socae

Thanks to all of our attendees who came out for #socae2025 yesterday! See you next year!

Congrats to our Best Paper Award winners! Sneha Nimmagadda (@USC_Econ) was selected by her applied micro peers as the Best Microeconomics Paper. Katya Gurkova (@UCLAEconomics) was selected by her applied macro peers as the Best Macroeconomics Paper. #socae2025

It was great to have such a diverse and talented group of presenters yesterday at #socae2025! Here are our presenters from the macro and micro sessions, representing @UCLAEconomics, @UCSDEcon, @EconomicsUcsb, and @USC_Econ.

Our #socae2025 participants have been engaged all day, despite some unusually dreary LA weather. ☔️

We're down to our last presentations! Ekaterina Gurkova (@UCLAEconomics) talks about human capital accumulation in Spain, while Shu-Chen Tsao (@EconomicsUcsb) merges ecology and economics in his paper on dengue fever. #socae2025

Minwoo Hyun (@EconomicsUcsb) talks about "dirty jobs" in his JMP, how the clean energy transition affects workers in the fossil fuel industry. #socae2025

Juan Nicolas Herrera La Rotta (@EconomicsUcsb) examines how a VAT on housing affects prices, quantity, and property size. #socae2025

Getting closer to our Best Paper awards this afternoon! Excited to hand these out to our best presenters from each session. #socae2025

Paula Donaldson (@UCSDEcon) discusses how and when heterogeneous exposure to GE effects biases estimates, and how to solve this problem. #socae2025

Riccardo Di Cato (@UCSDEcon) discusses traditional vs. modern Chinese banks and the effect of missionary education. #socae2025

Yangkeun Yun (@uclaanderson) shows some fun visuals in his presentation on the commons via the 19th century whaling industry. #socae2025

Kurtis Gilliat (@UCSDEcon) presenting joint work with Jacob Brown on the effects of peers on political identity, specifically within the LDS population in Utah.

Participants in our micro session enjoying bagels from Baked Bar in Culver City and listening to their colleagues present their work. #socae2025

Lapo Bini from @UCSDEcon talking about how global supply chain shocks affect business cycle fluctuations. #socae2025

Torsha Chakravorty from @UCSDEcon soliciting feedback and presenting her work on the role of brokers in public service delivery in India. #socae2025

Nicolas Fuertes-Segura from @EconomicsUcsb fielding lots of great questions during his presentation on friendship networks in Ecuadoran elementary schools. #socae2025

Janet Liu from @UCLAEconomics presents her work on the bond market in China. #socae2025

Sneha Nimmagadda from @USC_Econ kicked off our micro session with her JMP on beliefs and perception of child malnutrition in India. #socae2025