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WSJ - Opinion: Biden Is Practically Engineering a Recession; Prof. Casey Mulligan co-authors op-ed on the regulatory and tax policies that may lead to a recession

Observer - An Economist Explains Why So Many Business Ideas Fail to Scale; Prof. John List discusses his recent book 'The Voltage Effect'

NYT - This Company Knows How To Increase Students' Test Scores; article cites Prof. Michael Kremer's research on education and test scores in Kenya

NYT - Lockdowns Protected Older People. But at What Cost to the Health of Young Adults? Op-ed quotes Prof. Casey Mulligan's research on collateral damage of COVID policy decisions

2 SSD Faculty among 2022 winners of Quantrell Teaching Awards

This article has been edited to highlight award recipients from the Division of the Social Sciences. To see the full list of recipients, visit the UCh...

Economic Times - Climate change will affect the economic geography of the world; Prof. Esteban Rossi-Hansberg discusses the impacts of climate change

UChicago Center Receives NSF Grant to Study Student Traits Leading to STEM Achievement

The University of Chicago Center for the Economics of Human Development and an international research team won a five-year grant to identify the perso...

NewScientist - Will bitcoin succeed in the Central African Republic? Probably not; Article cites study from Prof. Fernando Alvarez on bitcoin usage in El Salvador

Rest of World - Most Salvadorans have already ditched their national bitcoin wallets; Prof. Fernando Alvarez comments on Chivo, a currency app developed for users in El Salvador

NYT - Why Americans Became More Vulnerable to Oil Price Spikes; Prof. Michael Greenstone comments on global oil production and prices