The New York Fed’s Research and Statistics Group is currently looking for research analysts and summer analysts starting in the summer of 2023. Current juniors and seniors are encouraged to apply. Analysts play an integral role in the research and policy work of New York Fed economists on topics including macroeconomics, Read more…
Eden Volkov is a Research Associate at the Employee Benefit Research Institute. She earned her bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Mathematics, and a master’s degree in Economics at Hunter College. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Davis.Dr. Volkov’s research interests include the effects of employer Read more…
Sangita is a development economist and demographer, and her research focuses on population health, the environment, and social inequality in India. Sangita has lived and worked on and off in India since 2009, and is a research fellow at r.i.c.e., a non-profit research organization which aims to inform child health policy Read more…
Three Hunter students presented their work at the 86th Annual Meeting held by the Midwest Economics Association (MEA) in Minneapolis, MN during March 2022. PhD student Chuxin Liu presented her research paper “Extreme Temperature and Maternal Health” in the “Maternal Support, Fertility, and Children” session. Her paper studies heterogenous effects Read more…
We would like to congratulate accounting student Tatiana Vargas-Caba for receiving a Summer 2022 Start Internship from PwC, one of the Big Four accounting firms. Tatiana is currently a sophomore, and anticipates graduating in 2024. Tatiana graduated from City College with a B.A. in English Literature. She was inspired to Read more…
Congratulations to Professor Monica Deza, whose paper “Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, Opioid Abuse, and Crime” has received the 2021 Georgescu-Roegen Prize from the Southern Economic Association (SEA). The SEA awards this prize each year for the best academic article published in the Southern Economic Journal. In this paper, Deza et Read more…
Nouhoum Traoré, PhD is the 2021 recipient of the Carl K. Eicher Award from the International Association of Agricultural Economists for best doctoral dissertation on a topic related to African development. Traoré’s work takes a novel approach to observing the effects of climate change and trade disruptions in Côte d’Ivoire Read more…
As of August 23, 2021 the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine was given full FDA approval for individuals aged 16 and older. All students now have until September 27 to upload proof of vaccination into CUNYfirst. Students who fail to upload their proof of vaccination by September 27 will be subject to Read more…
The Economics Department is excited to welcome students and faculty back to campus. We know that for many students, this past year posed unique challenges with online learning, and we remain optimistic that a gradual return to campus is a sign of a long-awaited return to normalcy. This semester, the Read more…
6/14/21. Congress introduced bipartisan legislation Friday to recognize accounting as part of the STEM programs in schools, as part of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics curricula. Read the full story here.