What's New
- Student Economic Association (SEA)
- Principles of Economics Resources
- The Institute for Regional Forecasting's UH Economic Impact Study
- Graduate Students on the Job Market
(09-10 candidates now available)
Announcements
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NEW PROGRAM STARTS SUMMER 2010: Master of Arts in Applied Economics
Demand for workers with backgrounds in economics is growing! In particular, those with strong quantitative skills will have outstanding employment opportunities in business and government. We have designed a 14 month master's degree program to allow you to obtain these valuable skills. The program will begin in July 2010 and includes training in methods that will make you competitive in this growing market. The program includes courses in economic modeling and forecasting as well as applied courses in energy and health economics; two very important markets in the Houston area!
Click here for more information about this exciting new program!
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Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Awards
Congratulations to Amelie Benear Carlton and Elisabetta Gentile! Amelie and Elisabetta are co-recipients of this year's Department of Economics award for graduate student teaching excellence. Thanks to you both for a job well done!
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UH Economics Department research featured in the Houston Chronicle
"Despite reports of crowded classrooms and hallway fights, Houston ISD students didn't suffer academically after roughly 5,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees descended on the district four years ago, according to a new University of Houston study."
"UH economics professors Scott Imberman and Adriana Kugler — along with Dartmouth College professor Bruce Sacerdote — credit HISD's ability to maintain funding and staffing levels as they absorbed Katrina students as one of the major reasons test scores didn't suffer. They reviewed data from 2003-07 for their paper, Katrina's Children: Evidence on the Structure of Peer Effects from Hurricane Evacuees.
The three professors studied test scores and discipline records for evacuees both prior to their arrival and in the two years following the hurricane. They studied Houston students' performance over the same span."
Read the full story here: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6614695.html
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