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Faculty and Research
Our current faculty includes:
- Gary Becker, who has pioneered study in the fields of human capital, economics of the family, and economic analysis of crime, discrimination, addiction, and population.
- Kevin Murphy, a recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award, who studies inequality, unemployment, and relative wages; economics of growth and development, addiction, and the economic value of improvements in health and longevity.
- Steven Levitt, who studies a wide range of topics including the economic aspects of crime, corruption, sports, and education as evident in his book Freakonomics.
- John List, who is a professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He focuses on questions in microeconomics, with a particular emphasis on the use of experimental methods to address both positive and normative issues.
- Emily Oster, who is an assistant professor of Economics at the University of Chicago where she studies health and development with a particular emphasis on the interactions between disease and human behavior.
- Jesse M. Shapiro, who studies the economics of communication and persuasion, in the areas of industrial organization and political economy.
Visiting Faculty
For the academic year of 2007-08, we are please that Kerwin Charles, the Steans Family Professor in Education Policy in the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, will be joining us. His research focuses on a range of subjects in the broad area of empirical labor economics.
