University of Chicago: Department of Economics

Title

University Professor in Economics, Booth School of Business, and Sociology; Chair, Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics (at Chicago 1954-1957 and since 1970). Fellow, Econometric Society, 1967; John Bates Clark Medal Winner, 1967; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1972; Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1975; President, American Economic Association, 1987; Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, 1992. National Medal of Science, 2000; Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2007; Bradley Prize for Outstanding Achievement, 2008; Alumni Medal, University of Chicago, 2010. Many honorary degrees.

Recent Research

Analysis of worldwide boom in higher education, especially for women; old age support; investment in human capital and the family; the value of extending life at old age; human capital and technology.

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