How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

Science has learned how to get people to do things, especially for public health

Hengchen Dai studies “the nudge,” and focused on how UCLA Health nudged people to get the COVID vaccines

The Partisan Divide, Put to the Test

After a rigorous process, Brian Wheaton found that facts do not sway the beliefs of left- or right-leaning people

Beyond GDP, Consider the Entire Nation’s Well-Being

Professor of Behavioral Economics and Genomics Dan Benjamin has devised an index, scoring each U.S. locale

 

AI, Fed a Diet of AI Content: Intellectual Malnutrition

Francisco Castro looked into the pratfalls of generative AI creating content from its content

What Happens When Dollar Stores Come to Town

Brett Hollenbeck’s study uncovers the deleterious effects on public health over a ten-year period

Research Shows Female Political Candidates Are Judged More Harshly by Voters

Clemence Tricaud looked at comparable municipal elections and pandemic policies to reveal a tidy social experiment hiding beneath

One of the Most Important Findings in Cancer Research

Jennifer Kao shows that a large number of cancer studies don’t publicly share trial results, despite the federal disclosure requirements

Going Big, Differently: Amazon Versus Google

Marvin Lieberman shows how these leviathans have distinct strategies and methods for growth

In One Major Respect, Big Tech Is Allied with the GOP

As Gonzalo Freixes explains, lobbyists from the largest U.S. companies have prevented lawmakers from fixing our corporate tax shelter problem

 

Social Impact Work in the U.S. Has Been Held Back by a Major Recruiting Issue

Scott Rodilitz dove deep into the No. 1 platform to engage volunteers and devised a way to better distribute the work