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BFI News·May 5, 2026

Use Your Life as a Lab: BFI Director John List’s New Guide to Experimental Economics

Have you ever tested multiple subject lines on an email to see which got more opens? Cooked a recipe two ways to settle a debate at home? If so, you’ve dabbled in the ideas that John List has spent more...
Media Mention·May 4, 2026

Two investment strategies for people who are afraid of the stock market

MarketWatch; Eugene Fama
Media Mention·May 4, 2026

Writing By Hand Is Good For Business

Forbes; Nicholas Epley
Media Mention·May 4, 2026

The New Wealth Taxes

The Dispatch; Eric Zwick
Media Mention·May 4, 2026

Early Simultaneous Cochlear Implants Linked to Better Long-Term Spatial Hearing in Teens

Medscape; Dana Suskind
Media Mention·May 4, 2026

With new student loan changes, borrowers fear unsustainable payments. Experts fear a default crisis

PBS; Lesley Turner
Media Mention·May 4, 2026

Chicago 2050: Professors advise on how Chicago can train workers to succeed with AI

Chicago Tribune; Jens Ludwig
Media Mention·May 4, 2026

The U.S. Started the War. The Rest of the World Is Feeling the Effects.

The New York Times; Raghuram Rajan
Media Mention·May 4, 2026

Some Chicagoans aren’t paying federal taxes in protest of Trump policies

WBEZ-FM; David Weisbach
Media Mention·May 4, 2026

AI Makes Labor Cheap And Human Touch More Valuable

Forbes; Alex Imas