The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI) serves as a hub for cutting-edge analysis and research across the entire University of Chicago economics community, uniting researchers from the Booth School of Business, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, the...
Inspired by our namesakes, Nobel Laureates Gary Becker and Milton Friedman, who believed that economics research could help improve the world, BFI works with the Chicago Economics community to turn its evidence-based research into real-world impact.
The Predoctoral Research in Economics Program (PREP) is intended to serve as a bridge between college and graduate school for students interested in empirical economics. The program offers unique research and professional training opportunities at the University of Chicago.
Expanding Discovery in Economics+ (EDE+) brings together a diverse group of early undergraduate students to hone their research abilities and technical skills.
Swaminathan Balasubramaniam, Jorge Sabat, and Soumyajit Ray
Using Reddit r/wallstreetbets posts, we compare the sentiment of AI-generated replies with actual human top-level replies to the same investor-authored posts. We find that counterfactual replies generated by a user-facing AI model are systematically more bullish than human replies. Prompting...
Shruti Jha, John List, Rebecca C. Royer, and Anya Samek
Do early investments in parents pay off even when treatment effects for children appear to fade out quickly? We answer this question by leveraging a field experiment in which households with 3-5 year-old children were randomized into a parenting program,...
Rajashri Chakrabarti, Philippe d'Astous, Kory Kroft, Sheisha Kulkarni, Vyacheslav Mikhed, Matthew Notowidigdo, Sahil Raina, and Barry Scholnick
We estimate the causal effects of a financial windfall on consumption, savings, and wage earnings using linked administrative data on a large sample of Canadian lottery winners. Using separate linkages of lottery winners to income tax records and credit bureau...
Captivating and informative videos on the latest insights and trends as well as the tested stock of knowledge in economics from leaders in academia, policy, business, and the media.
The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI) serves as a hub for cutting-edge analysis and research across the entire University of Chicago economics community, uniting researchers from the Booth School of Business, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, the...
Inspired by our namesakes, Nobel Laureates Gary Becker and Milton Friedman, who believed that economics research could help improve the world, BFI works with the Chicago Economics community to turn its evidence-based research into real-world impact.
The Predoctoral Research in Economics Program (PREP) is intended to serve as a bridge between college and graduate school for students interested in empirical economics. The program offers unique research and professional training opportunities at the University of Chicago.
Expanding Discovery in Economics+ (EDE+) brings together a diverse group of early undergraduate students to hone their research abilities and technical skills.
Swaminathan Balasubramaniam, Jorge Sabat, and Soumyajit Ray
Using Reddit r/wallstreetbets posts, we compare the sentiment of AI-generated replies with actual human top-level replies to the same investor-authored posts. We find that counterfactual replies generated by a user-facing AI model are systematically more bullish than human replies. Prompting...
Shruti Jha, John List, Rebecca C. Royer, and Anya Samek
Do early investments in parents pay off even when treatment effects for children appear to fade out quickly? We answer this question by leveraging a field experiment in which households with 3-5 year-old children were randomized into a parenting program,...
Rajashri Chakrabarti, Philippe d'Astous, Kory Kroft, Sheisha Kulkarni, Vyacheslav Mikhed, Matthew Notowidigdo, Sahil Raina, and Barry Scholnick
We estimate the causal effects of a financial windfall on consumption, savings, and wage earnings using linked administrative data on a large sample of Canadian lottery winners. Using separate linkages of lottery winners to income tax records and credit bureau...
Captivating and informative videos on the latest insights and trends as well as the tested stock of knowledge in economics from leaders in academia, policy, business, and the media.
