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Development Innovation Lab Spotlight

Insight into UChicago’s premier development economics innovation center By Audrey Weckwerth Nearly a year after its official launch at the Unive...

WSJ - Biden's Budget Is an Assault on Social Security; In Op-ed, Prof. Casey Mulligan argues that policies hindering economic growth harm Social Security and Medicare

WBEZ - Free preschool could be coming to Illinois by 2027; Prof. James Heckman discusses Gov. Pritzker's push for universal preschool

The Day Tomorrow Began - Economics

View the full 'The Day Tomorrow Began - Economics' article on the UChicago News site here.   For more than a century, UChicago scholars’ groundbre...

WTTW - Pritzker Proposes $75 Million Increase in Preschool Spending as Part of Multi-Year Expansion; Article cites research from Prof. James Heckman on benefits of early-childhood support

Washington Post - Will global warming make temperature less deadly? Article draws on Prof. Michael Greenstone's research into the "social cost of carbon"

Manasi Deshpande One of Six UChicago Faculty Named 2023 Sloan Fellows

Promising early-career scholars in economics, physics, and computer science honored Six University of Chicago researchers have earned prestigious S...

New York Post - Six Lies Biden Will Tell in His State of the Union; Op-ed cites research from Prof. Casey Mulligan on oil production

Yahoo!Finance - Walmart's chief economist optimistic for U.S. economy this year; Prof. John List discusses his optimistic outlook for this year

Project Syndicate - What Drives Innovation? Article names Prof. Michael Kremer as a high-profile champion of "market shaping"