Kevin Murphy
Faculty Steering Committee
George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics in the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Kevin M. Murphy’s research focuses on the empirical analysis of inequality, unemployment, and relative wages; the economics of growth and development; and the economic value of improvements in health and longevity. More than 60 of Murphy’s research papers have been published in academic journals including the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, and American Economic Review.
Murphy is the co-editor, with Robert Topel, of Measuring the Gains from Medical Research: An Economic Approach and co-author, with Gary S. Becker, of Social Economics: Market Behavior in a Social Environment.He is a faculty research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Murphy was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2005 by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He is the first professor at a business school to be chosen as a MacArthur Fellow in the 25 years that the awards have been given. In 1997, Murphy received the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association.
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Papers Presented
- Terminal Care and the Value of Life Near Its End
- Explaining the World Wide Boom in Higher Education of Women