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Professor Andrew Johnston research featured in "Let's reform how we pay teachers"

November 13, 2024
An innovative study just released by the National Bureau of Economic Research confirms many of these insights. Andrew Johnson, an economist at the University of California-Merced, presented a series of compensation offers to teachers in a large school district in Texas. The offers varied...

EBM Student Kanchana Khat Receives Outstanding Research Presentation Award at 2024 SACNAS NDiSTEM Conference

November 13, 2024
Kanchana Khat, an Economics major with an emphasis in Economic Analysis and Policy, has been honored with the Outstanding Research Presentation Award at the 2024 SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Her presentation highlighted her research conducted within the UROC...

3 New Majors Meet at Crossroads of Communication and Science

November 12, 2024
Information – how it is shaped, delivered and received – is a thread that runs through three dynamic new majors at UC Merced. Communication and media; neuroscience; and science, technology and ethics will be available to undergraduate students in the fall semester 2025. The majors are centered in...

Interactive Database Tracks 116 Years of U.S. Housing Prices, Offers Insights for Future

October 2, 2024
A groundbreaking database that tracks 13 decades of annual changes in U.S. home sales and rental prices provides a clearer picture of economic shifts through the 20th century and will be a valuable resource for homebuyers, housing policymakers and the real estate industry, a UC Merced researcher...

Professor Rowena Gray Answers "What's Behind Merced County Rental Increases?"

June 13, 2024
“It’s true that jobs pay less in Merced but also that housing rents are cheaper there,” said Rowena Gray, UC Merced associate professor of economics. Gray pointed out that the impact of the minimum wage in Merced is more significant than in many other California communities....

SSHA Honors Outstanding Graduating Students

May 12, 2024
*/ Thirteen graduating students were honored by UC Merced’s School of Social Science, Humanities and Arts for outstanding academic careers. At a reception held May 9, Interim Dean Heather Bortfeld said the honorees all made their mark with significant research activities, exemplary leadership and...

Graduate Division Hosts 10th Grad Slam Competition

April 4, 2024
Who will UC Merced’s Grad Slam champion be? Cheer on the finalists on April 8 and find out. Graduate students from UC Merced’s three schools will take the stage to compete in the Graduate Division’s 10th Grad Slam finals. Grad Slam is an annual University of California competition that aims to make...

DC's Immigration Debate Comes to a Head

April 2, 2024
A lot is up for debate this week on Capitol Hill as immigration negotiations intensify, but one thing is clear about any deal: It's not likely to help businesses much. What many in the business world want are changes to make it easier for companies to fill worker shortages with immigrants,...