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The latest commentary and analysis from BFI’s leading scholars in shorter, digestible forms.
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Insights / Research Brief•Mar 15, 2023

Access to Credit in Informal Economies: Does Financial Information Matter?

Rimmy E. Tomy, Regina Wittenberg-Moerman
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Insights / Research Brief•Mar 08, 2023

Inference for Ranks with Applications to Mobility Across Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement Across Countries

Magne Mogstad, Joseph P. Romano, Azeem M. Shaikh, Daniel Wilhelm
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Economic Findings

Summary analysis of latest research from UChicago Scholars.
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Finding•Mar 22, 2023

A Trajectories-Based Approach to Measuring Intergenerational Mobility

Yoosoon Chang, Steven N. Durlauf, Seunghee Lee, Joon Y. Park
Researchers have long looked to parental income as a key factor in determining intergenerational mobility....
Topics:  Economic Mobility & Poverty
Finding•Mar 21, 2023

Changing Tracks: Human Capital Investment After Loss of Ability

Anders Humlum, Jakob R. Munch, Pernille Plato
Human capital was first popularized by Gary Becker, who compared individuals’ investments in education and...
Topics:  Employment & Wages

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Here Are the Potential Outcomes of Injured Workers With and Without Reskilling through Higher Education

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New Research Reveals Insights Into Foreign Investment in China

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EDE Highlights Video

  The University of Chicago’s Expanding Diversity in Economics (EDE) Summer Institute was launched in...
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Innovations in Market Design

In the twenty years since UChicago’s Rachel Glennerster and Michael Kremer proposed Advanced Market Commitments...

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Insights / Podcast episode•Mar 21, 2023

Social Media Algorithms: How You’re Curating a Biased News Feed

Tess Vigeland, Sendhil Mullainathan
Social media behaviors, moving at an ever faster pace, may not reflect what users really...
Topics:  Technology & Innovation
Insights / Podcast episode•Mar 07, 2023

Evaluating US Healthcare 3 Years after Lockdown

Tess Vigeland, Katherine Baicker
At the third anniversary of COVID-19 lockdowns, this episode takes a look at ongoing healthcare...

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