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...
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.
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 Discovery in Economics+ (EDE+) brings together a diverse group of early undergraduate students to hone their research abilities and technical skills.
Amy Finkelstein, Matthew Notowidigdo, and Steven Shi
We estimate the mortality impact of local labor market exposure to the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as well as to other local area shocks, and provide a parsimonious empirical explanation for differently-signed mortality estimates across different sources...
Rachel Glennerster, Joanna Murray, and Victor Pouliquen
This paper tests whether the arrival of mass media triggers a decline in fertility, a central prediction of modernization theory. Using a field experiment, we vary exposure to mass media and its content in a quarter of Burkina Faso. We...
James Heckman, Haihan Tian, Zijian Zhang, and Jin Zhou
Dynamic complementarity is the concept that past investments that lead to higher stocks of skill at one age promote the growth of skills from investment at that age. We define and provide evidence on dynamic complementarity using unique Chinese data...
Captivating and informative videos on the latest insights and trends as well as the tested stock of knowledge in economics from leaders in academia, policy, business, and the media.
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Multimedia·May 24, 2023
Day 3 – Opening High Level Plenary (AIM for Climate Summit)
Michael Kremer
Watch Remarks from Micheal Kremer
Multimedia·Aug 31, 2022
EDE Highlights Video
The University of Chicago’s Expanding Diversity in Economics (EDE) Summer Institute was launched in 2021 by the Becker Friedman...
Insight·Apr 28, 2022
Innovations in Market Design
In the twenty years since UChicago’s Rachel Glennerster and Michael Kremer proposed Advanced Market Commitments (AMCs) to address neglected tropical...
Insight·Apr 27, 2022
Policy Innovation through Experimentation (for Development): Drawing on Lessons from Public Policy in China and the Chilean Government
This event featured two case studies on policy innovation through experimentation (for development). David Yang, Associate Professor of Economics at...
Insight·Apr 26, 2022
Innovation, Experimentation, and Economics: Keynote Address by Michael Kremer
In this lecture, Nobel laureate Michael Kremer, University Professor at the University of Chicago, discussed why innovation is important for...
Insight·Apr 25, 2022
Scaling Innovation in the Developing World, Featuring the International Finance Corporation’s Makhtar Diop
If there was a silver lining in the pandemic, it was the role of innovation in saving lives and solving...
Multimedia·Apr 30, 2021
Watch: The Economic Impacts of Deworming
Learn how a simple, low-cost public health program can generate extraordinarily high and sustained social and economic returns, and how...
Multimedia·Apr 12, 2021
Watch: What We Teach About Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children’s Books
Children learn many things from the books they read, and some of the most important lessons books teach are the...
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Early Childhood Education, K-12 Education
Multimedia·Mar 25, 2021
Watch: Gang Rule – An Experiment in Countering Criminal Governance
Can intensifying municipal and community governance displace gang rule? Urban criminal groups rule tens to hundreds of millions of people...
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...
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.
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 Discovery in Economics+ (EDE+) brings together a diverse group of early undergraduate students to hone their research abilities and technical skills.
Amy Finkelstein, Matthew Notowidigdo, and Steven Shi
We estimate the mortality impact of local labor market exposure to the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as well as to other local area shocks, and provide a parsimonious empirical explanation for differently-signed mortality estimates across different sources...
Rachel Glennerster, Joanna Murray, and Victor Pouliquen
This paper tests whether the arrival of mass media triggers a decline in fertility, a central prediction of modernization theory. Using a field experiment, we vary exposure to mass media and its content in a quarter of Burkina Faso. We...
James Heckman, Haihan Tian, Zijian Zhang, and Jin Zhou
Dynamic complementarity is the concept that past investments that lead to higher stocks of skill at one age promote the growth of skills from investment at that age. We define and provide evidence on dynamic complementarity using unique Chinese data...
Captivating and informative videos on the latest insights and trends as well as the tested stock of knowledge in economics from leaders in academia, policy, business, and the media.
