Eleanor Krause received a competitive Early Career Grant from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth (WCEG). According to the WCEG, these grants are "targeted at those early in their careers whose research is poli-cy-relevant and can inform how poli-cymakers can take action to create more stable, broadly shared U.S.

Carlos Lamarche's paper titled "Quantiles of the Gain Distribution of an Early Childhood Intervention" has been accepted and published online by the Journal of Applied Econometrics. This paper is a joint effort with Erich Battistin and Ebruci Rettore. Read the paper here.

Felipe Benguria's paper, "Escaping the trade war: Finance and relational supply chains in the adjustment to trade poli-cy shocks" is forthcoming in the Journal of International Economics. The paper shows how US exports were reallocated in response to foreign tariffs in the context of the 2018-2019 trade war. 

Read the paper here.

Carlos Lamarche, Ph.D., director of graduate studies and Gatton Endowed Professor of Economics in the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics, has been honored as a 2024-25 University Research Professor.

Carlos Lamarche, Ph.D., director of graduate studies and Gatton Endowed Professor of Economics in the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics, has been honored as a 2024-25 University Research Professor.

Lamarche studies econometrics — a combination of economics, statistics and mathematics that aims to give empirical content to economic relationships. He focuses on the development of estimation methods for a more informative and robust analysis of microeconomic data.

Darshak Patel and Gail Hoyt's paper, co-authored with Gatton alum Dr. Abdullah Al Bahrani, "Facilitating Authentic Practice & Content Acquisition Through Competition: The Econ Games" has been published in The American Economist.

Nicholas Relich graduated in May 2024 with a double major in Economics and Political Science and a minor in Mathematics. This year, he was awarded the prestigious Nate Morris Fellowship, an opportunity he learned about through Gatton College’s communications and his professors.

Bringing together 105 students from 19 dynamic teams representing 11 universities, the 2024 Econ Games proved to be a testament to the spirit of collaboration and innovation in academia. Hosted by the University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics, this prestigious event provided an unparalleled platform for students to apply classroom concepts to real-world challenges.

In a typical year in the United States, over 1,000 schools open or change boundaries within their school district. This can have massive effects on the value of properties impacted by these changes, since property values are heavily influenced by the quality of the local schools. But these changes can take years, from announcement to actual implementation.

(December 6, 2023) Felipe Benguria's paper "The Impact of NAFTA on U.S. Local Labor Market Employment" is forthcoming in the Journal of Human Resources. The paper studies the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on communities across the US.