After taking Advanced Placement (AP) environmental science in high school — and loving it — Emma Aucker, now a senior environmental and resource economics (ENRE) major at the University of Delaware, ...

The field of economics historically has had disproportionately fewer women than men as well as a lack of minority representation. A 2020 economics panel at the Allied Social Science Associations ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of Dispatches from Abroad, a series highlighting UChicago community members who are researching, studying and working around the world. Every summer, the hallways of ...

Sam Lawrence is fascinated learning about how economists study the impacts of safety net programs designed to lift people out of poverty.In a class last year with Marianne Page, a professor of ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. A new study finds that a light-touch intervention—what one of the authors calls a “classic nudge ...

Yang, who was studying a masters in economics at the time, said the first meeting was held on a “bit of shoestring,” dependent on volunteers and “some real acts of kindness” from family and friends as ...

This week, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Professor Claudia Goldin the Nobel Prize in Economics “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes,” making her the ...

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Eshan Pokhrel’s news organization, like many things, was born out of the COVID-19 pandemic. “My parents watch the news a lot when we’re at home,” he said. “Post-lockdown, when I was reading websites, ...