We are delighted to introduce our job market candidates for the 2025–26 academic year. You can learn more about them on our website: economics.nd.edu/graduate/stu... For more information about our students, please contact our Placement Director, Maciej H. Kotowski ([email protected]).

Former @ndecon.bsky.social major (Class of 2011) Steve Botsford is running for US Senate in the state of Illinois. Check out his campaign website: www.botsfordforillinois.com

New paper from our colleagues Melissa Kearney and Jim Sullivan, "Beyond the Myths: A Clearer Path to Poverty Alleviation in America." @aspenecon.bsky.social. Check it out: www.economicstrategygroup.org/publication/...

New @voxdev.bsky.social article from our colleague Heitor Pellegrina (along with Sebastian Sotelo). “Migration, knowledge, and comparative advantage: How Brazil’s March to the West Transformed Long-Term Trade Patterns.” Check it out: voxdev.org/topic/migrat...

Heitor Pellegrina's working paper, “Public R&D Meets Economic Development: Embrapa and Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution,” is highlighted in the November NBER Digest @nber.org. Check it out: www.nber.org/sites/defaul...

Great new paper from our former PhD student Beth Munnich forthcoming in the American Economic Review. Check it out!

Our grad students are in the Halloween spirit @ndecon.bsky.social

Congratulations to the members of our Fed Challenge team. Based on video submissions from teams in the region, they were just selected as one of three semifinalists in the Chicago Fed district @chicagofed.bsky.social. fedandfiscalchallengend.weebly.com

Out in the most recent edition of American Economic Journal: Economic Policy @aeajournals.bsky.social, "Do Medical Treatments Work for Work? Evidence from Breast Cancer Patients," from our colleague Bill Evans (along with Daysal, Pedersen, and Trandafir). www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

We have completed another semi-regular update of our featured faculty publications wall in the department. This go-round, we are highlighting publications from Taryn Dinkelman @taryndinkelman.bsky.social; Lakshmi Iyer + grad student @colesonweir.bsky.social; @cmatthes.bsky.social; and Davin Raiha.

Melissa Kearney was on @npr.org not once but twice yesterday! Go here for a longer conversation with Melissa on the "Here and Now": www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Our colleague Melissa Kearney was featured on @npr.org yesterday to discuss the economic implications of fertility declines. www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

Our colleague Jeff Campbell was recently interviewed by "Cheddar's Big Business This Week" about the current government shutdown. bbtw.cheddar.com/p/how-will-t...

Our dedicated staff have decorated the department for Halloween

ReStud Tour @reveconstudies.bsky.social

Our colleague Kasey Buckles is quoted extensively in this Newsweek article @newsweek.com @kaseybuckles.bsky.social www.newsweek.com/white-house-....

We are very excited to be hosting the Review of Economic Studies @reveconstudies.bsky.social North American Tour this coming Monday (October 20). Agenda below! restud-na-tours.netlify.app

Last week, we had a great panel discussion for our Women in Economics Club featuring our colleague Kasey Buckles, @kaseybuckles.bsky.social, and our former colleague Abigail Wozniak of the @oiginstitute.bsky.social. See below for some photos:

Our colleague Jim Sullivan, director of LEO, offered some commentary on Pope Leo's recent apostolic exhortation, Delexi Ti. Sullivan said: "the care of the poor is not peripheral to the Church, but central to her life.” news.nd.edu/news/jim-sul...

New @nber.org working paper form our colleague Lauren Schechter (with Agan, Doleac, Harvey, and Kyriazis), "Prosecutorial Reform and Local Crime Rates." Check it out: www.nber.org/papers/w34364

New IZA working paper from two of our colleagues (David Phillips, @phillipsecon.bsky.social and Patrick Turner) and one of our former undergrad students (Emily Merola). “Reversing the School to Prison Pipeline: The Impact of an Adult High School Program” www.iza.org/publications...

We have completed our semi-regular update of our Featured Alumni wall. This go-round, we are highlighting four distinguished alums: Henry Downes, Hannah Edwards, Gabe Gelke, and Anthony Kies.

Photo of our colleague Jeff Campbell and former graduate student Isabel Goedl-Hanisch at a @cepr.org conference in Switzerland.

Our colleague Larry Marsh (emeritus) was honored this past weekend at the Midwest Econometrics Group meetings for his visionary leadership. Larry was the founder of the group many years ago! midwesteconometrics.github.io/midwestecono...

Great day of tailgating yesterday!

Happening this afternoon! @artslettersnd.bsky.social

Work from our colleague Melissa Kearney is highlighted in the October edition of the NBER digest @nber.org www.nber.org/sites/defaul...

Yesterday, our colleague Joe Kaboski gave a presentation at a conference at Villanova and ran into former Economics major Gabe Gelke, now a second-year law student at Villanova. Here is a photo:

We had a banner year with hiring last year, adding 11 (yes, 11!) new full-time faculty members. Check out this @ArtsLettersND news story highlighting the new members of our community: al.nd.edu/news/latest-... @cmatthes.bsky.social

Hot off the presses at AEJ: Macro, "The Consumption Origins of Business Cycles: Lessons from Sectoral Dynamics" @aeajournals.bsky.social from our colleague Christian Matthes and Felipe Schwartzman www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Three weeks from today (October 20) . . . we are very excited to be one of the host institutions for the Review of Economic Studies North America Tour! Check out the schedule and learn more about the tourists here: restud-na-tours.netlify.app

Next week, @artslettersnd.bsky.social is highlighting this unique course from our esteemed colleague, Bill Evans.

Some photos from our Building Inclusive Growth Forum, happening now! @biglabnd.bsky.social

We are hiring (again!). We are searching for up to four tenure-track hires. Two of these are open-field/open-rank. Two are endowed at the full professor level -- one with a focus on applied micro and poverty, the other with a focus on demography.

Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social and graduate student Haley Wilbert (@hwilbert.bsky.social on the mkt) have a new publication in Explorations in Economic History, "Breakthroughs in Historical Record Linking Using Genealogy Data: The Census Tree Project." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our colleague Kirk Doran is quoted in this recent @wsj.com piece on the new H1B visa policy: www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

New @nber.org working paper from our colleagues Bill Evans and Ethan Lieber. "Prescription for Disaster: The SSDI Rate, Pain, and Prescribing Practices." Check it out: www.nber.org/papers/w34265

Some photos from this morning’s grad-faculty coffee time.

We are delighted to host Prof. Jane Ryngaert (@ndecon.bsky.social) presenting her paper "The Causal Effects of News on Inflation Expectations" at the @imtcd Virtual Seminar on Thursday, Sept 25 at 3 p.m. (Irish time). 🔗 Registration: forms.office.com/e/hYhCPCZ2Lp

Senior Economics major Andrew Brooks is a drum major with the Notre Dame Band. Yesterday, he brought his mace to class and let Prof. Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social hold it!

Really enjoyed talking with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social and Jennifer Loving from @destinationhomesv.bsky.social about what we know regarding homeless prevention and drivers of homelessness. A great opportunity to highlight some of the research from @LEOatND & @ndecon.bsky.social !

Some photos from last night's event featuring Melissa Kearney and Paul Ryan:

Some photos from our undergraduate picnic last night!

Very cool that our colleague Lakshmi Iyer, @biglabnd.bsky.social, was honored as a member of the Provost's "All-Faculty Team" at last weekend's home football game. Learn more here: provost.nd.edu/faculty-reco...

Happening tomorrow: "Bridging Theory and Impact: Navigating Career Paths and the Role of Research in Policymaking," a conversation between former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and our colleague Melissa Kearney.

New @nber.org working paper from our colleague Heitor Pellegrina, "Public R&D Meets Economic Development: Embrapa and Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution" (with Akerman, Moscona, and Sastry). Check it out: www.nber.org/papers/w34213

Hot off the press: "Strategic Mobilization of Voters," from our colleague Davin Raiha (with Holburn), just published in Games and Economic Behavior. Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Department is pleased to be co-hosting an event next week featuring former US Senator Phil Gramm. Poster with details below. All are welcome!

Our colleague Christiane Baumeister is quoted in this Financial Times @financialtimes.com article about current challenges for monetary policy and the Federal Reserve. www.ft.com/content/be70...

New @nber.org working paper from our colleague Ben Pugsley (with Ma, Qin, and Zimmermann). "Superstar Firms through the Generations." Check it out: www.nber.org/papers/w34194