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Ashenfeter and Card profiled as Pioneers of Difference-in-Differences
Nov. 8, 2022

Orley Ashenfelter and David Card are both profiled in a fun video series

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New Exhibit Shines Spotlight on J. Douglas Brown
Oct. 25, 2022

On October 7, 2022 members of the Industrial Relations Section and Firestone Library gathered to celebrate the opening of an exhibit that highlights the contributions of labor economist J. Douglas Brown, whose personal philosophy and expertise informed the design of the Social Security Act. Brown was an IR Section alum and served as Section…

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Leah Boustan participates in keynote address at UPenn
Oct. 21, 2022

Leah Boustan and co-author Ran Abramitzky deliver a keynote presentation as part of the 2022 Migration and Organizations Conference

Allende presented at Urban Economics Association North American Meeting
Oct. 21, 2019
Louis Hyman awarded the William G. Bowen Award
Oct. 10, 2019
John H. Pencavel awarded Richard A. Lester Book Award
Oct. 10, 2019
Pauline Leung
Leung presented at IZA Workshop on Labor Market Institutions
Oct. 6, 2019
Eleanor Choi
Eleanor Choi presents at EALE Conference- Uppsala University, Sweden
Sept. 24, 2019
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Jiwon Choi presents at Urban Economics Association Summer School
Sept. 23, 2019
Boustan delivers keynote at World Bank Urbanization and Poverty Reduction Research Conference in September 2019
Sept. 23, 2019
Headshot of Christoper Neilson with SBA and Payroll Protection Program logos
Neilson awarded NSF grant to fund research on centralized school choice mechanisms
Sept. 23, 2019
Ellora Derenoncourt
Derenoncourt awarded Allan Nevins Prize in American Economic History by the Economic History Association
Sept. 23, 2019
Boustan speaks about black migration on NJTV progam about Newark
Sept. 23, 2019
Orley Ashenfelter was elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS), the nation’s oldest scholarly organization.
July 17, 2019
Orley Ashenfelter's presentation at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics Scientific Council Roundtable 2019
April 11, 2019
Craig Olson, a leading Industrial Relations scholar, passed away on February 18, 2019.
Feb. 26, 2019
Will Dobbie has been named a 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship
Feb. 19, 2019
Professor Christopher Neilson - "Profs Tapped To Fix School-Choice Lottery"
Jan. 11, 2019
Professor Orley C. Ashenfelter, speaker at 2018 Keynes Lecture at the British Academy
Jan. 10, 2019
Professor Leah Boustan uses big data to explore myths about the past
Jan. 7, 2019
Job Openings
Jan. 7, 2019
Chicago Booth’s Eugene Fama Prize Awarded to Joshua Angrist, and Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Dec. 21, 2018
Professor Leah Boustan’s Book Wins Two Awards
Dec. 4, 2018