The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI) is pleased to announce the award of 16 new grants supporting economics research by University of Chicago faculty and students in a wide-range of study areas. These grants will help promote ground-breaking research through the BFI Health Economics Initiative, Political Economics Initiative, and our ongoing data acquisition grant program.
Grants are intended to support faculty in the purchase of new data sets and software, research assistants, and travel. When published, the insights gleaned from this research and data will have real-world impacts across a variety of topics and fields of study.
BFI is proud to announce the recipients of the research grants, listed below, along with the research the grant will be supporting and data source where applicable.
HEALTH ECONOMICS INITIATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS
Robert Kaestner and Dmitri Koustas
Research: The Effect of Access to Health Insurance on Job Mobility, Self-employment and Gig Economy Participation
Joshua Gottlieb
Research: The Wage Distribution in Health Care
Jeff Grogger
Research: The Long-Run Health Implications of Transfer-System Reform
POLITICAL ECONOMICS INITIATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS
Rafael Jimenez (Student Award)
Research: Haters Gonna Hate: The Micro Effects of Censoring Hate Speech in Social Media
Scott Behmer (Student Award)
Research: Willingness to Provide Biased News
Mateusz Stalinski (Student Award)
Research: Mitigating Affective Polarisation and ‘Echo Chambers’: Experimental Study of Mechanisms
Luis Martinez
Research: Fiscal Rules and Local Development in Colombia
Raul Sanchez de la Sierra
Research: Who Joins Armed Organizations? Moral Sentiments, Economic Incentives, and Social Norms
Daniel Kashner (Student Award)
Research: Disrupting Polarization
Shaoda Wang (Staff Award)
Research: The Selection and the Making of Civil Servants: Evidence from China’s College Graduate Civil Services Program
FALL 2019 BFI DATA ACQUISITION GRANTS
Anup Malani
Data Source: Center for Monitoring the Indian Economy (CMIE)
Research: Economics of Slums
Fiona Burlig and Michael Greenstone
Ludovica Gazze (Staff Award)
Olga Rostapshova (Staff Award)
Data Source: IHS Markit data on truck registrations in all 50 states
Research: Emissions Leakage in Response to Local Pollution Regulation: Evidence from California Trucking
Joshua Gottlieb, Peter Ganong, and Pascal Noel
Data Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare Part D as well as National Death Index for Medicare Patients
Research: The Health Impacts of Medicine’s Changing Industrial Structure
Guillaume Pouliot and Øystein Daljord
Data Source: Webinsight
Research: Analysis of Illicit Markets
Chris Blattman and James Robinson
Laura Montenegro Helfer (Student Award)
Data Source: Collection of detailed historical government census data for Cape of Good Hope and South Africa broadly
Research: Setting the Foundation for Apartheid: The Politics of Economic Distortion in the Cape of Good Hope
David Weisbach and Ryan T. Sakoda
Data Source: Kansas Sentencing Commission (KSC)
Research: Empirical Analysis of Criminal Justice Supervision in Kansas