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Welcome to the Department of Economics at Tufts University!
Please explore our website and learn more about our department's
people, programs (undergraduate and graduate), and activities.
Enrico Spolaore
Chair, Department of Economics
Department to Offer New M.S. in Economics:
We are thrilled to announce a significant upgrade and strengthening
of our graduate program. Starting in 2010 the Department of Economics will
offer a new Master of Science in Economics, with two tracks.
The Department will award course-based M.S. degrees to be completed in
one year, without a thesis, and research-based M.S. degrees to be completed in two years, with a master's thesis. The course-based M.S.
will replace the current M.A. degree.
New Faculty:
Department Highlights:
We are delighted to announce that Jeff Zabel has been promoted to Full Professor of Economics.
Professor Zabel has done path-breaking research in the areas of urban and housing economics,
education, environmental economics, and welfare analysis.
To learn more about Professor Zabel's work,
click here.
NEUDC Conference at Tufts:
On November 7 and 8 the Economics Department at Tufts hosted the 2009 Northeast
Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference, a major
forum in development economics rotating among the organizing
institutions (BU, Brown, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Williams, and
Yale).
Click here for more information.
In The Media:
Enrico Spolaore was one of the keynote speakers
at the Australasian Public Choice Society Meetings in Melbourne, Australia.
For coverage of his presentation click
here. Spolaore’s research was also featured on Australian radio on
ABC Radio National.(You may click
here to download the audio.) Spolaore’s research was also featured in the
Australian Financial Review.
Gilbert Metcalf
interviewed by CNN American Morning on "Climate Change and Your Wallet".
Jenny Aker's research on the economic effects of cell phones in Africa reported on
PBS and in
The Economist.
Maggie McMillan interviewed by CNN about child labor farmers.
Read the article.
Enrico Spolaore's research on
the roots of international conflict has been featured in Newsweek
(Russian edition) and Vanity Fair (Italian edition).
Read the
Newsweek article
(in Russian) and the
Vanity Fair article (in Italian).
"Vox” recently featured editorials by three of our faculty
members: an article by
Gilbert Metcalf on
tax policies for low-carbon energy, an article by
Enrico Spolaore on
the relation between kinship and international conflict,
and an article by Maggie McMillan on
international trade, offshoring, and US wages.
Thomas Downes' and
Jeffrey Zabel’s research report on education reform titled
"Incomplete Grade: Massachusetts Education Reform at 15"
has recently been cited in the
Boston Globe,
Boston Herald, the
Patriot Ledger,
Metro West Daily News,
as well as several other news outlets.
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