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Professor James Heckman Receives Prestigious Friendship Award from Chinese Government
Center for the Economics of Human Development The University of Chicago 5750 South Woodlawn Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 September 29, 2019 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Subject: Professor James Heckman Receives Prestigious Friendship Award from Chinese Government Chicago -...
2019 AERA Division D: Outstanding Dissertation Award goes to Xu Qin
Xu Qin (Ph.D., 2018, Department of Comparative Human Development University of Chicago) is the recipient of the 2019 AERA Division D: Outstanding Dissertation Award. The title of her dissertation is "Causal Mediation Analysis in Multisite Trials with an Evaluation of...
Professor Anthony Fowler Debunks Published Finding about Shark Attacks
Professor Anthony Fowler published 4-peer reviewed papers in 2018 including a prominent one, that debunked a published finding stating that shark attacks influence voting behavior and therefore voters irrationally respond to irrelevant events. Professor Fowler along...