We are delighted to announce that three of our Project Leaders have been elected as 2024 Fellows of the Econometric Society, a prestigious recognition of their significant contributions to the field of economics.
Jerome Adda, Research Director and Project Leader at RFBerlin, Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, has a distinguished career with research focusing on Health Economics, Labor Economics, and Macroeconomics. His work has explored the impact of public policies on health behavior, the spread of diseases, and the relationship between income and health.
Sascha O. Becker, Project Leader at RFberlin, Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University and Professor at the University of Warwick, is known for his research in labor economics and economic history. His studies have been published in major journals such as The American Economic Review and The Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Andrea Weber, Project Leader at RFBerlin, Professor of Economics at the Central European University and co-editor at the Journal of the European Economic Association, is renowned for her work in labor economics. Andrea is also a Research Fellow at IZA and CESifo. In 2023, she was elected as a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Additionally, we congratulate David Dorn, Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich, who was also elected as a Fellow. We featured him in a podcast episode on the Handbook of Labor Economis, where he shared insights from his groundbreaking research on labor markets and globalisation.
This election to the Econometric Society underscores the extraordinary achievements of these scholars and their continued contributions to the global economic community.