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Advanced Lecturers Christopher Makler received the 2024 Economics Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, and Scott McKeon received the 2023-2024 Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching Award.

The University of Zurich awarded B. Douglas Bernheim an honorary doctorate. Bernheim gave a public lecture for the special occasion.

Muriel Niederle was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024 for the excellence of her work in behavioral and experimental economics.

Neale Mahoney will begin his term as SIEPR's director on January 1, 2025.

Nicholas Bloom is serving as American Economic Association's co-vice president with Ebonya Washington, a professor of economics and international and public affairs at Columbia University, in 2024.

Professor Fuchs, pioneer of health economics, died on September 16, 2023, in his home on Stanford's campus. He highlighted the problems in the U.S. health care system and advocated for universal health care. Fuchs was the Henry J. Kaiser Professor of

Low employment rate provides the right timing for workers across industries who are frustrated by suppressed wages and loss of voice to go on strike, argues John Pencavel.

Professor Walter P. Falcon died on August 2, 2023. He was the former deputy director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, former director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Helen Farnsworth Professor of

In his new book co-authored, We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care, Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein propose a makeover of current health care.

Recognized for her achievements in original research, Monika Piazzessi is one of the six Stanford faculty elected as members of the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.