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 ...

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 ...

A new study finds that a light-touch intervention—what one of the authors calls a “classic nudge”—can increase the share of first-generation college students majoring in economics. In this particular ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a ...

Yale College seniors Bilal Moin and Daevan Mangalmurti have a mutual interest in international development, a branch of economics that examines the forces affecting economic development and individual ...

YOUNGSTOWN — A group of Youngstown State University students has ideas on how to retain students and to repopulate and revitalize Youngstown. Economics professor Albert J. Sumell teaches 16 students ...

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 ...

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, ...

An extensive public engagement process will inform plans for a dedicated home that will unify economics scholars currently ...