The Development Lunch Seminars are operated with support from the Becker Friedman Institute and The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts and is a collaboration between University of Chicago Department of Economics, Booth School of Business, Harris Public Policy and the Law School. This lunch meets on Fridays from 12:40-2:00 pm in Keller Center. Lunch is available at 12:20 […]
In an era of divided government, there has been concern over Congress’s ability to reach compromise and pass legislation. With Democrats in the majority in the House of Representatives and Republicans in control of the Senate and the White House, progress has been limited. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is one of only five women Republican […]
On November 1, BFI hosted Alessandra Voena, Professor in Economics and the College, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, and Co-Director of BFI's Initiative for the Study of Gender in the Economy, for a Friedman Forum lecture on gender and human capital investments in developing countries. The Friedman Forum series offers students an opportunity for […]
Participants: Edward Glaeser (Harvard University), Byron Lutz (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Carol Portman (Taxpayers’ Federation of Illinois), Joshua Rauh (Stanford University), and C. Eugene Steuerle (Urban Institute) Hosted by Lars Peter Hansen and James Heckman Overview The Macro Finance Research Program (MFR), Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD) will host the second installment of the University of Chicago […]
Astonishing recent progress in numerical optimization presents many opportunities and challenges for modern data analysis and scientific inference. Econometrics and statistics offer a valuable angle from which to study optimization problems and, conversely, operations research offers a productive perspective from which to consider many problems in econometrics and statistics, whence the importance of fostering interactions […]
Audio · Unedited Transcript · Banerjee Presentation Event Recap Why Nobody Trusts Economists 2019 Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee joins UChicago economists and Obama Foundation president to discuss bridging gulf between economics and the public Early in his career, economist Abhijit Banerjee didn’t see himself writing books for broad, non-expert audiences. Now, on the heels of receiving the […]
