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ALVAREZ ELECTED TO AAAS (2018)
PUBLISHED BY ON APR 18, 2018 The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics congratulates Fernando Alvarez on being elected to the American Academ...
DESHPANDE ELECTED MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE (2018)
The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics congratulates Manasi Deshpande, newly elected Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Shaun...
STUDY FINDS GENDER PAY GAP AMONG UBER DRIVERS (2018)
PUBLISHED ON FEB 19, 2018 Using a sample of over 1 million drivers, a team of researchers from the University of Chicago's Kenneth C. Griffin Depar...
USING FIELD EXPERIMENTS TO SAVE FUEL AND MONEY: VIRGIN AIRLINES NAMED A 2018 SUSTAINABILITY LEADER (2018)
PUBLISHED ON JAN 28, 2018 Using field experiments developed by the team of John List and Robert Metcalfe at the University of Chicago, and Greer Go...
UCHICAGO FED CHALLENGE TEAM WINS REGIONALS (2019)
PUBLISHED ON NOV 7, 2019 The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics is pleased to announce our UChicago Fed Challenge Team won the Regional Fed...
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...