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- - - About the Becker Friedman Institute
      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...
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      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.
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- - - Understanding the Heterogeneity of Intergenerational Mobility across Neighborhoods
      Neil A. Cholli, Steven Durlauf, Rasmus Landersø, and Salvador Navarro
      Recent research has uncovered large spatial heterogeneity in intergenerational mobility across neighborhoods in countries around the world. Yet there is little consensus on the reasons why mobility is high in some neighborhoods and low in others. This paper analyzes a...
      12 Best Practices for Leveraging Generative AI in Experimental Research
      Samuel Chang, Andrew Kennedy, Aaron Leonard, and John List
      We provide twelve best practices and discuss how each practice can help researchers accurately, credibly, and ethically use Generative AI (GenAI) to enhance experimental research. We split the twelve practices into four areas. First, in the pre-treatment stage, we discuss...
      Transmission of Family Influence
      Sadegh S.M. Eshaghnia, James Heckman, Rasmus Landersø, and Rafeh Qureshi
      This paper studies intergenerational mobility—the transmission of family influence. We develop and estimate measures of lifetime resources motivated by economic theory that account for differences in life-cycle trajectories, and uncertainty about future income. We identify the effects of parents’ resources...
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      Fall 2024 Behavioral Economics Seminar Series
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      Conference on Venezuelan Politics
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      On the Origins of Direct Rule: Armed Groups and Customary Chiefs in Eastern Congo • Social Origins of Militias: The Extraordinary Rise of “Outraged Citizens” • Seeing like a Citizen: Experimental Evidence on How Empowerment Affects Engagement with the State
      Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone
      Moving to Opportunity, Together
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      What Can the North Dakota Railroad War of 1905 Tell Us About Regulating Modern Monopolies?
      Understanding the Fed: How Perception Drives Market Reactions
      Promises Delivered? The Economic Effects of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
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      Corporate Income Tax Revenue & Investment around the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act
      Trace the Historical Origins of Today’s Federal Student Loan Crisis
      Return to Office and the Tenure Distribution
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The Becker Friedman Institute (BFI) Working Paper series disseminates current research in economics from the Chicago Economics community to encourage comments and discussion. We welcome submissions from University of Chicago tenured and tenure-track faculty in all areas of economic research. Chicago Research Fellows may also contribute to the series. Papers are posted as part of our series on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN), on IDEAS/RePEc, and here on this site.

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