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The Becker Friedman Institute @UChicago supports inquiry on significant economic and policy questions. RT/Follow ≠ endorsement.
Chicago, Illinois
Joined November 2011
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NEW EPISODE: Wages aren’t the whole story. @UChi_Economics' @evankrose studied 20K Danish workers to reveal the hidden benefits of jobs—like flexibility, culture & stress. 🎧 Listen to the latest episode of The Pie:
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Housing prices have soared—but it’s not just about construction costs. New research interactive from Brian Potter & @ChadSyverson shows building costs explain surprisingly little about US home prices over the past 75 years. Check it out on BFI Data Studio:
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How do ecosystem disruptions impact people? New research paper from @HarrisPolicy's @Eyal_Frank, @verda_dao, and co-authors shows China’s 1958 sparrow eradication worsened the Great Famine—causing nearly 2M extra deaths.
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How do large disruptions to ecosystems affect human well-being? This paper tests the long-standing hypothesis that China’s 1958 Four Pests Campaign, which exterminated sparrows despite scientists’...
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💡 BFI Initiatives bring together UChicago scholars around key themes—from health and education to macroeconomics and inequality—advancing frontier research with global impact. Explore the Initiatives here: #EconResearch #UChicago #BFI
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📢 AFE2025 returns Sept 18–19! Join leading economists for the latest in field experimental research. All field methods welcome—natural, framed, artefactual. PhD students especially encouraged to attend. Info: #FieldExperiments #Econ #AFE2025
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📍London | BFI was honored to co-sponsor this conference—curated by Chicago Crime Lab & the UK’s Ending Youth Violence Lab—on global, evidence-based strategies to help the UK achieve its Safer Streets mission. Agenda and photos here:
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New research paper from James Heckman, Colleen P. Loughlin, and Haihan Tian finds that high school, college, and intramural sports participation boosts graduation rates and wages—especially for disadvantaged and minority students. 🎓🏀
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This paper uses longitudinal data to study the benefits of participation in scholastic athletics starting with high school participation and continuing with college athletics, including the benefits...
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RT @BAlkhorayef: سعدت بزيارة جامعة Chicago ولقاء عميد كلية السياسات العامة، والمشاركة في جلسة حوارية بحضور نخبة من صنّاع السياسات والباحثين….
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RT @HarrisPolicy: Prof. Bruce D. Meyer, co���author of a key Medicaid impact study, warns that while Pres. Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” m….
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This summer, President Donald Trump has begun to chisel back Medicaid and food stamps. On a July day in 1965, President Lyndon B.
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RT @chicagoboothrev: If the bank won’t lend to you, who will?. Chicago Booth's @profsufi discusses the rise of private capital. https://t.c….
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Chicago Booth’s Amir Sufi discusses the rise of private capital.
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RT @chicagoboothrev: How robust are America’s institutions?. @ChicagoBooth's Raghuram G. Rajan talks about the role of institutions in poli….
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Chicago Booth’s Raghuram G. Rajan talks about the role of institutions in political economy.
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Pauline Mourot, former Econ PhD student at @ChicagoBooth and current Assistant Professor at Boston University, shared insights from her job market paper on surgeon-hospital sorting and complementarities. 🩺 Watch here:
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Why do health insurers deny care—and what are the economic consequences? On The Pie, Tess Vigeland speaks with UChicago’s @GottliebEcon, @zarekcb, and @maggieshi311 about the hidden costs of denials, pre-auths, and hospital oversight. 🎧:
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The ongoing debate over health insurance denials has only intensified in recent months. In this episode of The Pie, host Tess Vigeland unpacks the economic forces shaping the US healthcare system...
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Receiving truthful info on reducing CO2 raises willingness to pay for offsets, w/ effects varying by sociodemographics and prior beliefs about climate change and personal impact. Brief by René Bernard, Panagiota Tzamourani, & Michael Weber (@ChicagoBooth)
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It is understood that individuals can mitigate the negative effects of CO2 emissions on the earth’s climate by the lifestyle choices they make and by their support of emissions-reducing policies....
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📲 A green text bubble might seem small—until it drives identity, lawsuits, and market power. Economist Leo Bursztyn (@UChi_Economics) breaks down how Apple’s design locks users in and fuels its dominance. 🎧 Listen now:
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Jobseekers prefer companies that demonstrate ESG practices, w/ strongest preferences among those who are highly educated, white, & politically liberal. @ChicagoBooth's Emanuele Colonnelli & Thomas Rauter, Tim McQuade, Gabriel Ramos, & Olivia Xiong.
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Recent research from UChicago economists has documented the tremendous rise in the pressure that corporations face to do “good” not just to shareholders, but to society at large. This shift has...
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RT @HarrisPolicy: “One of the main concerns about the Grad PLUS program is money that is going to subsidize institutions rather than extend….
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The Trump administration’s strict new caps on federal student loans leaves aspiring physicians fearing medical school is out of reach.
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RT @HarrisPolicy: "The few tariff agreements that have been reached represent nontrivial changes in US trade policy," @sndurlauf tells @AJE….
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Trump’s tariffs have had a limited impact on the global economy so far, but analysts fear the worst is yet to come.
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RT @HarrisPolicy: Learn about how evaluative practices that are too lenient or too strict can harm students in this edition of Harris on Ed….
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