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COVID 2025: How The Pandemic Is Changing Our World

New episodes of the series "COVID 2025: Our World in the Next 5 Years" will be released regularly on the UChicago YouTube channel and on the UChicago News site.
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Why Unemployment Claims Don’t Capture The Full Economic Impact Of COVID-19

For Professor Dan Black, the speed of the current economic shutdown is what makes the future so cloudy.
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Researchers Address Life Under COVID-19

Dean Katherine Baicker and Professor Oeindrila Dube work with an international team to highlight behavioral approaches toward combating bias and fake news, increasing cooperation, and coping with stress and isolation.

Confronting COVID-19: Inequality, Debt, and the Fight for a Better Financial Future

Join Michael Belsky, AM’83, for a discussion about how evidence-based public policy can ease the burden on the hardest-hit populations during a pandemic that exacerbates our growing inequality.

Confronting COVID-19: Coronavirus in Contexts of Conflict and Postconflict

Join Kara Ross Camarena, Postdoctoral Scholar at Harris Public Policy and Associate at The Pearson Institute, to learn more from experts with experience working in these challenging contexts.
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Alumni Profile: Laura Keen, MPP’20, Pearson Fellow

“People told me that grad school would change the way I approach problems, and that certainly has proven true.”
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Professor and Deputy Dean Ethan Bueno de Mesquita Discusses Changing Social Norms During COVID-19

Leaders who are willing to choose new behaviors such as mask-wearing during the coronavirus pandemic play a valuable role in setting the social norms which make the general populace comfortable changing their behavior.
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Baicker, Dube Discuss "Super-Spreaders" and Sectors of Concern During COVID-19

The risks associated with reopening spaces of public life are not uniform because the logistics of the experiences differ. For instance, gym-goers maintain more physical distance than people at a fast food restaurant, but they tend to stay longer.

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Information about how employers can partner with the Harris Public Policy Career Development Office to meet their employment needs and recruit on-campus.
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COVID-19 Pandemic Inspires Scholars to Change Course

Upended by the COVID-19 crisis, the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy had scratched its spring quarter Study Abroad Program—including the course in Barcelona with Prof. Christopher Berry and Assoc. Prof. Anthony Fowler.

Virtual Chat with Data and Policy Summer Scholar Program Admissions

Please join us for a virtual chat to answer any questions you may have about the Data and Policy Summer Scholar Program