Economics

Economics Department Commencement Reception for seniors and their guests.

Students from the Economics department will join students from the International Politics and Economics program to present their spring thesis posters.

Please join the Vermont Center for Behavioral Science Research on Climate and the Environment monthly lecture and discussion. Sponsored by the Vermont Center for Behavioral Science Research on Climate and the Environment.

Please join the Vermont Center for Behavioral Science Research on Climate and the Environment monthly lecture and discussion. Sponsored by the Vermont Center for Behavioral Science Research on Climate and the Environment.

Please join the Vermont Center for Behavioral Science Research on Climate and the Environment monthly lecture and discussion. Sponsored by the Vermont Center for Behavioral Science Research on Climate and the Environment.

Please join the Vermont Center for Behavioral Science Research on Climate and the Environment monthly lecture and discussion. Sponsored by the Vermont Center for Behavioral Science Research on Climate and the Environment.

Families visiting for Fall Family Weekend are welcome to attend. Despite the global uncertainty created by the 2020 pandemic, is it actually possible to understand what this next decade may hold?

Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and co-director of Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. Scott Rozelle will stay after the official talk at 6PM to discuss a Winter Term 2022 internship and post-grad job opportunities working at the Stanford Center on China’s Economy & Institutions (SCCEI). These job descriptions are posted on Handshake using keyword search: SCCEI.

Do smaller class sizes improve student learning? Does raising the minimum wage increase unemployment? Does teen motherhood cause poverty? Important policy questions like these are fundamentally about causality, and to answer them we need to move beyond “correlation isn’t causation” and figure out when it is. Professor Scott Cunningham will introduce students and faculty to directed acyclic graphs (DAGS), a powerful graphical tool that helps clarify the relationships between variables and guide theory-based research design decisions. No prior experience with DAGs is assumed.

The spread of misinformation is among the most pressing challenges of our time. New platforms for human interaction and information sharing have opened the door to misinformation, disinformation and other forms of networked manipulation, which not only mislead and create divisions, but also diminish trust in democratic institutions and ourselves. In this talk, I will focus on critical reasoning as antidote. I will pay special attention to misinformation that comes wrapped in data, statistics, and algorithms.