{"id":27003,"date":"2020-06-07T20:22:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T00:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/?page_id=27003"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:21:18","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Economic Research Activities<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research is central to Boston University. Here in the Economics Department, our faculty are researching topics like global warming, the effects of religious institutions on growth in developing countries, the relationship between race and homeownership in the US, credit risk and the Euro, healthcare innovation, and the effects of automation on employment in the US. In addition, the department is directly affiliated with the Institute for Economic Development (IED) \u2013 an institute dedicated to understanding economic transformation in developing countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check out the department\u2019s working papers, or learn more about the seminars and lectures we host by clicking on the tiles below:<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See where Economics Research can take you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15047,"featured_media":21427,"parent":0,"menu_order":57,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/landing.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27003"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38386,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27003\/revisions\/38386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}