BFI News·Oct 8, 2025

BFI PREP Achieves Record Success: 33 Research Professionals Placed at Top PhD Programs

BFI’s Pre-Doctoral Research in Economics Program (PREP) demonstrated exceptional placement success this application season, sending 33 research professionals to some of the nation’s most prestigious PhD programs. The cohort’s impressive results include nine fellows heading to University of Chicago, four...
BFI News·Jul 28, 2025

The Becker Friedman Institute Welcomes Three New Saieh Family Fellows to The University of Chicago

The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at The University of Chicago (BFI) is pleased to announce the appointment of three new Saieh Family Fellows in Economics. The Saieh Fellows Program provides funding and support for early-career scholars who have recently...
BFI News·Jul 23, 2025

Anthropic Partners with the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute for Economics to Advance Economic Research on AI Impact

Anthropic is collaborating with the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI) to study AI’s impact on labor markets and the economy. Through this research-focused partnership, for the 2025-2026 Academic Year Anthropic will provide: Claude for Enterprise Pro...
BFI News·Jun 15, 2025

The rising resistance to creative destruction

Financial Times; Ufuk Akcigit
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
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