Perfect Pairing

Thirty-nine states now require personal finance courses. But preparing students means more than teaching them to manage their finances, it means giving them the tools to understand the forces shaping their opportunities.

If technology was supposed to make location irrelevant to opportunity, why is new business growth more concentrated today than it was 30 years ago?

STEM access has expanded dramatically since Raj Chetty identified America's 'lost Einsteins,' but the data suggests that wider exposure alone isn't closing the innovation gap.

Now that it’s warm in Chicago, UChicago E4E faculty and our partners from near and far share their favorite books, articles, blogs, and podcasts that illuminate economics and our world in relevant, approachable, and interesting ways. Check out the list...

Are the Wrigley Field vendors watching our E4E videos? At an early spring game, we noticed they were harnessing the power of behavioral economics and left-digit bias. Discover how our brains use mental shortcuts to make buying decisions, and you’ll...

Concepts like factors of production, supply and demand, and price elasticity all help explain why the war in Iran causes U.S. gas prices to spike. 

Economics and data science provide the foundation to transform passive students into active investigators who interrogate the data shaping their world.

Why does a cappuccino arrive without a central planner? Grounded in ongoing Chilean economic debates and using relevant examples for students, Universidad Andrés Bello’s adaptation of E4E’s university course asks students to move beyond ideology to analyze the specific conditions...