Diane Swonk, the chief economist at Grant Thornton and an acclaimed macroeconomist who frequently advises the Federal Reserve, has given a generous gift to Harris Public Policy to further the research of faculty working on gender inequality issues.

A new study from the University of Chicago concluded that “dynamic” pricing is more effective than moral persuasion on its own for changing customer behaviors in the long run.

Surprisingly little is known about what the relationship between a patient and her primary-care doctor is worth. David Meltzer may be the first and only researcher in the country to quantify that value in a randomized clinical trial.