{"id":2005,"date":"2019-03-01T16:45:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T16:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cehd.uchicago.edu\/?page_id=2005"},"modified":"2019-05-08T16:36:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T16:36:44","slug":"university-of-chicago-policy-forum-assessing-the-contributions-of-behavioral-economics-to-economic-science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cehd.uchicago.edu\/?page_id=2005","title":{"rendered":"University of Chicago Policy Forum: Assessing the Contributions of Behavioral Economics to Economic Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Panelists:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/bfi.uchicago.edu\/people\/colin-camerer\">Colin Camerer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/econ.columbia.edu\/econpeople\/michael-woodford\/\">Michael Woodford<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/itzhakgilboa.weebly.com\/\">Itzhak Gilboa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moderated by<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/larspeterhansen.org\/\">Lars Peter Hansen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/heckmanequation.org\/about-professor-heckman\/\">James Heckman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bfi.uchicago.edu\/initiative\/mfri\">Macro Finance Research Program<\/a> (MFR),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cehd.uchicago.edu\/\">Center for the Economics of Human Development <\/a>(CEHD), and <a href=\"https:\/\/harris.uchicago.edu\/\">Harris Public Policy<\/a>\u00a0launched the\u201cUniversity of Chicago Policy Forum: Building on the Chicago Approach to Economics\u201d\u00a0in Spring of 2019. 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