This fellowship is for graduate students preparing their PhD in the field of economics and/or statistics, preferably in the second or third year of their study. The fellowship should be awarded by the Department of Economics on the recommendation of its fellowship committee on the merit of the applicant’s work, without particular attention to the financial status of his/her parents.
Economists Wladimir Savelievich Woytinsky and his wife Emma emigrated to the United States from Russia in 1933. Wladimir became one of the architects of the Social Security system and was the principal economist of the Social Security Board, where he served until 1947. He wrote two books with his wife, World Population and Production (1953) and World Commerce and Government (1955). His autobiography, Stormy Passage, was published in 1961. The Special Collections Library in the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library at the University of Michigan houses Wladimir’s writings, 1905-1960.
Cristiano Carvalho
Cristiano Costa Carvalho is an Economics Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan interested in topics at the intersection between public and labor economics. His current projects focus on how tax and social insurance policies affect labor market outcomes. Before entering the Ph.D. program, he completed his master’s in economics at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. He also worked with impact evaluation in the financial sector and as aresearch assistant in projects analyzing labor market legislation in developing countries. His previous work analyzed how unemployment insurance induces strategic layoffs in developing countries.
