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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...

In the News COVID-19 Economics

WSJ: Lack of savings worsens the pain of coronavirus downturn, Prof. Greg Kaplan says people are barely paying their bills and have little left for savings

In the News COVID-19 Economics

NYT: U.S. is nowhere close to reopening the economy, experts say, Asst. Prof. Simon Mongey among several researcher who argue that rapid deployment of randomized testing could reduce health and economic damage

In the News COVID-19 Economics

NYT: How economists, too, are taking on the coronavirus crisis, Profs. Michael Greenstone and Chang-Tai Hsieh discuss the impact of recent stay at home orders