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The Bravo Center is currently accepting funding requests for research projects. Interested parties should submit an application by January 31, 2025. Please follow the guidelines for research grants at the Bravo Center. Applicants may apply...
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Congratulations to Sara Spaziani (PhD '24) for winning an Honorable Mention for the 2024 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation Award for her dissertation "Essays in Public and Labor Economics." Sara will receive her honorable mention at the 117th National Tax Association Annual Conference in Detroit, Michigan on November 15th.

Sara Spaziani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick. Her primary research interests are in public economics and labor economics. In particular, she studies how public policies and economic shocks impact workers, employers, and the labor market in order to inform optimal policy design and reduce existing inequalities.

Sara received her Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University in May 2024. Her dissertation, titled “Essays in Public and Labor Economics,” combines economic theory with the analysis of administrative and survey data to explore the welfare and labor market effects of government policies and economic shocks.

Congratulations Sara!
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The Bravo Center is currently accepting funding requests for research projects. Interested parties should submit an application by October 15, 2024. Please follow the guidelines for research grants at the Bravo Center. Applicants may apply...
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The Bravo Center is currently accepting funding requests for research projects. Interested parties should submit an application by May 2, 2024. Please follow the guidelines for research grants at the Bravo Center. Applicants may apply...
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The Bravo Center is currently accepting funding requests for research projects. Interested parties should submit an application by January 11, 2024. Please follow the guidelines for research grants at the Bravo Center. Applicants may apply...
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The Bravo Center is currently accepting funding requests for research projects. Interested parties should submit an application by October 5, 2023. Please follow the guidelines for research grants at the Bravo Center. Applicants may apply...
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The Bravo Center/JEA/SNSF Workshop on Using Data to Make Decisions will be held from July 19-20, 2023 at Joukowski Conference Forum (Room 155), Watson Institute (111 Thayer St.) at Brown University. The conference registration is currently open. Please register by July 10th....
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The Bravo Center is currently accepting funding requests for research projects. Interested parties should submit an application by May 5, 2023. Please follow the guidelines for research grants at the Bravo Center. Applicants may...
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Brown University

Professor Peter Hull Wins Sloan Research Fellowship

Two professors at Brown, in economics and physics, were among 126 scholars to receive the prestigious fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation this year.
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News From Economics

In Memoriam: Tony Lancaster, 1938-2022

Anthony (Tony) Lancaster, Herbert H. Goldberger professor of economics emeritus, passed away on December 10, 2022, in Providence, Rhode Island.
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The Bravo Center is currently accepting funding requests for research projects. Interested parties should submit an application by December 2, 2022. Please follow the guidelines for research grants at the Bravo Center. Applicants may...
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On September 23, 2022 the Bravo Center in the Economics Department hosted the Inaugural Workshop on the Economics of Algorithms. The conference was interdisciplinary in nature, with speakers from computer science to law to economics, and research topics included fairness, discrimination, and machine learning. Thank you to all who attended and participated in the workshop!
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