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Podcasts episode·Oct 21, 2025

Moving to Opportunity: Together?

Tess Vigeland and Matthew Notowidigdo
When couples move for work, whose career takes the hit? UChicago economist Matt Notowidigdo discusses research showing that when heterosexual...
Topics: Employment & Wages
Podcasts episode·Jun 11, 2025

AI, the Economy, and Public Policy

Tess Vigeland, Caroline Grossman, Anders Humlum, Sanjog Misra, Samir Mayekar, and Alex Tamkin
How is AI impacting the economy today? What might this mean for tomorrow? This episode brings you inside a discussion...
Topics: Technology & Innovation
Podcasts episode·May 27, 2025

Tariffs, Trade, and a Misused Model

Tess Vigeland and Brent Neiman
Economist Brent Neiman recently returned to UChicago from his position as Deputy Undersecretary for International Finance at The US Treasury,...
Topics: Tax & Budget
Research Briefs·May 13, 2025

Interactive Research Brief: Measuring the Characteristics and Employment Dynamics of U.S. Inventors

Ufuk Akcigit and Nathan Goldschlag
Innovation is a key driver of economic growth, and understanding the conditions that lead people to invent new technologies can...
Topics: Employment & Wages
Podcasts episode·Apr 1, 2025

Crypto’s Fatal Flaw: Trust, Scale, and the Economics of Blockchain

Tess Vigeland and Eric Budish
Crypto’s most groundbreaking innovation, permissionless consensus, may also be its greatest vulnerability. In this episode, Chicago Booth economist Eric Budish...
Topics: Financial Markets, Technology & Innovation
Research Briefs·Jan 8, 2025

How Much Does the U.S. Fiscal System Redistribute?

Thomas Coleman and David A. Weisbach
The U.S. tax and transfer system has become more redistributive in recent decades, not less; this finding holds across multiple...
Topics: Tax & Budget
Research Briefs·Nov 11, 2024

Carbon Burden

Lubos Pastor, Robert F. Stambaugh, and Lucian A. Taylor
The US corporate sector’s “carbon burden” (the present value of social costs of its future carbon emissions) is 131% of...
Topics: Energy & Environment
Podcasts episode·Oct 29, 2024

Economics Meets Ecology: The Huge Costs of Ecosystem Declines

Tess Vigeland and Eyal Frank
Bats are considered a natural pesticide. When they began to die out due to an invasive fungus, farmers turned to...
Topics: Energy & Environment
Research Briefs·Oct 2, 2024

Moving to Opportunity, Together

Seema Jayachandran, Lea Nassal, Matthew Notowidigdo, Marie Paul, Heather Sarsons, and Elin Sundberg
When heterosexual couples in Germany and Sweden relocate, men’s earnings increase by 5-10%, while women’s do not change. Couples are...
Topics: Employment & Wages