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The @BeckerFriedman is recruiting a Research Professional to work with Koichiro Ito.
Learn more at bit.ly/4zbBa4E
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Great visit to Harvard today. Met tons of faculty and students and had so many interesting discussions. The grad students are just brimming with ideas and questions about economics and AI. The kids are alright!
Pictured: me with my undergrad advisee Jeremy Huang, and a picture of me from 2017.
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Michael Woodford, AB’77, a College alum and former UChicago faculty member, has won the @NobelPrize for his work creating economic models that reshaped how policymakers steady a volatile economy.
Learn more: ms.spr.ly/6012aSkwk
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Who gets ahead? Who gets left behind? And what shapes inequality?
The Inequality Workshop returns to UChicago for the 2026–27 academic year, bringing data, evidence & new research to these questions.
Fall registration: forms.gle/unLpuSPyq7EVgHRt8
Updates: bit.ly/4f09cBu
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Concluding a productive week @UChicago, presenting our Sleep RCT at AFE 2026 #afe2026, giving AI workshop to predocs as @BeckerFriedman Visiting Scholar, and presenting JMP in the student prize finalist session @UrbanEconomics conference — see more @ idagri.github.io 😊
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For decades, the assumption behind American trade policy was that open markets made everyone better off. That consensus has collapsed, giving way to a contentious debate over tariffs, industrial policy, and what economic strength actually requires in this new environment. Is there such a thing as winning a trade war, and if so, what tradeoffs come with it? Is there a more optimistic path forward than the current rhetoric suggests?
On November 4, join @FT columnist @SoumayaKeynes, @UChicago Booth School of Business professor @BrentNeiman, and moderator @kylascan for a partner conversation with @BeckerFriedman on trade, economic strategy, and where the United States goes from here.
Register to attend in-person or virtually today: bit.ly/4hxAFKL
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Becker Friedman Institute for Economics retweeted
The @StiglerCenter at @ChicagoBooth has a new pre-doc role to work with Luigi Zingales @zingales
Learn more at bit.ly/4h1vW51
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Such a great time connecting with friends and colleagues working in a field of economics that gets to the heart of human behaviour.
In the spirit of Milton Friedman, economic ideas ultimately have to confront the test of factual evidence. Today, field experiments take that challenge directly into the real world by testing how people actually behave, not simply how theory predicts they should.
We are live in Chicago at the @BeckerFriedman #AFE2026! 🥂🇺🇸
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.@sndurlauf on the decline of U.S. universities in a new @hechingerreport article.
Learn why he's calling it a "suicidal trajectory": hechingerreport.org/once-glo…
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Meet with incoming Econ PhD student Raghav Warrier (@WarrierRaghav) on 8/18 at 11 AM CT!
Register at: bit.ly/warrier-office-hours
@UChi_Economics, @BeckerFriedman
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"Academia is a marathon, it's not a sprint."
Economist James Robinson on being ambitious - hear his advice to young researchers.
#NobelPrize
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Whole policy brief with @pascaljnoel @danmeuse @GA_NORA Marisa Bremer, Hannah Garden-Monheit, Koren Gila, with additional thanks to @BeckerFriedman
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New policy brief on impt but nerdy topic: Medicaid eligiblity!
How many workers get wrongly flagged as ineligible when income is measured naively by paycheck arrival instead of correctly by when work actually occurs?
X-axis: true earnings, Y-axis: naive earnings
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I loved this conversation with @people, especially the question, “This will take time. What should parents be doing now?” That’s exactly the way we should be approaching this topic—as both urgent and ongoing.
people.com/ai-can-rewire-kid…
Becker Friedman Institute for Economics retweeted
Book of the Day 📘: Human Raised by Dr Dana Suskind
AI can answer questions, write essays and even tell stories. But it can't replace the power of human connection.
In Human Raised, neuroscientist Dr Dana Suskind explores why conversation, curiosity and real human interaction remain the foundation of how we learn, grow and thrive in an AI-driven world. @DrDanaSuskind
A fascinating new release for anyone interested in learning, behavioural science and the future of human connection. a.co/d/0eRaXAZm
A great companion to our Behavioural Science for Life and AI Essentials courses.
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We are proud to congratulate EPIC scholar @Eyal_Frank of @HarrisPolicy on winning the 2026 Erik Kempe Award in Environmental and Resource Economics, alongside co-author @anantsudarshan for their study on the impacts of a vulture collapse in India. 🎊
epic.uchicago.edu/news/eyal-…
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Join us for the Advances with Field Experiments (AFE) 2026 Conference, bringing together leading researchers from around the world to present innovative new work using field experiments to answer important economic questions. bfi.uchicago.edu/events/even…
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Based on my joint research with José Scheinkman, Todd Munson, and Juliano Assunção, our new interactive @BeckerFriedman data studio brief explores how carbon pricing could reshape forest conservation and reforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. By combining economic modeling with spatial data, we examine how modest carbon payments can influence land-use decisions and contribute to climate change mitigation. Learn more about this research paper and our findings here:
bfidatastudio.org/project/ca…
#EconTwitter #ClimateChange #BrazilianAmazon #CarbonPrices #Reforestation #ForestPreservation
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Today we launched the 529 Consortium, a national research effort to expand access to education savings. The families who could benefit most from 529 plans are often the least likely to participate. Now we have the data and partnership to change that. Excited to work with @BeckerFriedman on cutting edge research projects . Learn more at 529research.org
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New @BeckerFriedman working paper: College-educated mothers invest more time teaching their kids and enjoy it less. We split by income and found the whole penalty sits in one group—non-employed, above-median-income, college-educated mothers. bfi.uchicago.edu/working-pap…
