Recent News from IESP

• IESP Welcomes New Visting Research Fellow: Magne Mogstad, Ph.D.
  

Magne Mogstad is an economist at the Research Department of Statistics Norway, where he is involved in a cross-country research project examining welfare policies in terms of efficiency and equality. His research is primarily in applied microeconomics, focusing on issues of economic inequality and labor economics. While at NYU, he is working with Professor Matthew Wiswall, Dept. of Economics, on a paper that examines the effects of family size and birth order on children's education. Mogstad recently received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oslo.

• Mitchell L. Stevens' Creating a Class was awarded the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award for 2008. The award honors exceptional research in sociology and was presented at the Eastern Sociological Society Meeting in New York City on Feb 24, 2008.