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- - - About the Becker Friedman Institute
      The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI) serves as a hub for cutting-edge analysis and research across the entire University of Chicago economics community, uniting researchers from the Booth School of Business, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, the...
    - Our Legacy
      Inspired by our namesakes, Nobel Laureates Gary Becker and Milton Friedman, who believed that economics research could help improve the world, BFI works with the Chicago Economics community to turn its evidence-based research into real-world impact.
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      The Predoctoral Research in Economics Program (PREP) is intended to serve as a bridge between college and graduate school for students interested in empirical economics. The program offers unique research and professional training opportunities at the University of Chicago.
    - Expanding Diversity in Economics+
      Expanding Diversity in Economics+ (EDE+) brings together a diverse group of early undergraduate students to hone their research abilities and technical skills.
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- - - The Economics of Healthcare Fraud
      The Economics of Healthcare Fraud Jetson Leder-Luis and Anup Malani
      Healthcare fraud imposes a sizable cost on U.S. public healthcare budgets and distorts health care provision. We examine the economics of health care fraud and enforcement using theory and data and connect to a growing literature on the topic. We...
      Credit Card Entrepeneurs
      Ufuk Akcigit, Raman S. Chhina, Seyit Cilasun, Javier Miranda, and Nicolas Serrano-Velarde
      Beginning in January 2021, over less than two years, credit card usage by small U.S. businesses nearly doubled, interest payments rose by 60%, and delinquencies reached 2.8%. In this paper, we utilize near real-time QuickBooks data from over 1.6 million...
      The Impact of Employment on Partnerships: Evidence from a Refugee Settlement
      Yueh-ya Hsu, Reshmaan Hussam, Erin M. Kelley, and Gregory Lane
      We measure the impact of employment by assessing its effect on the individual and their marital partnership in the Rohingya refugee camps. To do so, we randomly assign either the husband or wife to a six-week job. We find that...
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