Research

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The UChicago Inclusive Economy Lab (formerly Poverty Lab), housed at the Harris School of Public Policy, has released the results of a comprehensive new study, done in conjunction with Chicago Public Schools.
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As Congress works on a bipartisan infrastructure bill and budget reconciliation package, a new analysis provides important economic insight into the energy and climate provisions that are part of—or should be part of—that work.
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A new study finds that the administrative burdens created when physicians and insurers haggle over reimbursement payments result in substantial lost revenue for healthcare providers.
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Frank and his co-author, Ann Ferris, examined the impacts on the timber sector of the 1990 listing of the northern spotted owl as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, specifically changes in industry employment.
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More than half of people residing in homeless shelters in the United States had formal earnings in the same year they were homeless, according to a new study that deepens understanding of housing insecurity in the U.S.
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For much of American history, the books that children read have largely centered on white, male characters—but is that starting to change? Not very much, and not very quickly, suggests new research from the University of Chicago.