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News & Announcements

John List discusses value of field experiments in economics

“(Field experiments) represent a mixture of control and realism usually not achieved in the lab or with naturally occurring data.”

Children's early gestures have important link to school preparedness

Children who convey more meanings with gestures at age 14 months have much larger vocabularies at 54 months than children who convey fewer meanings and are accordingly better prepared for school, according to research at the University of Chicago published in the journal Science on Friday, Feb. 13.

SSD Events

The Life of the Female Mind: Gender and Education at the University of Chicago
April 1
through June 13
Center for Gender Studies
5733 S. University Ave