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Edward Glaeser

Prof. Edward Glaeser Helps Boston Mayor Michelle Wu '07 On Assessing Incentives for Housing in the City

March 14, 2024

Professor Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and the Chairman of the Department of Economics, was interviewed by the Harvard Gazette for his work with assembling a team of economists to analyze the costs of creating tax incentives to building more housing in the city of Boston.  He was contacted to do so by his former student, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu '07. 

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Ludwig Straub

Professor Ludwig Straub and Alumnus Professor Ellora Derononcourt Named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows

February 21, 2024

Professor Ludwig Straub, Associate Professor of Economics, was among the list of this year's Sloan Research Fellows.  The fellowship is awarded to "early-career scholars" that "represent the most promising scientific researchers working today."

Also among the list of fellows is alumna Professor Ellora Derononcourt, now an Assistant Professor at Princeton...

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