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.
Ariel Kalil, Mauricio Koechlin, Dana McCoy, Michelle Michelini, and Terri Sabol
Curiosity is fundamental to young children’s learning, yet no brief, validated behavioral measure of epistemic curiosity is designed for field-based research with preschool-aged children. This article describes the development and validation of the Animal Game, a 10-trial behavioral task, that...
We study the optimal design and analysis of experiments for estimating spillover effects. Assuming a known (e.g., linear) exposure mapping, we characterize the treatment-assignment distribution and regression-based estimator that minimize worst-case asymptotic variance against a broad class of distributions of...
Felipe Chávez-Bustamante and Cristián Troncoso-Valverde
Firms face a critical trade-off when allocating scarce human capital between technological and social innovation. While the role of human capital in technological innovation is well established, its influence on social innovation and the strategic interplay between the two remain...
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.
Financial Technology (“FinTech”) firms invest significantly more in customer capital relative to traditional financial firms, and such investment builds valuable customer capital. Higher investment by FinTech firms is not accounted for by sectoral focus or differences in firm age. Reasons for higher customer capital investment are explored, including the need to build trust with customers, the focus on downstream segments of the financial marketplace, the operation of platform-based business models, and a heavier reliance on valuable customer data.
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.
Ariel Kalil, Mauricio Koechlin, Dana McCoy, Michelle Michelini, and Terri Sabol
Curiosity is fundamental to young children’s learning, yet no brief, validated behavioral measure of epistemic curiosity is designed for field-based research with preschool-aged children. This article describes the development and validation of the Animal Game, a 10-trial behavioral task, that...
We study the optimal design and analysis of experiments for estimating spillover effects. Assuming a known (e.g., linear) exposure mapping, we characterize the treatment-assignment distribution and regression-based estimator that minimize worst-case asymptotic variance against a broad class of distributions of...
Felipe Chávez-Bustamante and Cristián Troncoso-Valverde
Firms face a critical trade-off when allocating scarce human capital between technological and social innovation. While the role of human capital in technological innovation is well established, its influence on social innovation and the strategic interplay between the two remain...
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.
