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Media Mention·Jun 28, 2021

Black Workers Stopped Making Progress on Pay. Is It Racism?

New York Times; Erik Hurst
Topics: Employment & Wages
Media Mention·Feb 20, 2020

Trump Administration Sees No Threat to Economy From Monopolies

New York Times; Greg Kaplan
Topics: Employment & Wages, Industrial Organization
Media Mention·Feb 11, 2020

College Major Related to Gender Wage Gap

Inside Higher Ed; Dan Black, Erik Hurst
Topics: Employment & Wages
Media Mention·Oct 31, 2019

Does Where You Live Really Matter?

UChicago News; Veronica Guerrieri, Erik Hurst
Topics: Economic Mobility & Poverty
Media Mention·Oct 4, 2019

Women are Slowly Pursuing More High-Paying Degrees, but the Pay Gap Remains, Says New Research

CNBC Make It; Dan Black, Erik Hurst
Topics: Employment & Wages, Higher Education & Workforce Training
Media Mention·Oct 4, 2019

Women Slowly Shifting to Higher-Paying College Majors

Wall Street Journal; Dan Black, Erik Hurst
Topics: Higher Education & Workforce Training
Media Mention·Mar 23, 2019

Greg Kaplan discusses his work on inequality and monetary policy, the wealthy hand-to-mouth and HANK models

Central Banking Podcast
Topics: Economic Mobility & Poverty, Monetary Policy
BFI News·Jan 30, 2019

Professor Greg Kaplan Wins Award for Economics in Central Banking

University of Chicago Professor Greg Kaplan and Princeton University Professors Benjamin Moll and Gianluca Violante have been awarded the 2019 Central Banking Award for Economics in Central Banking. This prestigious award is given to the authors of the speech, paper, report, presentation or other...
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·Dec 3, 2018

Booth’s Chang-Tai Hsieh finds restrictive zoning lowers growth in not only individual cities, but the US as a whole