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For solar power to truly provide affordable energy access, we need to deploy it better

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

"The solar revolution is happening fast in Africa," said Pamela Jagger, a professor at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability. "But it could be delivering more meaningful energy services to a larger number of people, and it needs to be."

Journal: Energy Research & Social Science
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

Telemedicine visits cost 5x less than office visits

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers analyzed billing data and found that telemedicine visits were both five times cheaper, on average, than in-person appointments, and resulted in fewer follow-up appointments

Journal: JAMA Network Open

Too much transparency can hurt financial markets

University of Texas at Austin
Peer-Reviewed Publication

These days, transparency is a financial buzzword, but new research from Michael Sockin found that, in some cases, less transparency can lead to better economic outcomes.

Journal: Journal of Economic Theory

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Charles Manski for incorporating uncertainty into economic research and its application to public policy analysis

BBVA Foundation
Grant and Award Announcement

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards in Economics, Finance and Management has gone in this eighteenth edition to Charles F. Manski for his pioneering contributions to the measurement of uncertainty in economic research and its application to public policy analysis. The professor at Northwestern University (Chicago, United States) is described by the committee as a “foundational figure” in the development of modern methods that have transformed how economists infer conclusions from data, report degrees of uncertainty in their models, and evaluate public policies in the face of incomplete evidence.

Smarter shelf strategy can boost retail profits and cut food waste by more than 20%, new study finds

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Grocery retailers may not need new technology—or behavior change from shoppers—to meaningfully reduce food waste. New research in the INFORMS journal Management Science finds that small operational decisions already under a retailer’s control, including how perishable items are displayed and when (and how much) they’re discounted, can increase profits while reducing spoilage.

Journal: Management Science

As health care goes digital, patients are being left behind

University of California - San Francisco
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Patients are now expected to navigate much of their care online — from seeing their doctor on a screen to booking appointments, refilling prescriptions, and checking test results through health care portals. 

Journal: JMIR Formative Research
Funder: NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), NIH/National Institute on Aging, NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, UCSF Population Health and Health Equity Funding, California Health Care Foundation

Women more likely to choose wine from female winemakers

Washington State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Promoting women’s ownership in wineries can boost sales among the largest group of U.S. wine consumers, who happen to be women.

Journal: International Journal of Hospitality Management

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