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HECKMAN AND STOKEY ELECTED AEA DISTINGUISHED FELLOWS (2017)
PUBLISHED ON APR 17, 2017 We are very pleased to announce that the American Economic Association has elected James J. Heckman and Nancy L. Stokey a...
ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT WELCOMES NEW FACULTY MEMBERS (2017)
PUBLISHED ON APR 14, 2017 We are pleased to announce that Mikhail Golosov and Alexander Torgovitsky will join our department faculty beginning July...
PROF. JOHN LIST RECEIVES HONORARY DOCTORATE FROM UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA (2017)
PUBLISHED ON MAR 24, 2017 Department Chair John A. List, the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College, has b...
DAVID ROCKEFELLER, 1915-2017 (2017)
PUBLISHED BY ON MAR 22, 2017 David Rockefeller, PhD’40, a prominent philanthropist, banking executive and University trustee whose grandfather, Joh...
AKCIGIT AWARDED NSF CAREER GRANT (2017)
PUBLISHED ON FEB 23, 2017 The University of Chicago Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Ufuk Akcigit has been selected to receive t...
TIMOTHY S. FUERST, 1962-2017 (2017)
PUBLISHED ON FEB 23, 2017 The Department of Economics is saddened to announce that Timothy S. Fuerst, AM'87, PhD'90, passed away on February 21 at ...
VOENA RECEIVES 2017 SLOAN FELLOWSHIP (2017)
PUBLISHED ON FEB 21, 2017 We are very pleased to announce that Alessandra Voena has been named a 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow. T...
AKCIGIT, ET AL. MEASURE IMMIGRANTS' CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN INNOVATION (2017)
PUBLISHED ON FEB 8, 2017 In their new NBER working paper, Ufuk Akcigit and collaborators John Grigsby and Tom Nicholas study the "macro and micro-l...
JPE AWARDS INAUGURAL ROBERT E. LUCAS, JR. PRIZE (2017)
PUBLISHED ON JAN 10, 2017 The Journal of Political Economy has awarded the inaugural Robert E. Lucas, Jr. Prize to Boyan Jovanovic and Peter L. Rou...
STUDY SUGGESTS HYDRAULIC FRACTURING BOOSTS LOCAL ECONOMIES (2017)
PUBLISHED ON JAN 3, 2017 In the first comprehensive nationwide study of hydraulic fracturing's impact on local economies where the technique is use...