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DESHPANDE NAMED A 2020 WILLIAM T. GRANT SCHOLAR (2020)
PUBLISHED ON MAY 6, 2020 Prof. Deshpande was awarded a $350,000 grant through the 2020 William T. Grant Scholars Program. Her project, “Reducing In...
November 22, 2023
VAN DIJK AWARDED RICHARD SALLER DISSERTATION PRIZE (2020)
PUBLISHED ON MAY 6, 2020 Winnie van Dijk has been selected as one of this year’s two recipients of the Richard Saller Dissertation Prize, which rec...
November 22, 2023
DESHPANDE RECEIVES 2020 AEJ BEST PAPER AWARD (2020)
PUBLISHED ON APR 30, 2020 On April 28, the American Economic Association (AEA) announced recipients of the Best Paper Awards of the American Econom...
November 22, 2023
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HIRING UPDATE (2020)
PUBLISHED ON APR 27, 2020 We are pleased to announce that Joseph Root and Evan Rose will be joining our junior faculty. Root is an Economics Ph....
November 22, 2023
TWO ECONOMICS STUDENTS SELECTED AS 2020 TRUMAN SCHOLARS (2020)
PUBLISHED ON APR 23, 2020 On April 15, Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced the names of 62 college students from 55 U.S. college...
November 22, 2023
ECONOMICS OF THE OPIOID CONFERENCE (2020)
PUBLISHED ON APR 16, 2020 On Friday April 3, “The Economics of the Opioid Epidemic” conference brought together faculty, research professionals, a...
November 22, 2023
MEDIA MENTION: MICHAEL GREENSTONE ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND CORONAVIRUS STIMULUS (2020)
PUBLISHED ON MAR 24, 2020 "We can both stimulate the economy ... and we can lay the foundation for a lower-carbon future," says University of Chica...
November 22, 2023
POSTPONED: MOGSTAD TO SPEAK AT HARPER LECTURE SERIES MARCH 19 (2020)
PUBLISHED ON FEB 20, 2020 Chicago Harper Lecture: Inequality in the Labor Market: Causes, Consequences, and Public Policy THIS EVENT HAS BEEN PO...
November 22, 2023
AKCIGIT AND BONHOMME RECEIVE NAMED PROFESSORSHIPS (2020)
PUBLISHED ON JAN 1, 2020 The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics is pleased to announce two of our faculty have received named professorship...
November 22, 2023
ALI HORTAÇSU AWARDED KOÇ UNIVERSITY RAHMI M. KOÇ MEDAL OF SCIENCE (2021)
PUBLISHED ON NOV 30, 2021 The UChicago economist’s work has focused on assessing the efficiency of markets. By Sarah Steimer “It's easy to ge...
November 22, 2023