Faculty News

  • Lakes Development Economics Workshop
    3/10/25
    The workshop consists of a small set of presentations on development economics topics. The workshop brings together a network of development economics scholars from Western New York, Southern Ontario, the Finger Lakes region, and surrounding areas. In contrast to larger conferences, we aim to devote a longer amount of time to a small set of presentations to promote discussion.
  • Faculty Spotlight - Opinder Kaur
    10/6/23
    Professor Opinder Kaur is an applied microeconomist with research interests in labor economics, development economics, health economics, and the economics of education. She received her PhD from the University of California Riverside
  • Adding more road capacity decreases congestion and increases distance traveled
    6/29/23
    Adding more road capacity decreases congestion and increases distance traveled
  • Prof. Anas wins the Richard J. Arnott Overall Best Paper Prize
    6/23/23
    The paper corrects a major misconception and misspecification of how traffic congestion affects aggregate distance traveled, arising from an empirical study by Gilles Duranton (University of Pennsylvania) and Matthew Turner (Brown) published in 2011 in the American Economic Review and gathering over 1000 citations.
  • In Memoriam - Dr Winston Chang, December 16, 2021
    7/5/22
    It is with sadness that I share with you that Winston Chang, professor in the Department of Economics, passed away on December 16, 2021.
  • Why Commute Times Don't Change Much Even as a City Grows
    10/6/21
    For as much as U.S. metros have grown over the past few decades, commute times have remained oddly stable. One-way commutes averaged 21.7 minutes in 1980 and 25.3 minutes in 2010.
  • States that are Recovering the Quickest from COVID-19
    9/14/21
    #ASKTHEXPERTS consulted Dr Mclaughlin on the timeline for the nation during the COVID-19 recovery.