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 ...

After taking Advanced Placement (AP) environmental science in high school — and loving it — Emma Aucker, now a senior environmental and resource economics (ENRE) major at the University of Delaware, ...

W ith widespread delays holding up tens of thousands of foreign students worldwide from getting their visas, the “U.S. economy could suffer a loss of $7 billion,” a higher-education group warned ...

As college students have become more diverse over the past few decades, a growing focus in education policy has centered on the university’s role in influencing their economic mobility. New research ...

In 1776, Adam Smith famously wrote: “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” Economists ...

President Trump’s plan to allow 600,000 Chinese students to study at U.S. universities could generate $43 billion for the U.S ...

Recruited athletes are more likely to concentrate in economics than the rest of the student body, according to data from The Herald’s First-Year Poll. Poll data found that about 17% of recruited ...

A Northwestern University professor has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his historical studies on sustained economic growth through technological progress. Joel Mokyr, who has ...

Markets work best when many companies vie for customers’ favour. They work badly when a few firms dominate, carving up sales between them. Economists therefore need a measure of whether markets are ...

In recent years, America’s student-loan policy has come to resemble an alphabet soup. During the covid-19 pandemic, relief came from the CARES, ARPA and HEROES acts. Repayment plans ranged from the ...