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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...
Topics: 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...