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LIST, ET AL: NEW STUDY REVEALS NEARLY TWO-THIRDS OF UBER RIDERS NEVER TIP (2019)
PUBLISHED ON OCT 22, 2019 Even though ride-share company Uber launched the option to tip drivers over two years ago, recent research shows riders c...
November 22, 2023
HECKMAN RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS FRIENDSHIP AWARD FROM CHINA (2019)
PUBLISHED ON OCT 3, 2019 Nobel Laureate James J. Heckman, the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chica...
November 22, 2023
AKCIGIT RECEIVES 2019 MAX PLANCK-HUMBOLDT RESEARCH AWARD (2019)
PUBLISHED ON SEP 19, 2019 UChicago economist’s innovative research honored with €1.5 million prize; Akcigit will study Germany’s east-west divide b...
November 22, 2023
SHERMAN SHAPIRO, UCHICAGO PH.D. ECONOMICS, 1925-2019 (2019)
PUBLISHED ON JUL 11, 2019 From the family of Dr. Sherman Shapiro, who passed away on June 22, 2019: "Sherman Shapiro gained his Ph.D. in Economi...
November 22, 2023
SHAIKH RECEIVES RALPH AND MARY OTIS ISHAM PROFESSORSHIP (2019)
PUBLISHED ON JUN 7, 2019 The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Azeem Shaikh has been named the Ralph and Mary ...
November 22, 2023
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY TO PUBLISH MONTHLY BEGINNING 2020 (2019)
PUBLISHED ON MAY 24, 2019 The Journal of Political Economy (JPE) will move from a bimonthly to a monthly publication schedule beginning in January ...
November 22, 2023
HECKMAN STUDY: PRESCHOOL EDUCATION CAN BENEFIT GENERATIONS OF FAMILIES (2019)
PUBLISHED ON MAY 14, 2019 Early childhood education programs can impact life outcomes in ways that span generations, according to new research from...
November 22, 2023
MYERSON ELECTED MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY (2019)
PUBLISHED ON MAY 10, 2019 Roger Myerson, the David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies in the Harris School of Pu...
November 22, 2023
GREENSTONE, ET AL.: RENEWABLE ENERGY MANDATES REDUCE CO2 EMISSIONS—BUT AT A COST (2019)
PUBLISHED ON APR 29, 2019 A new working paper co-authored by Michael Greenstone and Ishan Nath finds programs which require a certain percentage of...
November 22, 2023
KENNETH C. GRIFFIN DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS WELCOMES NEW FACULTY MEMBER (2019)
PUBLISHED ON MAR 29, 2019 We are pleased to announce Max Tabord-Meehan will join the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics as an Assistant Pro...
November 22, 2023