Economics Amplified
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- The Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago supports inquiry on significant economic and policy questions.
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- 🇬🇧 English
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- 2024-04-01 01:50
- last episode published
- 2023-09-05 10:00
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- 54.54 days
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- Becker Friedman Institute
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2023-09-05 |
Lessons from Pandemic Unemployment Benefits: When Government Generosity Becomes Necessity The U.S. government swung into action when the ranks of the pandemic unemployed swelled almost beyond recognition. Three years on, economists are continuing to study the effects of the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history. The Harr... |
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| 2023-08-22 | How much effect do government policies have on doctors’ wages? And when those wages are high, does it drive inequality in other jobs? And how does Taylor Swift factor in? Or Beyoncé? Joshua D. Gottlieb of the Harris School of Public Policy joins The Pi... |
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| 2023-08-08 | When the Los Angeles Unified School District combined some neighborhood high schools into Zones of Choice, schools had to compete for students. The result? Achievement gaps narrowed, and more kids reported that they liked school. Chris Campos of Chicag... |
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| 2023-07-25 | The use of cryptocurrency is on the rise, but who exactly is on the bandwagon? Chicago Booth’s Michael Weber has examined the crypto market – who’s in it, why they believe in it, and what it might mean for the future. He joins The Pie to share the surp... |
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| 2023-07-11 |
Social Distancing in 2023: The Economic Costs of Lingering COVID Fears Many, if not most, citizens of working age have gone back to their jobs in the three-plus years since the start of the pandemic – but not everybody has. Part of the reason is a lingering fear about workplace safety. Chicago Booth’s Steven Davis has new... |
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| 2023-06-27 | In the stock market, we all want to do well, but for some investors it’s also important to do good. In this episode, Chicago Booth’s Lubos Pastor joins to discuss his research on sustainable investing and what two recent studies tell us about the retur... |
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| 2023-06-06 |
How Debt Relief Raised Debts: The Untold Story of the Student Loan Moratorium Did borrowers and the American economy benefit from the federal government’s 2020 student debt moratorium? The picture is complicated according to new research from UChicago Economics’ Michael Dinerstein and Chicago Booth’s Constantine Yannelis. They j... |
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| 2023-05-30 | Vote-buying, or influencing voters’ decisions through favors or gifts, is pervasive in areas such as Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. UC Berkeley’s Frederico Finan, the TC Liu Distinguished Visitor at BFI, discusses his work studying how vote... |
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| 2023-05-16 |
Can ChatGPT Describe Company Performance Better than… the Company? The number of ways we can use AI is exploding, and it’s expected to change how entire industries function. Chicago Booth economist Maximilian Muhn and PhD student Alex Kim studied whether ChatGPT can simplify information and improve outcomes for invest... |
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| 2023-05-03 |
Misperceived Truths: Global Support for Women in the Workplace is More Than You Might Think Around the world, people underestimate support for basic women's rights. In new research, UChicago Economics' Leonardo Bursztyn documents these misperceptions and shows how they restrict women's progress. Aligning people's perceived and actual views, h... |
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