MQE networking mixer on Thursday, May 23 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. This event connects industry professionals and UCLA alumni with current MQE students. Industry professionals and alumni are invited to register here .

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We look forward to welcoming you to the program!

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Economics and Business

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Are you a critical thinker who enjoys using different approaches to solve real-world problems? Can you see yourself evaluating public policy or helping organizations make informed decisions? Or maybe you’re passionate about starting your own company. The field of economics and business may be a good fit for you.

Academic Majors and Minors

Here are some of the majors and minors available in this field of study:

Most Popular Majors

  • Business Economics

Intriguing Minors

  • Asian Languages
  • Entrepreneurship

What do you have access to when studying economics and business at UCLA? The city with the second largest economy of any US metro area ( USA Today , 2020) . And if California were its own nation, the fifth largest economy in the world ( Forbes , 2021).

Noteworthy Faculty

Here are just a few of the many professors in this field of study who’ve had a remarkable impact in their area of expertise.

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Andrew Atkeson

Atkeson’s awards include eight National Science Foundation grants. His research interests are macroeconomics and international economics, and he is the director of UCLA’s undergraduate business economics program.

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Pablo Fajgelbaum

A 2017 Sloan Fellow, Fajgelbaum has also received grants from the National Science Foundation and the United States Department of Agriculture. He enjoys teaching international trade theory at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Kathleen McGarry

McGarry, who served as a senior economist at the White House, focuses her research on the financial aspects of aging, including issues related to health insurance and transfers of resources within families.

Notable Alumni

Bruins have achieved great heights in all walks of life — health, sports, entertainment, public service, science and technology, and arts and letters. Here are some alumni in this field of study who have had a noticeable impact on the world.

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Guy Kawasaki

Apple software evangelist who ignited a creative revolution in personal computing

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Created LegalZoom in 2000, ShoeDazzle in 2009 and The Honest Company in 2012

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Rosie O’Neill

Co-founder and chief creative officer of Sugarfina, the fastest-growing confections brand globally since it started in 2012

Growth Careers in the Field

Here are a few examples of areas where this exciting field of study is growing and developing.

This field is expected to grow 20% by 2028. Companies are expected to have a growing need for actuaries to develop, price and evaluate a variety of insurance products and calculate the cost of new risks.

Financial Managers

As the economy grows, services provided by financial managers, such as planning, directing and coordinating investments, and specialties within the field should be in high demand, leading the field to expand 17% by 2031.

Management Analysts

Organizations continue to look for ways to improve efficiency and control costs. The demand for this occupation is expected to grow 11% by 2031.

Related Careers

Below, find examples of additional careers related to this field of study:

  • Account Executive
  • Business Manager
  • Cost Estimator
  • Financial Consultant
  • Merchandise Manager/Buyer
  • Personal Financial Advisor
  • Stockbroker

Testimonials

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Bruin Development Academy gave me the resources to navigate a career in consulting. I was able to network with various alumni/professionals across a variety of established firms that gave insight into the career path. —  Sewit Tesfamicael, business economics major

See What This Field is Like at UCLA

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Students meet and connect with a diverse range of employers who are looking to hire Bruins at career fairs on campus.

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One of the nation’s leading business schools, the UCLA Anderson School of Management offers a minor in accounting that prepares undergrads for work in the public and private sector.

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Adjunct Professor and UCLA graduate Terry Kramer lectures in a small, semicircle-style classroom, an interactive learning environment that allows students to engage easily.

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Bunche Hall, home to the Department of Economics, was named after Ralph Bunche ’27, the first African American and person of color to attend UCLA and to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Institutes and Research

UCLA offers many resources for deepening your knowledge in your chosen field, including hundreds of research centers, institutes and labs that encourage collaboration across disciplines. Here are a few of the many options in this area:

Startup UCLA

Through the Blackstone LaunchPad at UCLA and the Summer Accelerator, Startup UCLA provides a community in which students and alumni can develop and launch their ideas under the guidance of top entrepreneurs, investors and skill experts.

Von Gremp Workshop in Economic and Entrepreneurial History

With the establishment of the Von Gremp Workshop, UCLA joined a small number of leading universities with regular workshops in economic and entrepreneurial history.

UCLA Center for Economic History

The center seeks to understand the long-run trends that have led to current public challenges, including social security and pensions, immigration, economic and financial development and technological innovation.

UCLA Social Enterprise Academy

Since 2011, this award-winning program has helped over 40 local nonprofits by connecting them with undergrads who can help them identify earned-income opportunities. Training is led by UCLA faculty, alumni and industry professionals from the Academies of Social Entrepreneurship.

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UCLA’s new Master of Real Estate Development fills a need for smart stewardship of urban growth in Los Angeles, the nation and the world. Housed at UCLA Luskin Urban Planning and drawing on expertise from across the university and key industries, the MRED prepares professionals with the leadership skills, ethical foundation and technical prowess to guide cities on a path of sustainable expansion. With a foundation in social justice and an emphasis on key practical skills, the program immerses students in real-world development projects in the nation’s second-largest city, Los Angeles, a place known for innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit.

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From planning to finance to design, decisions about what to build and where to build influence equity and sustainability in ways that are often neglected in traditional real estate development programs. The UCLA Luskin MRED will pair ethical underpinnings with advanced skills in high demand in the real estate development field. The MRED is part of the UC system’s self-supporting degree program, aimed at addressing specific needs in the workforce. The degree will benefit students and professionals seeking advanced degrees, including:

Applicants with a bachelor’s or graduate degree, particularly in these fields:

  • Architecture
  • Civil engineering
  • Public policy

International applicants, particularly from countries with growing rates of urbanization

Applicants with at least two years of experience in real estate, urban development or related fields

Mid-career professionals seeking to advance in an evolving field

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The MRED program spans 11 months of full-time instruction, including an optional one-week boot camp bringing students up to speed on high-demand technical platforms used in project planning, spatial analysis and visual communication; three quarters of rigorous core and elective coursework; and a summer spent completing a practicum, conducted remotely, that immerses students in the challenges of executing a real estate development proposal.

MRED coursework provides a strong grounding in urban development policies and institutional processes, and calls on students to think critically about the future of cities.

Core courses will develop a strong foundation in:

  • Economics and finance
  • Market analysis
  • Land development laws and regulation
  • Development and design
  • New building technologies
  • Negotiation and consensus-building
  • Community participation

A rotation of electives will touch on topics including but not limited to:

  • Climate adaptation
  • Housing affordability
  • Zoning and equity
  • Age-friendly building
  • Innovative financing
  • Globalization
  • Big data and smart cities

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Distinguished and innovative real estate and urban development practitioners will join UCLA faculty in administering, teaching and delivering the MRED curriculum. Campus partners include:

  • Ziman Center for Real Estate, housed at the Anderson School of Management
  • Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
  • Institute of Transportation Studies
  • Luskin Center for Innovation
  • Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy

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The UCLA Luskin MRED meets a demand for professionals who possess both technical skills and a forward-looking understanding of the socioeconomic issues surrounding real estate development. Students will emerge prepared for positions around the world in:

  • Private industry, including development, management and investment
  • The nonprofit sphere, including affordable housing projects, land acquisition and financing
  • The public sector, including strategic planning, community development and asset management

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The UCLA Luskin MRED is housed within Urban Planning at UCLA, recently ranked as the nation’s No. 1 program of its kind. The program is part of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, a living laboratory of teaching and research at the convergence of the fields of social work, urban planning and policymaking. UCLA Luskin is known for:

Leadership: Integrity, equity, and justice lie at the heart of public affairs, and UCLA Luskin is committed to developing leaders equipped to enter the world ready to make a difference.

Collaboration: Our master’s, doctoral and undergraduate students value the unique integration of several disciplines within one School, an academic cross-collaboration that fosters a rich education and encourages fresh perspectives.

Resources: In addition to highly ranked degree programs, UCLA Luskin is home to numerous innovative research centers, and the region around us offers abundant opportunities to intern and work.

Diversity: At UCLA Luskin, diversity is strength. Our faculty and student body come from many ethnic, age, gender and socioeconomic spheres, creating one of the most diverse and interdisciplinary units in the entire UC system.

Family: UCLA Luskin is known for its supportive learning environment. Our faculty and staff enthusiastically share knowledge and inspire students to engage with the world through advocacy and research in public, private and grassroots organizations.

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Applicants to the MRED program must follow UCLA Graduate Division’s admission procedures . General requirements for admission include:

  • A bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution or international equivalent
  • A minimum grade-point average of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale)
  • Proficiency in English
  • Previous experience in real estate or urban development is recommended but not required

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  • UCLA Graduate Division Online Application
  • Application Fee
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  • Statement of Purpose – No longer than 1,000 words
  • Personal History Statement – No longer than 500 words
  • Three Letters of Recommendation

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Congratulations to History Undergraduate Student Lauren Heiberg (right) who has won a 2024 UCLA Undergraduate Research prize for her project, “Charitable Control: Regulation of the Poor at the British Lying-In Hospital.”  She is a recipient in the prize category: “Best project using resources from the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library”. Lauren wrote and researched her paper under the guidance of Professor Tawny Paul.

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Apply for Survivors + Allies’ Summer Fellowship ! This summer will be focused on coalition building, education, and policy work.

Applicants do not need to be an S+A member to apply for the fellowship.

If you’re not familiar with Survivors + Allies, their research report with recommendations, and demands for the UCs to better support survivors is here .

The (entirely remote) summer fellowship will run roughly from July 1 through August 31, 2024, depending on Fellows’ schedules. Expected workload is 10 hours per week. Each Fellow will receive around $1500-2000, we will finalize this by the time application decisions are made. Each team will decide their own hours and how they want to work together; the full Fellows team will communicate over email and do bi-weekly checkins to share updates. The UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center is generously funding fellowships and will work with Fellows to disburse stipends; please note that this process can sometimes take a few months!

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Legal/ policy development team : Identifying previous legislation that is relevant to our work/ we could build off; Identifying gaps in previous legislation where our research shows changes are needed; Drafting list of legislative priorities (based on gaps and our research) that Mobilization Team can use when reaching out to new orgs for the coalition and the Research Comms team can use to create policy and educational briefs; Examining what legislation can do vis-a-vis the UCs/ Cal States that have more autonomy; working with Policy Advisor to begin drafting legislation that we could show to nonprofits, policymakers, and student orgs in the fall.

Mobilization team : Meeting with nonprofit and community organizations in California to build relationships/ identify synergies; Identifying a “champion” nonprofit advocacy organization with experience doing policy work; Meeting with CARE offices to build relationships; Creating list of relevant student organizations on California university campuses that we can reach out to in the fall; Reaching out to faculty and centers of research who are interested in supporting our work.

Research Communications team : (1) Create policy briefs (in collaboration with Legal/ Policy Development team) that could support our research-backed arguments related to legislation, and trying to garner support from policymakers in the fall. For example, one of our policy priorities might be to mandate trauma-informed trainings for UCPD, and the Policy brief team would create a 2-page brief on this topic based on our and other researchers’ data aimed at policymakers. (2) In addition, create educational briefs aimed at other survivor advocacy and community-based organizations that can help raise awareness about our findings to support other advocacy groups’ work (including posts for social media, if time). Coordinate with CSW| Streisand Center to put research and educational briefs on website.

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Congratulations to the Economics PhD Class of 2024!

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The Department of Economics would like to give a heartfelt congratulations to the Class of 2024! At this week’s Commencement ceremony, the Department awarded 20 new PhDs. Welcome to the Yale alumni community and we wish you the best in what comes next!

“We are celebrating the graduation of our remarkable class of 2024. Their impressive achievements, showcased by their cutting edge theses, resulted in fantastic job placements. As they embark on their new endeavors, the Economics Department congratulates them on a job well done. Class of 2024 we are very proud of you!” — Yuichi Kitamura, Director of Graduate Studies

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Below we highlight the achievements and next steps of this diverse group of graduates. See here for the Economic Growth Center's article celebrating the Class of 2024, their achievements, and future plans. A full list of placement outcomes can be viewed here .

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Pedro Casavilca Silva

Pedro is an economist with a policy-driven research agenda in Labor Economics and Macroeconomics. His current research seeks to enhance understanding of how labor market frictions and credit supply shocks affect informal employment prevalence, wage disparities, and firms' performance. His  job market paper (Job Ladder Consequences of Employment Protection: Theory and Evidence from Peru) examines how employment protection shapes the incentives for both workers and firms to demand and supply informal employment and different types of formal labor. In addition to his policy-driven research agenda, he is passionate about teaching and mentoring, and was awarded a Teaching Fellowship Prize in 2021-22 for contributing to courses taught by Professors William Nordhaus and Kaivan Munshi. In the Summer of 2024, he will join Davidson College as an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department.

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Fernando Cordeiro

Fernando Cordeiro

Fernando's primary field of research is industrial organization, and much of his work has focused on higher education markets and productivity differences between public and private utilities. His job market paper, “College Quality and Tuition Subsidies in Equilibrium,” uses administrative data to gauge the quality of undergraduate programs in Brazil and studies how demand-side subsidies interact with the equilibrium level of price and quality in the Brazilian higher education sector. After graduation, Fernando will join Charles River Associates as a Senior Associate in its antitrust and competition practice.

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Alvaro's research interests include economic growth and development. He focuses on the role of human capital in inducing firm growth and the aggregate implications of education policies aimed at reducing the cost of access to higher education. Alvaro’s job market paper, titled “ From Classroom to Prosperity: Fostering Development Through Higher Education ,” assesses the contribution to Brazilian economic growth of the reduction in access costs to higher education with a particular focus on the implications for firms' growth as a mechanism. After Yale, Alvaro will join the University of Oslo as a Full-Time Researcher for the academic year 2024-2025; later, he will join Universidad Carlos III de Madrid as an Assistant Professor.

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Hanxiao Cui

Hanxiao Cui

Hanxiao’s research interests include matching and sorting in the labor market and the marriage market, particularly matching and production in teams. Her job market paper studies the complementarity of multidimensional skills in innovation and the skill composition of inventor teams, using novel data linking social security data and patent records. Her dissertation also examines how childcare policies affect marital sorting and household allocation in the long run, as well as gender disparities among investors in terms of life-cycle productivity and teamwork dynamics. She will join Capital One as a principal quantitative analyst this summer.

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Mirco Dinelli

Mirco Dinelli

Mirco's research interests include macroeconomics, environmental economics, and political economy. His job market paper, titled “ The Political Economy of Climate Bonds ,” investigates the interplay between government debt and climate change policy in a setting where voters from different generations have different interests. The paper finds conditions under which debt instruments can help stimulate climate change policy as well as circumstances in which debt is a hindrance to climate policy. In the 2024-2025 academic year, Mirco will be joining the economics department at St. John Fisher University as an Assistant Professor.

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Tan Gan

Tan Gan is a microeconomic theorist with broad interests in both theoretical and applied topics. Methodologically, he is interested in principal-agent frameworks, including mechanism design, information design, and contract theory, especially with robust objectives. Topicwise, he is interested in exploring the implication of digitalization on economic behaviors. Tan's job market paper, titled “ From Doubt to Devotion Trials and Learning-Based Pricing ,” studies the dynamic mechanism design problem of an informed seller of experience goods. In the fall of 2024, Tan will join LSE as an Assistant Professor in the Management Department.

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Daniel Giraldo Paez

Daniel Giraldo Paez

Daniel's research is in labor and public economics. His work explores the evolution in the last fifty years of labor supply among major demographic groups, with particular focus on the elderly and women. Daniel's job market paper, “ The Changing Nature of Work, Old-Age Labor Supply, and Social Security ,” evaluates the extent to which the increase in older Americans' employment rate can be attributed to changes in the nature of work and this phenomenon's implications for Social Security reforms. Daniel is joining the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Microeconomic Analysis as an Economist.

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Rodrigo Guerrero

Rodrigo's research focuses on household behavior and education in low-income countries. In his job market paper, titled “ Parental Death and Schooling: Gendered Spheres of Production and Parental Preferences ,” he exploits variation in the timing of parental loss to estimate a structural model of household consumption and time allocation in India. He finds stark differences in the impact of parental death based on the gender of the child and the gender of the deceased parent. The strict gender division of labor in Indian households and the differences in preferences for education of mothers and fathers play a crucial role in explaining the observed effects. After graduation, Rodrigo will join Analysis Group as an Associate.

Nghiem Huynh

Nghiem Huynh

Nghiem's research interests lie at the intersection of development economics, international trade, and spatial economics. His job market paper, “ Place-based Policy, Migration Barriers, and Spatial Inequality ,” uses a dynamic model and data from Vietnam to analyze how place-based tax incentives and reducing migration barriers affect regional inequality. After graduation, Nghiem will join the Department of Economics at the University of Oklahoma as an Assistant Professor in July 2024.

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Sid Kankanala

Sid Kankanala

Sid's primary field of research is Econometrics. His job market paper develops a quasi-Bayesian approach to estimate a large class of models in which observed economic behavior depends on several latent unobservables. Sid will join University of Chicago's Booth School of Business as an Assistant Professor in Econometrics and Statistics.

“This was an impressive cohort. Following Yale’s intellectual tradition of rigorous economic research, the graduating class produced rigorous and groundbreaking work across many economics topics. We look forward to seeing what they do next. Congratulations, class of 2024!” — Fabrizio Zilibotti, Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics — John Eric Humphries, Assistant Professor of Economics

Jaewon Lee

Jaewon’s research interests include Industrial Organization and Applied Econometrics. His current research focuses on proper inference in the context of demand estimation. His job market paper, titled “Computationally feasible identification-robust inference on discrete choice demand,” explores how to adapt a recent econometric method that is robust to weak identification to BLP-style demand models, in a computationally feasible way. After completing his studies at Yale, Jaewon will join Compass Lexecon as a Senior Economist.

Ryungha Oh

Ryungha's research interests include macroeconomics, spatial economics, and labor economics. Her research investigates why economic activities are concentrated across space and the policy implications of this concentration. Her job market paper, titled “ Spatial Sorting of Workers and Firms ,” develops a new theory of two-sided sorting where heterogeneous workers and firms sort across space and shows that cities can become excessively congested. Ryungha will join Northwestern and Becker Friedman Institute as a post-doctoral fellow before joining the University of Chicago Booth School of Business as an Assistant Professor.

Bernardo Ribeiro

Bernardo Ribeiro

Bernardo’s research interests include economic growth and innovation. He currently focuses on the innovation life cycle of technologies and how society allocates research efforts across technologies of different maturities. In his Job Market paper, “ Embracing the Future or Building on the Past? Growth with New and Old Technologies ,” Bernardo shows that only a small fraction of innovative investment goes into new, cutting-edge technologies, compared to technologies that emerged half a century ago. He then explores the determinants of this pattern and whether policymakers should try to change it. In the academic year 2024-2025, Bernardo will join Princeton University as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Economics Department. In 2025, he will join the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) as an Assistant Professor of Economics.

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Hiroki Saruya

Hiroki Saruya

Hiroki’s research interests include health economics and industrial organization, and his current research projects focus on the demand and supply of medical care and long-term care under capacity constraints. His job market paper “Congestion-Quality Tradeoff: Evidence from Japanese Long-Term Care Facilities” explores the tradeoff between nursing facilities' congestion and quality for producing desirable care outcomes, estimates users' preferences for these and other facility characteristics, and then discusses impacts of policies on outcomes and user welfare. After Yale, Hiroki will join the Economic and Social Research Institute of the Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, as a 3-year postdoc researcher.

Jihoon Sung

Jihoon Sung

Jihoon’s research interests include macroeconomics, economic growth, data analysis, corporate structure, and international trade. His dissertation, titled “Business Conglomerates and Misallocation: Theory and Evidence from Chaebols” explores the role of business groups—collections of firms owned by a single family—in determining factor misallocation and aggregate productivity. After graduation, he will join Konektis Capital Management.

Anthony Tokman

Anthony Tokman

Anthony uses tools from industrial organization to study the economics of cities and housing supply. His dissertation research quantifies the neighborhood-level stringency of housing density restrictions in over thirty U.S. metro areas and investigates the disparate effects of these restrictions on housing affordability and spatial mobility across the income distribution. After Yale, Anthony will join Charles River Associates as a senior associate in the antitrust and competition economics practice.

Allen Vong

Allen’s research interests lie in economic theory, particularly game theory and its applications. His current research focuses on dynamic games and communication. His job market paper, “ Mediated Repeated Moral Hazard ,” shows how a manager uses dynamic communication with a worker, hidden from the clients, to improve this worker’s productivity in serving the clients. Allen will join the National University of Singapore as an Assistant Professor.

Siu Yuat Wong

Siu Yuat Wong

Siu Yuat’s research interests in development economics focus on migration, both temporary and permanent, and its intersection with child development and climate change. Siu Yuat’s job market paper, titled “ Maternal and Paternal Migration and Children’s Human Capital ,” explores how maternal and paternal migration will impact a child’s human capital development, which in turn will affect future parental migration decisions. After graduating, Siu Yuat will begin a postdoctoral research position at Stanford University.

Wei Xiang

Wei’s research interests include trade, growth, and the environment. His current research investigates how globalization affects growth and the environment through technology diffusion and innovation. His job market paper, titled “ Clean Growth and Environmental Policies in the Global Economy ,” provides a dynamic framework to evaluate environmental policies in the global economy. Wei will join the Department of Economics at University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor.

Qianyao Ye

Qianyao's research interests include Labor Economics and Applied Microeconomics. Her current research focuses on human capital development, particularly the determinants of the development process. Qianyao's job market paper, titled “ Child Development, Parental Investments, and Social Capital ,” explores the impacts of social capital and parental investments on child skill development. After Yale, Qianyao will join Xiamen University as an Assistant Professor.

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Stanford storytelling and medicine scholars class of 2024, meet our team.

Marit UyHam

Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Marit UyHam is a rising sophomore at Dartmouth College. She plans to study biology and hopes to attend medical school.  At Dartmouth, Marit works in a biological anthropology lab which analyzes microfossils with a focus on prehistoric China.  Outside of class, Marit is involved in multiple dance programs, and she plays violin with the Dartmouth Chamber Orchestra.

Amal Sharif

With over six years of experience in healthcare,  Amal Sharif has dedicated her career to improving patient outcomes through innovative approaches. Having worked at Highland Hospital, a Level 1 trauma center in the East Bay, Amal has firsthand experience in high-pressure medical environments and understands the critical importance of effective communication and empathy in patient care. Amal holds a Mathematics, Psychology, and Economics degree from Laney College. Amal enjoys exploring her creativity through various artistic pursuits, such as pastel, and drawing.

Halle Boroski

Halle Boroski  is a senior at the College of William and Mary, finishing her degree in Neuroscience on the pre-medical track with a minor in Public Health and a concentration in Health, Society, and Wellness. Halle plans to pursue graduate school post-graduation before pursuing medical school. She is involved in W&M public health club, working at the admissions office and wellness center, and working in a research lab focused on learning and positive study techniques. In her spare time, Halle enjoys being with friends, reading, and walking in Williamsburg.

Meher Gandhi

Meher Gandhi  is pursuing her Master’s in Comparative Literature at University of California, Davis. She has a BA triple major degree in English, Psychology and Media and a diploma in folklore and cultural studies. Her interest in medical humanities, especially memory studies and cognitive poetics, guides her work in the intersections between literature and psychology. Her research internship with the Center for Memory Studies, IIT Madras bolstered in her the desire to move ahead in this direction. She also holds experience in publishing (including Penguin Random House India), literary festivals, and art spaces. Her other interests include writing and reading poems, teaching, and exploring art and architecture. She believes that her future research works will feature a trialogue between literature, psychology, and architecture.

Peter Park

Peter Park  is a 4 th  year medical student pursuing Psychiatry. He has a background in theatre and comedy improv and has integrated his interests in medicine and the arts through hosting local events for medical students to share their experiences on stage via Stethoscope Stage and HuMed Short Story Night in partnership with TCU Burnett School of Medicine. Additionally, he is collaborating with TCU in establishing the Narrative Medicine Consortium of Texas to unite Texas medical schools in increasing Narrative Medicine education. His work has been featured on The Nocturnists Podcast, MedMic.com, and Crohn's & Colitis Young Adult Network. Peter plans to pursue Psychiatry with interests in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Eating Disorders, and GI-adjacent Psychiatry. 

Keren Shafer

Keren Shafer is a rising MS1 at the John Sealy School of Medicine -UTMB Health-. She is pursuing a medical and master’s in public health degree as a stepping stone to becoming a pediatrician or OBGYN. She graduated with a Distinguished History degree with a double minor in Biology and Chemistry. Her interest in Historical writing includes women’s, Chinese, and medical history. She has presented her research at the College of Liberal and Fine Arts Conference at her Undergraduate institution; her most recent project was “Women in Medicine: A Look at Specialty Clusters.” She is now shifting towards immigrant narratives as a form of self-expression and ownership of her life experiences. Her hobbies include quilting, reading, and board games.

Tabitha Hiyane

Tabitha Hiyane is an English literature student at UCLA and an Opinion columnist for the  Daily Bruin . Holding a vested interest in the medical humanities, her archival research has explored how intimate narratives of embodiment, contextualized through health and illness, are both particularized and shared as part of the human condition - the very stories inscribed in the histories of our humanity. While continuing to grow as a writer, she plans on applying to medical school, aiming to discover and put into practice what it means to care for another in all aspects of being.

Nada Kaissieh

Nada Kaissieh holds a Masters of Bioethics from Johns Hopkins University and is currently advancing her medical education at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, working towards her MD. With over six years of dedicated involvement in mental health advocacy, she champions for the betterment of psychiatric care. Combining her expertise in writing and photography, she endeavors to reshape community and cultural perceptions of mental illness. Nada spearheads an ongoing project aimed at integrating mental health education into local elementary schools, striving to increase visibility and accessibility to support and resources.

Jean Chun

Soo Yeon (Jean) Chun is a rising junior at Stanford University planning to major in Symbolic Systems on the Neuroscience track. Since middle school, she has been fascinated by the creative, emotional, and linguistic capabilities of the mind. An aspiring psychiatrist and writer, she is deeply interested in the power of creative writing—particularly poetry —to guide and heal. In her free time, she enjoys drumming, discovering new music, and reading and writing poetry. 

Maria Luiza Fernandes

Maria Luiza Fernandes is a sophomore undergraduate student from Brazil. She is graduating in Pharmacy and plans to become a neuroscientist. Her research interests cover a range of disciplines under the umbrella of the pharmaceutical profession and cognitive science. As an Immerse Education fellow, over the past year she has worked on a research project on Alzheimer's disease, including the applications of gene editing in the treatment of pathologies associated with the nervous system. She is currently involved in a learning community on psychopathologies and an executive member of FLOTA, a project aimed at developing young female leaders around the Americas.

Robinrenee Hamre

Robinrenee Hamre is a sophomore undergraduate student at UCLA, majoring in Biology. She is a Native American student, originally from Anaheim, California. Robinrenee is passionate about studying Neonatology and pursuing a career in the medical field, in hopes to become a NICU Doctor.  Some of her hobbies are writing, running, and reading poetry.

Mehakpreet Saggu

Mehakpreet Kaur Saggu , a Pearson Scholar at the University of Toronto, is passionately devoted to making neuroscience and psychology approachable for everyone. Her journey into this field began with her love for literature, which sparked a sense of wonder and fascination with Oliver Sacks, and this ongoing saga of inspiration has continued to shape her work. From conducting research in the Decision Neuroscience Lab to helping establish a new Cognitive Science undergraduate journal, Mehakpreet's dedication to simplifying the complexities of the human brain is evident. She is grateful for the opportunity to merge her academic pursuits with her goal of bringing advanced science closer to public understanding. As a researcher, author, and advocate, she endeavors to share the wonders of the human brain, hoping to enlighten and serve the broader community.

Jess	Skyleson

Jess Skyleson (they/them) is a former aerospace engineer and Ayurvedic practitioner who began writing poetry after being diagnosed with stage IV cancer at age 39. Currently in remission, they’re now pursuing an MFA in Digital + Media at Rhode Island School of Design, with particular interests in narrative medicine, computational poetry, and sonic art. Their poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies throughout the US and UK, and they have been awarded the 2022 Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Prize, an Honorable Mention in the Tor House Poetry Prize, and were a finalist for the Yemassee Poetry Prize and Kalanithi Writing Award.  They are presently exploring the integration of the body, poetry, and sound, and one of their sound poetry projects was recently selected for exhibition in the New Media category at Brown University’s Ivy Film Festival. Jess facilitates creative writing and art workshops for patients, medical providers, and caregivers, and they are hoping to develop collaborative pathways across art mediums and personal/professional experiences of medicine.

Emily Koseck

Emily Koseck is a medical student at Queen’s University in Canada. She is currently working at Toronto Metropolitan University on the development of a new medical school with an innovative approach to education that will meet the current pain points in the healthcare system. Her interests include improving healthcare delivery and outcomes through bioethics, trauma-informed care, and addressing systemic biases. Emily enjoys being active, spending time outdoors, and volunteering at a wildlife rehabilitation centre.

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Professor Caro, known for helping Zara re-engineer its supply chain to become a “fast fashion” global retailer (and more profitable), is a renowned researcher who is highly published and frequently awarded for his work. His design of the MSBA curriculum is greatly influenced by changing markets and is engineered to produce the critical, analytical thinkers that the organizations of tomorrow need most.

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While more recently focusing on consumer targeting and analytic pricing tools, Professor Rossi’s Bayesian hierarchical choice models created the most widely used methods for analysis of choice and conjoint data used today.

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Consistently awarded the MSBA faculty excellence award, Bodapati ’s Customer Analytics course addresses marketing problems in value creation, value communication, customer acquisition, customer development, customer retention and the assessment of customer response to marketing. 

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A multiple MSBA faculty excellence award winner,  Mišić focuses on decisions in uncertainty, customer choice problems and machine learning-based optimization in his operations analytics course.

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  1. About the Ph.D. Program

    About the Ph.D. Program. The Ph.D. Program in Economics at UCLA prepares students for careers as economists in academia, business and government. The program combines rigorous work in economic theory and careful study of real-world problems and institutions. Graduates from this program work at major universities around the world, national and ...

  2. PDF Department of Economics Graduate Program Handbook

    Welcome to the Ph.D. Program in Economics at UCLA. The Ph.D. Program in Economics at UCLA prepares students for careers as economists in academia, business, and government. The program combines rigorous work in economic theory and careful study of real-world problems and institutions. Graduates from our program work at major universities around ...

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    The department requires nine upper division and graduate-level courses (36 units) in economics completed while in graduate status at UCLA. At least seven of the nine courses (28 units) must be graduate-level courses in the department, one of which must be Economics 207, 241, or 242 (see general catalog for course descriptions). Students must ...

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    The UCLA Department of Economics and its alumni Board of Visitors created the William Sharpe Fellowship in 2008 as a way to engage UCLA alumni in supporting the career and professional development needs of undergraduate students at UCLA.

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    Departmental information for Economics - Master of Applied Economics for the 2024-2025 academic year. ... follow the steps on our University's graduate application process: Steps to Apply. General application process for all UCLA Graduate Programs. Deadlines to apply: March 15, 2024. Admission Limited to: Fall. Exams & GRE Types: GRE: General.

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    Final Deadline for Fall 2025 Admissions. The final deadline to apply for Fall 2024 admission is March 15, 2025. The MQE program offers a bridge between finance, data science, and economics. Students can utilize quantitative analytical tools in various projects and catch up with the latest data science trend. - Zhihan Wang (Nanjing, China)

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    The Ph.D. Program in Economics at UCLA prepares students for careers as economists in academia, business and government. Graduates from this program work at major universities around the world, national and international government agencies, banks, research centers and in private businesses. Some of our graduates have achieved great prominence ...

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    May 23, 2024. The MQE program will host our spring MQE networking mixer on Thursday, May 23 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. This event connects industry professionals and UCLA alumni with current MQE students. Industry professionals and alumni are invited to register here. Congratulations to our Incoming Fall 2024 Cohort!

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  17. PDF Department of Economics Graduate Program Handbook

    Welcome to the Ph.D. Program in Economics at UCLA. The Ph.D. Program in Economics at UCLA prepares students for careers as economists in academia, business, and government. The program combines rigorous work in economic theory and careful study of real-world problems and institutions. Graduates from our program work at major universities around ...

  18. 2021-2022 Admission Requirements for the Graduate Major in Economics

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