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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...