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Follow the Economics and European Studies in Cambridge Program
6 November 2018Check out the Instagram feed of the Summer 2018 Economics and European Studies Program in Cambridge as the group travels to Brussels, Lille, London, Manchester, and of course, Cambridge!
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Carleton Students Sweep MEA Paper Contest
2 October 2018Three econ seniors swept the MEA undergraduate paper contest, winning top honors for Senior Thesis, Term Paper, and Economic Communication.
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Assistant professor of economics Faress Bhuiyan publishes book chapter that investigates the sources of two types of self-reported mental suffering in rural Bangladesh: feeling worried and feeling depressed.
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Il Shan Ng ’17 MEA Undergraduate Paper Contest Winner
25 September 2017Il Shan Ng ’17 receives first place in the MEA’s annual Undergraduate Paper Contest
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Welcome to our 2017–18 Faculty
19 September 2017Join us in welcoming two new faculty members, assistant professors Yaniv Ben-Ami and Ethan Struby, to the Economics Department!
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What do basketball and square dancing have in common? For Pete Bakker-Arkema ’17, both helped define his Carleton experience.
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Quantifying Happiness
28 February 2017Carleton economics professor Faress Bhuiyan has joined the ranks of the many psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists who have sought to answer the question What makes us happy?
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Robert Krossa ’16 Wins the 2016 MEA Undergraduate Paper Contest!
14 October 2016Congratulations to 2016 Carleton Economics graduate Robert Krossa for winning 1st place in the 2016 Minnesota Economic Association’s Undergraduate Paper Contest for his Senior Thesis, “Skill Spills: A Cross-Skill Group Analysis on Wage Spillovers of Good Jobs”! His advisor was Professor Jenny Bourne
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Welcome to our 2016–17 faculty!
14 September 2016This fall term the Economics Department welcomes 3 new faculty: Assistant Professor Jonathan Lafky and Visiting Instructors Shane Auerbach and Theresa Bauer.
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Faress Bhuiyan’s paper published in Applied Economics
6 September 2016Assistant Professor of Economics Faress Bhuiyan and Radek Szulga (Lyon College) co-authored an article on the individual level determinants of happiness which has been published in Applied Economics.