In 2015, then-undergraduate student Emily Gu ’17 and Professor Chad Sparber received a grant from the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium to conduct summer research asking how the occupational skills used by native-born American workers change in response to immigration flows to the United States. The resulting paper, “The Native-Born Occupational Skill Response to Immigration within Education and Experience Cells,” was published in a 2017 edition of the Eastern Economic Journal. In Spring 2020, the journal’s editorial board conferred the article with an honorable mention for its 2017–18 Eckstein Prize – an award that recognizes the best article published in the Eastern Economic Journal in a two-year period.
Emily Gu (Class of 2017) worked for NERA Economic Consulting for two years immediately following her Colgate graduation. She is now a Senior Analyst at Wayfair.