Economics Department News

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.

Il Shan Ng ’17 receives first place in the MEA’s annual Undergraduate Paper Contest

Join us in welcoming two new faculty members, assistant professors Yaniv Ben-Ami and Ethan Struby, to the Economics Department!

What do basketball and square dancing have in common? For Pete Bakker-Arkema ’17, both helped define his Carleton experience.

Carleton 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?

Congratulations 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

This fall term the Economics Department welcomes 3 new faculty: Assistant Professor Jonathan Lafky and Visiting Instructors Shane Auerbach and Theresa Bauer.

Assistant 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.

Student entrepreneurs take top prizes at inaugural Start-Up Fellowship Competition

Professor Steve Strand will retire this term after 34 years of teaching at Carleton! A celebration in his honor will be held on April 8 from 4:30-6pm in Weitz236.