A new analysis shows that two thirds of new U.S.-born PhDs in economics have parents with graduate degrees, up from around 20 percent a few decades ago.

The vast majority of members lack an academic background in business or economics, according to a study by the Employment Policies Institute, a nonprofit group that takes a conservative stand on ...

How important is it to have an economics background to run the Federal Reserve? The FT's US economics editor Sam Fleming talks to several leading economists on whether being versed in the theory ...

The most widely held academic background was government and law (34.8 percent) followed by the humanities (20.9 percent). Science and technology accounted for 11.5 percent) .

Albanese squirms over economics background. Gift this article. 2 min read. 8:55AM April 14, 2022. Updated 9:14AM April 14, 2022.

But when she chanced upon an economics course during her engineering studies, she realized that economics was where her interests lay. Originally from Iran, Kazemi graduated from Simon Fraser ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel economics prize was awarded Monday to Claudia Goldin, a professor at Harvard University, for advancing the understanding of the gender gap in the labor market. Goldin ...