Economist Dr. Raj Chetty spoke at this year's Wellington Burham Lecture about equality of opportunity in America at 51 Winthrop St. on Oct. 15. The lecture, titled "Improving Equality of Opportunity ...

Economist Anne Case and Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton, a husband-and-wife duo at Princeton, will discuss health epidemics caused by rising inequality in the United States this Wednesday, Thursday and ...

Thomas Piketty lectured on his 2013 bestseller, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” last Friday in Memorial Auditorium. “Capital” explores wealth and income inequality in U.S. and western European ...

Bui Binh Minh, a senior at the British International School in Ho Chi Minh City, won admission to Stanford and several other top U.S. universities with a heartfelt essay about his father's youth ...

Guido W. Imbens, center, with his wife, Susan Athey, and three children. Guido Imbens was awarded the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Photo by Bjorn Carey/Stanford News Service.

Recognition for advances in auction theory and new auction formats. Nobel Prize in Economics 2020 awarded to Stanford professors Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson improved auction theory and devised new ...

Two Bay Area professors were jolted awake early Monday morning by phone calls from Sweden announcing perhaps the greatest professional achievement of their lives: a Nobel prize. One of them, however, ...