American Guy: Masculinity in American Law and Literature
University of Chicago Law School faculty members Saul Levmore and Martha Nussbaum discuss a new book they have co-edited, “American Guy: Masculinity in American Law and Literature.” Levmore is the William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor o...
Developing Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago
Mark Siegler, MD, delivers the 25th annual Lowell T. Coggeshall Memorial Lecture. The lecture examines the contributions of Franklin McLean and Lowell Coggeshall to the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and the development of clinical ...
Workshop on Public Speaking
Workshop on Public Speaking (Arts of Teaching Series): Scientific research, as well as our common experience, indicates that how we communicate often has a much greater impact on audiences than the content of our message. The skills of public comm...
A tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Presentation of "A tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.," by Josef Stern, William H. Colvin Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
Announcing No Barriers
On October 1, 2014, the University of Chicago announced a comprehensive undergraduate initiative to broaden access to the College, reduce college debt, simplify the application process, and provide expanded career opportunities. The main element is No ...
Randomization Tests Under an Approximate Symmetry Assumption
Ivan A. Canay shares a theory of randomization tests under an approximate symmetry assumption. Randomization tests provide a general means of constructing tests that control size in finite samples whenever the distribution of the observed data exhibit...
Robust Two-Step Confidence Sets, and the trouble with the First Stage F-statistic
When weak identification is a concern, researchers frequently calculate confidence sets in two steps, first assessing the strength of identification and then deciding whether to use an identification-robust confidence set. Unfortunately, two-step proc...
Tractable and Consistent Random Graph Models
Arun G. Chandrasekhar defines a general class of network formation models, Statistical Exponential Random Graph Models (SERGMs), that nest standard exponential random graph models (ERGMs) as a special case. Their definition provides the first general ...
Bounding the Labor Supply Responses to a Randomized Welfare Experiment
Patrick Kline discusses the impact of Connecticut’s Jobs First welfare reform experiment on the labor supply decisions of a sample of welfare applicants and recipients. Although the experiment identifies the distribution of choices made in the absenc...
Time Inconsistency, Expectations and Technology Adoption
Standard neoclassical economic models assume that individuals behave rationally to maximize their utility. But these models can explain the behavior only of individuals who preferences over time remain consistent. Economists have recently argued that ...