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BFI News·Mar 27, 2025

Chad Syverson Named Deputy Director of the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics

The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI) at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce that Chad Syverson, the George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, has been appointed...
BFI News·Sep 6, 2024

Researchers: How to fight racial segregation? End exclusionary zoning in Illinois.

Chicago Tribune; Harold Pollack
BFI News·Sep 5, 2024

How a bat disease may have led to the death of more than 1,000 kids

The Washington Post; Eyal Frank
Topics: Health care
BFI News·Sep 5, 2024

Surprising New Research Links Infant Mortality to Crashing Bat Populations

New York Times; Eyal Frank
Topics: Health care
BFI News·Sep 5, 2024

Some 1,300 US Infants May Have Died Because Bats Vanished. Here’s How.

Newsweek; Eyal Frank
BFI News·Sep 4, 2024

How to master small talk at work

Washington Post; Nicholas Epley
BFI News·Sep 3, 2024

The Evolution of AI in Finance

Chicago Booth Review; Dacheng Xiu
Topics: Technology & Innovation
BFI News·Sep 3, 2024

AI ‘Surveillance Pricing’ Could Use Data to Make People Pay More

Scientific American; Jean-Pierre Dubé
Topics: Technology & Innovation
BFI News·Sep 3, 2024

Images and Audio Are Now Data Too

Chicago Booth Review; Dacheng Xiu
BFI News·Sep 1, 2024

Understanding productivity growth more fully is crucial because it plays such an outsize role in economic growth

International Monetary Fund; Ufuk Akcigit