Human Capital - The Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics

Measuring and Interpreting Inequality (MIE)

To understand and interpret frameworks for inequality in all of its manifestations using economic theory and the philosophy of social justice.

Jaime Ahlberg

University of Florida

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
David Autor

MIT

Professor of Economics and Associate Department Head
Alberto Bisin

New York University, Dept. of Economics

Professor
Anders Bjorklund

Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University

Professor
Dan Black

Harris School, University of Chicago

Professor
Sandra Black

University of Texas, Austin

Professor of Economics
Lawrence Blume

Cornell University, IHS (Vienna), Santa Fe Institute

Professor
Harry Brighouse

Coordinator(MIE)

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Professor of Philosophy
Caterina Calsamiglia

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, MOVE, Barcelona GSE

Professor
Kerwin Charles

University of Chicago

Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Harris School Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Dean Corbae

Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Professor
Steven Durlauf

Coordinator(MIE)

University of Wisconsin

Kenneth J. Arrow Professor Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, former Director of the Economics Program of the Sante Fe Institute
Zvi Eckstein

Interdeciplinary Center (IDC) Herzelia

Professor
Dennis Epple

Carnegie Mellon University

Thomas Lord Professor of Economics
Marc Fleurbaey

CNRS, Paris

Senior Researcher
James Foster

George Washington University

Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Sanjeev Goyal

Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Professor of Economics
Bryan Graham

University of California - Berkeley

Associate Professor
Carol Graham

The Brookings Institution

Senior Fellow and Charles Robinson Chair
John Hatfield

Stanford University

Assistant Professor of Political Economy
James Heckman

University of Chicago

Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago; Professor of Science and Society, Geary Institute and University College Dublin; Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation
Randi Hjalmarsson

Queen Mary, University of London

Reader
Yannis Ioannides

Department of Economics, Tufts University

Max and Herta Neubauer Professor of Economics
Sonia Jaffe

Harvard University

Graduate Student
A. J. Julius

UCLA

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Scott Kominers

Coordinator (MIE)

Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, University of Chicago

Research Scholar
Anthony Laden

University of Illinois at Chicago

Professor of Philosophy
Glenn Loury

Brown University

Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Economics
Bhashkar Mazumder

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Senior Economist & Director of Chicago RDC
Branko Milanovic

World Bank

Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Robert Moffitt

Johns Hopkins University

Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics
Stephen Morgan

Cornell University

Professor of Sociology
Stefano Mosso

University of Chicago

PhD Student
Daniel Nagin

Carnegie Mellon University

Teresa and H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics
Yusuke Narita

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D student
Ricardo Paes de Barros

IPEA, Brazil

Director, Social Policy and Research, National Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA)
Parag Pathak

MIT

Associate Professor
Kate Pickett

University of York

Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences
Debraj Ray

NYU

Silver Professor; Professor of Economics
Jonathan Riley

Tulane University

Professor, Philosophy & Political Economy
Ingrid Robeyns

Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Professor of Practical Philosophy
John Roemer

Yale University

Stout Professor Political Science & Economics
Ananth Seshadri

Brown University

Professor, Department of Economics
Timothy Smeeding

University of Wisconsin Madison

Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics
Lones Smith

University of Wisconsin

Professor
Gary Solon

Michigan State University

Professor of Economics
Martin Weidner

University College London

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics
Peyton Young

University of Oxford

James Meade Professor of Economics

The Becker-Friedman Institute for Research in Economics

Measuring and Interpreting Inequality (MIE)

Measuring and Interpreting Inequality (MIE)