Visiting Committees: Advocates and Advisers
Lynne Brickner, Chair of the Visiting Committee to the Division of the Social Sciences, describes how Visiting Committees are advocates and advisers to the Divisions and Schools they serve. For more information, please visit: http://vc.uchicago.edu
Visiting Committees: Innovation and Impact
John Boyer, Dean of the College, explains how alumni on Visiting Committees can foster innovation and impact at the University of Chicago. For more information, please visit: http://vc.uchicago.edu
Visiting Committees and Councils: An Overview
Andrew Alper, Chair of the Board of Trustees and member of the Council on the Booth School of Business, explains why Visiting Committees and Councils are important to the University of Chicago. For more information, please visit: http://vc.uchicago.edu
Mark Halperin & John Heilemann on "Double Down: Game Change 2012"
Mark Halperin and John Heilemann set the national conversation on fire with their bestselling account of the 2008 presidential election, "Game Change." In "Double Down," they apply their unparalleled access and storytelling savvy to the 2012 election, ...
Chicago: City of Big Data
The growing torrent of information released by city governments and collected by researchers is connecting with new tools developed by computer scientists, enabling significant advances in urban planning, medicine, social science and other spheres. On ...
Richard Reeves on the Legacy of JFK, 50 Years After the Assassination
To mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Richard Reeves joins Institute Director David Axelrod for an in-depth interview about JFK and his impact on...
Public Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Employment Lock
Examining the impact of 170,000 Tennessee residents losing their public health insurance in 2005, Northwestern University’s Craig Garthwaite presented a recent paper investigating how decreased access to public insurance affects the labor supply. The...
Does Employer Learning Vary by Schooling Attainment?
The Ohio State University’s Audrey Light presents work examining how differences between how much employees of differing education levels learn on the job might be explained by differing definitions of when exactly a career begins.
Housing Booms, Labor Market Outcomes, and College Enrollments
Erik Hurst, the V. Duane Rath Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, presents work examining how a booming construction sector offset an accelerating decline in manufacturing sector employment, with clear shifts i...
Robert Topel’s Tribute to Finis Welch
Former students of Finis Welch honor the labor economist with a special gift.