CCPR Affiliate, Professor Yotam Shem-Tov, has been awarded 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship

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CCPR is absolutely delighted to congratulate CCPR Affiliate, Professor Yotam Shem-Tov, who has been awarded one of the prestigious 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships.

Sloan Fellowships are extremely competitive recognitions of creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments, with a handful of recipients selected each year from the best scientists in the United Sates and Canada.

Appointed in the Department of Economics, Professor Shem-Tov studies the criminal justice system, examining such issues as the effect of sentencing practices on recidivism and the impact of incarceration on employment outcomes. Often challenging the conventional wisdom and pushing research frontiers, his work has been published in leading economics journals such as Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economics and Statistics.  Yotam received his PhD in Economics from the University of California-Berkeley in 2019 and came to UCLA in 2020 as an assistant professor, joining CCPR in 2022 as an affiliate.