Our world-class department owes its reputation to outstanding faculty dedicated to teaching and research, as well as engaged students who take advantage of learning opportunities in and beyond the classroom.
The Economics major and minor are open to all undergraduates. The Ph.D. program has 125 students in residence.
Learn about faculty accomplishments, publications and news.
Our distinguished faculty includes fellows of the American Economic Association, members of the National Academy of Sciences and editors of the American Economic Review and other prestigious journals. Longtime faculty member Dale Mortensen was winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Economics.
Harry Pei has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Pei is an assistant professor of economics at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences whose research focuses on game theory. He will receive $462,400 over five years from NSF’s Division of Social and Economic Sciences to hire and mentor research assistants.
Created from the Ryan Family’s historic $480 million gift, announced by the University in September 2021, the Morton Schapiro Center for Applied Economics will fuel innovative research made possible by the power of advanced computing and big data.
Learn about the innovative research of our faculty.
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM, Evanston
Amy Finkelstein (MIT): Targeting Overuse of Home Health Care: Evidence from Multiple Policy Instruments (with Liran Einav, Yunan Ji, an...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Aureo de Paula (UCL): Estimating Production Functions with Expectations Data Abstract: Standard methods for estimating production funct...
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Evanston
DGS Marciano Siniscalchi, and Associate Chair Ian Savage will cover important deadlines, degree requirements, and good-progress milesto...
