economics

New UCI study finds minority dropout rates decrease when more fathers are incarcerated.

Irrational optimism or pessimism is linked to a majority of booms and busts occurring since the early 1970s.

Risks of laser-based uranium enrichment outweigh rewards, says UCI economist Linda Cohen.

Sarah Bana always knew what she wanted to be when she grew up: an FBI agent. “I’d read a lot of Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mysteries, and I wanted to save the world,” she says. She still does, although she’s going about it in a different way. A fourth-year quantitative economics major at UC […]

In a disheveled dorm room at UC Irvine, Brandon Gross — a freckle-faced college kid in flip-flops and Anteaters ball cap — loads up his backpack and heads out the door to his math class in differential equations. Nothing unusual here, except Brandon is a kid. A junior who transferred to UCI in January, Brandon […]