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The Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago supports inquiry on significant economic and policy questions.
The U.S. government swung into action when the ranks of the pandemic unemployed swelled almost beyond recognition. Three years on, economist...
How much effect do government policies have on doctors’ wages? And when those wages are high, does it drive inequality in other jobs? And ho...
When the Los Angeles Unified School District combined some neighborhood high schools into Zones of Choice, schools had to compete for studen...
The use of cryptocurrency is on the rise, but who exactly is on the bandwagon? Chicago Booth’s Michael Weber has examined the crypto market...
Many, if not most, citizens of working age have gone back to their jobs in the three-plus years since the start of the pandemic – but not ev...
In the stock market, we all want to do well, but for some investors it’s also important to do good. In this episode, Chicago Booth’s Lubos P...
Did borrowers and the American economy benefit from the federal government’s 2020 student debt moratorium? The picture is complicated accord...
Vote-buying, or influencing voters’ decisions through favors or gifts, is pervasive in areas such as Latin America, Africa, and Southeast As...
Around the world, people underestimate support for basic women's rights. In new research, UChicago Economics' Leonardo Bursztyn documents th...
Nobody ever wants to pay more for anything, especially when prices rise drastically – but can inflationary episodes be good for the economy?...
When rural patients need care that local medical facilities can’t provide, what’s the best way to ensure they get the care they need? Econom...
Social media behaviors, moving at an ever faster pace, may not reflect what users really want, according to new research from economists Sen...
At the third anniversary of COVID-19 lockdowns, this episode takes a look at ongoing healthcare market failures and the pandemic’s role in m...
What can vultures and economics tell us about the cost of losing a keystone species? New research from environmental economist Eyal Frank of...
Does welfare prevent crime — and offset its cost to taxpayers? UChicago economist Manasi Deshpande joins to discuss her novel research study...
How can discrimination by race, gender, or other factors be measured – especially when its causes may be systemic in nature? Chicago Booth’s...
New research finds minorities are 24-33% more likely to be stopped for speeding and will pay 23-34% more in fines, relative to a white drive...
Can ‘nudges’ improve your New Year’s resolutions? Today we’re looking back at one of our most popular episodes. Host Tess Vigeland sat down...
Podcast note: Please enjoy this episode from season two of The Pie, an economics podcast from the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics. S...
Podcast note: Please enjoy this episode from season two of The Pie, an economics podcast from the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics. S...
Podcast note: Please enjoy this episode from season two of The Pie, an economics podcast from the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics. S...
Podcast note: Please enjoy this episode from season two of The Pie, an economics podcast from the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics. S...
Podcast Note: Please enjoy this episode from season two of The Pie, an economics podcast from the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics. S...
Podcast Note: Please enjoy episode one from season two of The Pie, an economics podcast from the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics. Su...
The United States is facing a range of challenging policy issues, from trade to inequality to climate change. The good news is that academic...
The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI), the Chicago Economics Society (CES), and the Booth Alumni Club of Washington, DC, welcome...
When faced with debt across multiple credit cards, do people pay down their balances in a way that makes financial sense? On February 1, BFI...
Traditional economics assumes rational actors. In daily decision-making, however, we all make decisions influenced by our biases and beliefs...
Chicago Booth Professor Steve Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics, discussed modern data science techniques at BFI's latest Becker Brown Bag t...
In this episode, Murphy talks with Nancy Stokey, The Frederick Henry Prince Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, about the transfor...
Richard Evans is a Senior Fellow in Computational Social Science at the University of Chicago, and Fellow here at the institute. Evans sees...
Edward P. Lazear is a labor economist and a founder of the field known as personnel economics. His research centers on employee incentives,...
Amanda Agan is interested in the ways that laws and regulations play out in the real world, often yielding unintended consequences. She visi...
In this episode, Kevin Murphy talks with Casey Mulligan, professor in economics at the University of Chicago. Mulligan examines microeconomi...
Manasi Deshpande is an emerging expert in how social insurance programs shape the outcomes of their recipients. In this episode, she and Kev...
In this episode, Murphy gets concrete with Chad Syverson, the J. Baum Harris Professor of Economics at Chicago Booth, about how his engineer...
In this episode, Murphy and Muhammad Akbarpour, a Becker Friedman Institute Research Fellow, examine the opportunities that surround the dev...
In this episode, Murphy talks with Steven Davis, William H. Abbott Professor of International Business and Economics at Chicago Booth, explo...
In this episode, Murphy and James Heckman, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, delve in...
In this episode, Murphy talks with Erik Hurst, V. Duane Rath Professor of Economics and the John E. Jeuck Faculty Fellow at Chicago Booth, t...
In this episode, Murphy and José Scheinkman, a former UChicago faculty member and department chair now at Columbia University and Princeton...
In this episode, Murphy talks with Benjamin Brooks, a Becker Friedman Institute Research Fellow, about what drew Brooks to economics as his...
In this episode, we speak with Manasi Deshpande, who currently works at the Institute as a postdoctoral research fellow leading up to joinin...
In today’s episode we talk with Ben Brooks, a research fellow at the Becker Friedman Institute interested in how incomplete information comp...
In this episode, we speak with David Weisbach and Jennifer Nou of the University of Chicago Law School, as well as Alan Sanstad of the Compu...
John Taylor and Harald Uhlig recount a recent series of conference aimed at codifying the most important principles guiding modern macroecon...