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ADVANCES WITH FIELD EXPERIMENTS 2016 CONFERENCE SEP. 15-16, 2016 (2016)
PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 12, 2016 The Advances with Field Experiments 2016 conference at the University of Chicago will gather a group of academics t...
LIST & LEVITT FIND UNEXPECTED PURCHASING PATTERNS FOR "VIRTUAL GOODS" (2016)
PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 18, 2016 Using field experiments, UChicago Economics' John List and Steve Levitt discovered something unusual about gamers' pur...
LIST NAMED NON-PROFIT TIMES' POWER & INFLUENCE TOP 50 INNOVATOR (2016)
PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 11, 2016 Department of Economics Chair John List once again has been selected as one of the Non-Profit Times' Power and Influen...
ROMER NAMED WORLD BANK CHIEF ECONOMIST (2016)
PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 11, 2016 "This position gives me a unique chance to learn about the thing that fascinates me most - producing knowledge that is...
SAIEH HALL RECEIVES FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HONOR AWARD (2016)
PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 11, 2016 Citing the adaptive reuse of the former CTS building as an “innovative model for campus planning, growth, sustainabili...
NEAL RECEIVES QUANTRELL AWARD (2016)
PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 11, 2016 "There's something in every class you take that could shape your future," says Derek Neal, one of this year's recipien...
JPE SPECIAL 125TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF ECONOMICS (2017)
PUBLISHED ON DEC 30, 2017 In commemoration of the Journal of Political Economy's 125th anniversary, the journal invited senior colleagues from the ...
HORTAÇSU, ET AL.: NEW COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES HELP PINPOINT 11 "LOST CITIES" USING ANCIENT DATA (2017)
PUBLISHED ON NOV 17, 2017 Using ancient data from 4000-year old clay tablets, new mathematical and computation techniques allow researchers to pinp...
LARRY A. SJAASTAD FUND WILL SUPPORT GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS (2017)
PUBLISHED ON NOV 13, 2017 A graduate fellowship fund in memory of Professor Larry A. Sjaastad has been created in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department...
LIST: CHARITABLE DONATIONS MAY DROP UNDER PROPOSED TAX REFORM BILL (2017)
PUBLISHED ON NOV 13, 2017 In a November 13 Chicago Tribune article, Prof. John A. List, Chair of the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at ...