In collaboration with faculty and fellow students, you’ll conduct innovative research and prepare for a successful career in academia, industry, or government.
The research community in the Stevens Doctoral Program at Booth thrives on rigorous analysis, debate, and collaboration. Our faculty share a dedication to tackling research questions and to working closely with PhD students as they develop their own research skills.
Chicago Booth Review publishes research-driven insights on business, policy, and markets. This Chicago Booth publication regularly features the work of our PhD students.
Chicago Booth researchers find that the expanded use of contract workers in India has helped counter a dip in manufacturing productivity.
How Contract Labor Is Boosting Indian Manufacturing
Chicago Booth PhD student David Andrew Finer’s analysis of taxi activity around Fed blackout periods suggests possible meetings between Fed employees and commercial bankers.
Inside Information from the Fed? Follow That Cab
Research conducted by University of Buffalo’s Indranil Goswami for his Chicago Booth PhD dissertation—in collaboration with Booth’s Oleg Urminsky—investigates whether being temporarily paid to do something changes your long-term motivation.
Short-Term Rewards Don’t Sap Long-Term MotivationFor some PhD students, their journey leads them to one or more of our world-renowned research centers. Many offer financial support for PhD student research. A great deal of faculty research is conducted under the auspices of our research centers, which in turn are a draw for recruiting top faculty to our research community.
The Chookaszian Accounting Research Center coordinates accounting research at Booth and hosts research brown bags and workshops. It also publishes the Journal of Accounting Research, one of the top accounting research journals in the world.
The Chookaszian Accounting Research Center
Bringing together researchers from the entire Chicago economics community, the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics fosters novel insights on the world’s most difficult economic problems.
Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
The Center for Applied AI supports researchers from across Booth and UChicago in making revolutionary advances in the applications of AI. Their work touches fields as diverse as finance, health care, public policy, education, and behavioral science.
Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence
Positioned at the forefront of the rapidly developing field of behavioral science, CDR is devoted to building a richer understanding of human behavior and experience.
Roman Family Center for Decision Research
An affiliate of Chicago Booth, CRSP, LLC is the leading provider of historical stock market data for researchers. The center has long been an integral part of the academic and commercial world of financial and economic research.
Center for Research in Security Prices, LLC
With a mission to push the boundaries of research in finance, the Fama-Miller Center provides institutional structure and support for researchers in the field.
Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance
The Stigler Center promotes and disseminates research on regulatory capture, crony capitalism, and the various distortions that special interest groups impose on capitalism.
George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State
The Healthcare Initiative serves as a center of gravity for the diverse disciplines that engage in healthcare research at Booth and across the university.
Healthcare Initiative
The Clark Center for Global Markets organizes Booth faculty efforts to influence public policy and the practice of business around the world. By hosting expert panels, visiting thought leaders, and conferences, the Clark Center raises the impact of Booth research.
Kent A. Clark Center for Global Markets
The Kilts Center for Marketing advances marketing at Booth by facilitating faculty research, supporting innovation in Booth’s marketing curriculum, funding scholarships, and creating engaging programs.
James M. Kilts Center for Marketing
The Polsky Center bridges the gap between knowledge and practice, idea and action, and research and impact through education, partnerships, and new venture creation.
Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
As Booth’s social impact hub, the Rustandy Center offers hands-on learning opportunities, supports innovative courses, and pursues research—all with the goal of developing people and practices with the potential to solve the world’s biggest problems.
Rustandy Center for Social Sector InnovationBooth has an information technology team dedicated to ensuring that PhD students have the support they need to conduct research. One of these resources is Booth’s Mercury Computing Cluster, a high-performance computing environment for the exclusive use of Booth researchers. Learn more about the Mercury Computing Cluster.
A gift from Joseph Pichler, MBA ’63, PhD ’66, and Susan Pichler in 2007 established the Pichler Initiative on Professional Development. Led by professor Harry L. Davis, the initiative helps support activities that promote professional development for students in the Stevens Program, including helping PhD students develop stronger writing, presentation, and job-market skills. With more than 30 programs each year, the Pichler Initiative supports the Stevens Program’s collaborative community by helping to develop cohort-based and cross-cohort programs, fostering peer support at all levels of the Stevens Program.
Explore predoctoral opportunities on the Pathways to Research and Doctoral Careers (PREDOC) website. PREDOC is a consortium of universities and research institutions that aims to foster a talented, diverse, and inclusive population in the quantitative social sciences.