Media Mention • Mar 20, 2019

Is Elite College Worth It? Wealthy parents who spend heavily to get their kids into top schools aren’t giving them as big an advantage as commonly thought, research shows

Wall Street Journal

Topics: Employment & Wages

Media Mention • Mar 16, 2019

How the internet led to greater wage inequality

The Economist; Ingvil Gaarder, Magne Mogstad

Media Mention • Dec 18, 2018

Research from Booth Professor and BFI Deputy Director Erik Hurst and colleagues finds high-end amenities attract affluent residents to urban cores, driving up housing prices

CityLab

Media Mention • Nov 20, 2018

BFI Deputy Director and Chicago Booth Professor Erik Hurst shares research about why men ages 25 to 34 are less likely to work than before

Bloomberg

Media Mention • Oct 17, 2018

Harris Professor Kerwin Charles draws connections between workplace and birthplace among American women

Chicago Maroon

Media Mention • Aug 23, 2018

Harris School of Public Policy’s Kerwin Kofi Charles examines the most sexist states

The Washington Post

Media Mention • Aug 20, 2018

New economic research from Harris School of Public Policy’s Kerwin Kofi Charles, an affiliated scholar of BFI’s Ronzetti Initiative for the Study of Labor Markets, looks at “How Sexism Follows Women from the Cradle to the Workplace”

New York Times

Media Mention • Jul 5, 2018

Research from Harris School of Public Policy’s Kerwin Kofi Charles, an affiliated scholar of BFI’s Ronzetti Initiative for the Study of Labor Markets, cited in discussion on the growing wage gap between white and black men

The Economist

Topics: Employment & Wages, Economic Mobility & Poverty

Media Mention • Jun 24, 2018

The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics Magne Mogstad, Director of BFI’s Ronzetti Initiative for the Study of Labor Markets, discusses automated restaurants

Wall Street Journal