UVA Economics

The Department of Economics at the University of Virginia. Follow our faculty:

[UVA Economics @UVAEconomics]

🚨 We are hiring at @UVAEconomics!

We have TWO Assistant Professor openings this year:
• Microeconomic Theory and/or Industrial Organization
• Applied Microeconomics

Applications are due November 10.

Apply here:
• https://t.co/AjPYl8dvNG
• https://t.co/Bu3naEHszs

[Alex MacKay @_amackay]

We have two Assistant Professor openings at @UVAEconomics

1. Industrial Organization and/or Microeconomic Theory

2. Applied Microeconomics (esp. Labor/Trade/Spatial)

Deadline to apply is November 10!

[UVA Economics @UVAEconomics]

Our colleague John McLaren had a chance to catch up with several of our graduate alumni during a conference trip to Korea last week.

📸 Pic 1: Ponpoje Porapakkarm, Yoki Okawa, Minjung Kim.

📸 Pic 2: Minjung Kim, Yoki Okawa, Hyejoon Im, Moonjung Choi.

[UVA Economics @UVAEconomics]

Our colleague @JonathanColmer is among the co-authors of a new chapter on climate policy evaluation in the United Nations Environment Programme's Emissions Gap Report 2026, released today.

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

The chance to keep global warming below 1.5°C with no overshoot is gone.

But urgent action can still limit the overshoot and bring warming back to 1.5°C by 2100.

Current policies, however, put the 🌎 on course for up to 2.8°C this century.

New #EmissionsGap Report: https://t.co/rGd9ce8tTv

[UVA Economics @UVAEconomics]

Professor @JonathanColmer and @jayshimshack are hiring up to two pre-docs this year!

They will start reviewing applications on 10/25; however, will continue to regularly look at the complete pool of candidates until the positions are filled.

Apply here: https://t.co/2XRwzkcnXb

[UVA Economics @UVAEconomics]

In @TheAtlantic, our colleague @emma_k_h and coauthor @NataliaHEmanuel explain why return-to-office mandates often fail to deliver the benefits of in-person collaboration, as employees increasingly commute to the office only to work remotely.

https://t.co/XfOnk2ENJF

[UVA Economics @UVAEconomics]

Congratulations to our colleague @emma_k_h and her coauthor, @NataliaHEmanuel, on the publication of their new book, In Person!

[Emma Harrington @emma_k_h]

Today, In Person is available wherever books are sold! I couldn't have done it without @NataliaHEmanuel.

In grad school, we were randomly assigned to the same basement office. That accident led us to become friends and coauthors —- now of a book.

[UVA Economics @UVAEconomics]

Congratulations to our colleague Charlie Holt on being elected Fellow of the Econometric Society!

https://t.co/zHp7h46GTA

[UVA Economics @UVAEconomics]

Our colleague David van Dijcke (@packlesshepherd) and coauthors discuss their research on the consequences of policy-induced refugee return, using Afghanistan's 2016 cash-for-return program.

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 Paying refugees to go home: Lessons from Afghanistan’s cash-for-return experiment

Today on VoxDev, Christopher W. Blair (@Princeton), David Van Dijcke (@UVAEconomics) & Austin L. Wright (@HarrisPolicy)discuss policy-induced refugee return: https://t.co/GgsqAL6Ztj

[David Van Dijcke @packlesshepherd]

Our return-to-office paper is now forthcoming at ReStat! We find that the tenure and seniority distributions at three large US tech firms shifted towards junior employees, with senior employees leaving at higher rates after an RTO mandate. (1/)

https://t.co/y9XB64G6wS

[UVA Economics @UVAEconomics]

Newly accepted paper by our colleague Alex MacKay (@_amackay) in the RAND Journal of Economics.

Consumer inertia can lead standard merger models to overstate the extent to which mergers raise prices.

Read the paper: https://t.co/y6fGCElhea

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Follow us on Linkedin, too: https://t.co/MK2SErNarz

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New report from our colleague Sarah Turner (@turnersarahe) on the future of graduate student lending after the elimination of Grad PLUS.

Private credit is poised to play a much larger role in how graduate students finance their education.

Read here: https://t.co/FiEW03O28j

[UVA Economics @UVAEconomics]

In a new working paper, our colleague @JonathanColmer finds that wildfires have long-lasting economic consequences for affected communities.

Read the paper: https://t.co/NAK2u6Zq7R

Read a summary of the findings: https://t.co/2ffcAYWGUj

[UVA Economics @UVAEconomics]

We are (back) on @X! This is the official account of the Department of Economics @UVA.