Department of Economics

October 19, 2020

2020 Nobel Prize Winner Talk

You are cordially invited to attend a Zoom meeting hosted by the Economics department on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. The talk is about the significance of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Economics - Robert Wilson and Paul Milgrom.

https://rochester.zoom.us/j/95928843062

October 1, 2020

Virtual Conference: Racial Justice and Education

You're invited to attend an online conference on racial justice and education to be held October 23^rd and organized by the University of Rochester’s Bradley Policy Center. 

Education policy is central to making progress on addressing the profound problem of racial inequality in American society. With this motivation, the conference will focus on frontier research related to the causes and consequences of racial disparities at a wide range of levels of education -- from classroom experiences to access to higher education. The conference will feature presentations and accompanying discussions of new empirical work connected to this theme

October 1, 2020

Sawyer Grant

September 30, 2020

10/1 & 2: Ron Jones Conference in International Trade and Macroeconomics

The department will inaugurate the Ron Jones Seminar in International Economics with a two-day virtual research conference and policy panel. The program can be found here.

September 30, 2020

Policy Panel: Trade and Politics in a Post-COVID World

On Friday (10/2) from noon to 1 the department will host a virtual policy panel with leading experts on international trade and politics. The panel stream is here: https://youtu.be/b7Jw78ZjCjc 

May 4, 2020

Edward Peck Curtis Award

Armen Khederlarian has been awarded the Edward Peck Curtis Awards for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student

May 4, 2020

Pipeline Grant Recipient

John Singleton has been awarded a Pipeline grant from the Russell Sage Foundation for his work on Examining Underrepresented Students’ Access to and Gains from Selective Public High School Education.

October 8, 2018

Former economics professor Paul Romer receives Nobel Prize

Paul Romer, a former assistant professor of economics at the University of Rochester and currently a professor at New York University, has been named a recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

Based on a Career Center survey of University of Rochester graduates from 2016-2019, two-thirds of Economics Department graduates are working and one-third are pursuing higher education. Of those working, Economics majors are earning $68,573 and Financial Economics majors are earning $68,191. This compares to the average salary of all other Rochester graduates (both College and Engineering) from this time period, of $57,885.

The Department of Economics is ranked among the top in the nation. In fact, because of our relatively small faculty size, the department ranks among the top five on a per-faculty basis.

Rochester’s economics PhD program—in existence since the 1950s—was created in part by Lionel McKenzie, one of the leading economists of the time.

Our graduates are prepared for careers in business and government as well as graduate studies in business administration, economics, public policy, law, and more.