Social Scientists Should Produce Policy-based Evidence in Their Research from the Start

Professor John List argues in his new paper to consider five vital signs to determine if an idea is scalable for the real world. By Sarah Steimer ...

Faculty Economics Announcements

Social scientists should produce policy-based evidence in their research from the start

Professor John List argues in his new paper to consider five vital signs to determine if an idea is scalable for the real world. By Sarah Steimer ...

Michael Greenstone Named Distinguished Lecturer for 2024 American Economic Association Annual Meeting

The Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, Michael Greenstone, has been named the Distinguished Lecturer for the ASSA 2024 Annu...

James J. Heckman, PhD analyzes the work of Piketty and Saez and income inequality

Michael Greenstone, PhD evaluates climate policy and a new powerful policy tool (New York Times)

Freakonomics’ Steven Levitt on the secret to making tough choices (Ep. 121)

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Big Brains: Freakonomics’ Steven Levitt on the secret to making tough choices

Of the academic books that have become household names, “Freakonomics” must be at the top of the list. The 2005 book by University of Chicago scholar ...

Freakonomics author: ‘Objections to data science in K-12 education make no sense’

Professor John List Awarded the R. K. Cho Economics Prize

The Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College, John List, was awarded the R. K. Cho Economics Prize by Yonsei Un...

UChicago Alum Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel Prize for Research on Gender and Labor

Pioneering economist, AM’69, PhD’72, uncovered key drivers of differences in paid workforce University of Chicago alum Claudia Goldin was awarded t...