Chad Syverson
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- John Haltiwanger
- John Shea
Chad Syverson | |
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| Academic background | |
| Education | University of North Dakota (BA), University of Maryland (PhD) |
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| Discipline | Industrial organization |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
| Awards | Distinguished Fellow Award, Industrial Organization Society (2025) |
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Chad Syverson is an economics professor at the University of Chicago. His research forces on industrial organization and productivity. In 2020 he was named the George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the Chicago Booth School of Business. In 2025, he became Deputy Director of the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics.
Syverson grew up in Fargo and Grand Forks, North Dakota.[1] He attended the University of North Dakota and earned bachelors degrees in both economics and mechanical engineering. Of the relationship between these fields, he said, “My engineering background definitely spurred my research interest in productivity. I like to visit factories and investigate how things are put together, what can go wrong when they are, and what factors influence companies’ operating success.”[2]
Syverson earned a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Maryland in 2001. One advisor was John Haltiwanger, with whom he continued to coauthor.[3]
