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  • Akcigit Receives 2019 Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award

    UChicago Griffin economist’s innovative research honored with €1.5 million prize; Akcigit will study Germany’s east-west divide by turning a new lens on data.

  • The Griffin Gift: "Our goal is to be the best department in the world"

    How UChicago is using Kenneth C. Griffin's enormous gift as "an opportunity...to change the world"

  • Heckman Receives Prestigious Friendship Award from China

    Nobel Laureate James J. Heckman, the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, has received the Friendship Award from the Chinese government.

  • Michael Kremer to Join Department Faculty as University Professor

    A pioneer in development economics who has shaped the discipline through the use of field experiments to inform economic models, policy and program development, Kremer shared the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2019

  • Nobel Laureates Bring UChicago-Style Debate to New Economic Policy Series

    Lars Peter Hansen, James Heckman welcome scholars for ‘deeper understanding’ of issues

  • Akcigit Receives 2019 Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award

    UChicago Griffin economist’s innovative research honored with €1.5 million prize; Akcigit will study Germany’s east-west divide by turning a new lens on data.

  • The Griffin Gift: "Our goal is to be the best department in the world"

    How UChicago is using Kenneth C. Griffin's enormous gift as "an opportunity...to change the world"

  • Heckman Receives Prestigious Friendship Award from China

    Nobel Laureate James J. Heckman, the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, has received the Friendship Award from the Chinese government.

  • Michael Kremer to Join Department Faculty as University Professor

    A pioneer in development economics who has shaped the discipline through the use of field experiments to inform economic models, policy and program development, Kremer shared the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2019

  • Nobel Laureates Bring UChicago-Style Debate to New Economic Policy Series

    Lars Peter Hansen, James Heckman welcome scholars for ‘deeper understanding’ of issues

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