The Department of Economics is pleased to share our faculty's 2026 research contributions. With the year barely two months old, we have already seen publications across leading journals and edited volumes — spanning labor economics, development economics, antitrust policy, and sustainability.
John Kwoka, Tommaso Valletti, Confronting Consummated Mergers: An Inquiry into Policy and Practice. Oxford Law Blog, 2026
Modestino, A. S., Burke, M. A., Sadighi, S., Sederberg, R., Stern, T., & Taska, B. (2026). No Longer Qualified? Changes in the Supply and Demand for Skills within Occupations. ILR Review, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939251413182
Dupas, Pascaline, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. 2026. “Gender Differences in Economics Seminars.” American Economic Review 116 (2): 749–89.DOI: 10.1257/aer.20241718
Building Teacher Capacity or Outsourcing Pedagogy? Experimental Evidence from Science Education Reform by Nishith Prakash, Gomez, Vinay Jha, Sandeep Kumar, Santosh Gautam, and Soham Sahoo), accepted in Journal of Development Economics (pre-results review)
Wheels of Change: Transforming Girls’ Lives with Bicycles by Nishith Prakash, Ana Garcia-Hernandez, and Kritika Narula, forthcoming in The Economic Journal
Shaping Minds: The Transformative Effects of Theater-Based Learning by Nishith Prakash, Ritam Chaurey, Sara M. Constantino, Shantanu Khanna, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, and Raisa Sherif), accepted in Journal of Development Economics (pre-results review)
The chapter “Is Spirituality the Missing Component of Sustainable Development” by Madhavi Venkatesan and three Northeastern University alumni Andrew Burwick, Thomas DiGeso, and Justin MacLennan (all Class of 2024) has been published in the Springer Handbook of Traditional Spirituality and Sustainability (Eds. J. M. Luetz, W. L. Filho & D. Nunn, 2026).
Venkatesan, M. (2025). The contribution of university economics teaching to sustainability. In Filho, W. L., Newman, J., Salvia, A. L., Trevisan, L. T., & Corazza, L. North American and European Perspectives on Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer.
