Vassar Economics

11/06/2019

ECON MEET ‘N’ GREET
Are you thinking about becoming an econ major? Come meet the majors’ committee, some faculty members, and other prospective majors on Wednesday, November 20th at 3:30PM in the Economics Lounge in Blodgett Hall.

10/16/2019

The annual department picture.

(Missing: David Kennett)

05/13/2019

04/08/2019

Join professors from STEM fields and students for dinner and conversation at this event focused on mentorship and connections between underrepresented gender identities in the STEM fields at Vassar.

11/07/2018

Annual faculty yearbook picture.
Missing: Ben Ho; Paul Johnson, Esteban Argudo and Alicia Atwood.

05/10/2018

10/25/2017

Economics dept. faculty yearbook photograph 2017. David Kennett, Ben Ho and Evsen Turkay were missed.

05/17/2017

04/10/2017

This year's Crego lecture will be delivered by Betsey Stevenson (U. Michigan) on April 20th, 5 pm, Taylor Hall 203. Dr. Stevenson's research focuses on women's labor market experiences and the economic forces affecting today's families. The lecture is open to the public.

The 2017 Martin H. Crego Lecture in Economics will be delivered by University of Michigan economist Betsey Stevenson. Stevenson’s lecture, “Our Changing Lives, Work, Family and Policy in a Time of Gender Equality,” will draw from her research as a labor economist with a focus on women and families.

11/17/2016

Vassar College graduate, class of 2005, and economics major Erick Sager - now a research economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics talks about macroeconomic modeling under the new presidency.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/how-the-white-house-could-justify-a-debt-driven-keynesian-stimulus

When Washington argues about fiscal policy, it’s really fighting over models.

08/10/2016

Focus on Ford Scholars research - read about Prof. Dustin Frye's work with Courtney Geiss.
http://admissions.vassar.edu/about/stories/features/2015-2016/160728-ford-courtney-geiss%20.html

As a result of the Dawes Act of 1887, 90 million acres of Native American reservation lands in the West were sold to non-Indians. Ford scholar Courtney Geiss ’18 is researching federal records to study the role played by the federal agents who enforced the law.

05/20/2016

Economics dept. t-shirts are on sale for $10 (cash only). Please contact Ms. Sue Conger in her office (Blodgett 129) if you want to make a purchase.