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In the News Economics COVID-19

AJC - Front-line workers this Labor Day: essential, but not secure, Asst. Prof Simon Mongey discusses Covid-19 job losses and the communities most impacted by them

Announcements Economics

Emails worth $100 million: Economists use ‘nudges’ to increase tax compliance

This article was originally published by UChicago News. Read the story on their site here. UChicago researchers boost tax revenues in Dominican Rep...

Announcements Faculty Economics

Nobel-winning economist Michael Kremer to join UChicago faculty as University Professor

Development economist appointed to Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Kremer has been appointed Unive...

In the News Economics COVID-19

The Hill: We must learn from the shutdown mistake, data from Prof. Casey Mulligan estimates daily cumulative costs of pandemic have been $1.3 trillion in total

In the News COVID-19 Economics

The Hill: COVID-19 reveals how economists sometimes forget economics, Study from Prof. Michael Greenstone finds that the economic value of saving roughly 1.7 million lives is $8 trillion, or almost one-third of U.S. GDP

In the News COVID-19 Economics

Business Insider: Rushing to reopen the country will force essential workers to make a terrible choice: Go broke or get sick, Article cites study by Asst. Prof. Simon Mongey that analyzed characteristics of workers in jobs that require physical proximity

Announcements Student Anthropology Economics

2020 Saller Dissertation Prize Recipients Named

Gretchen Pfeil from the Department of Anthropology and Winnie Van Dijk from the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics have been selected as the 2...

Faculty Economics Announcements

Economist Manasi Deshpande Named a 2020 William T. Grant Scholar

By Sheila Evans Manasi Deshpande’s research focuses on social insurance and public assistance programs, and how to design them optimally. With...

In the News COVID-19 Economics

NYT: Job or health? Restarting the economy threatens to worsen economic inequality, Study by Asst. Prof. Simon Mongey found workers in jobs that require physical proximity were disproportionately nonwhite, low income, immigrants and not college graduates

Student Economics Announcements

Two UChicago BA/MA Students Named 2020 Truman Scholars

Kristen Busch and Rodrigo Estrada, each joint BA/MA students majoring in economics and pursuing an MA in international relations, have been named 2020...