Dr. Greg Kaplan

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Biography

Greg Kaplan is the Alvin H. Baum Professor in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and the College at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on macroeconomics, labor economics, and applied microeconomics, addressing fiscal and monetary policy, labor market dynamics, risk sharing, inequality, consumption behavior, household formation, and migration. Kaplan has published extensively on these topics and has served as a Lead Editor for the Journal of Political Economy and formerly as Editor for the Journal of Economic Dynamics. Additionally, he is a co-founder and Chairman of the e61 Institute and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, as well as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He also provides economic consulting for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Kaplan was awarded a Sloan Foundation fellowship in 2015 and received the Central Banking Prize in Economics in 2019. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from New York University in 2009.

Research Interests

Experience

Alvin H. Baum Professor

— Present

University of Chicago • Chicago, IL

Teaching and research in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and the College.

Awards

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Sloan Foundation Fellowship

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Central Banking Prize in Economics

Requirements for University of Chicago

Doctorate Program
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TOEFL
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Reading
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Writing
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IELTS
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Reading
Required:7
Writing
Required:7
Speaking
Required:7
Overall
Required:7
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Department of Philosophy