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Students publish Massachusetts Undergraduate Journal of Economics

This spring a group of eleven undergraduate students published the first issue of the Massachusetts Undergraduate Journal of Economics (MUJE). This student-run, student-organized journal solicited, reviewed, selected, and edited papers from undergraduate students at UMass Amherst and across the state. The result is a stellar collection of five papers covering regional craft beer brewing patterns, Brazilian social welfare, the political economy of dam building, pensions in China, and compensation schemes. Volume 1, Spring 2013 of the MUJE is now available online.