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1. Measuring Medicaid |
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Does Medicaid expansion aid the health care system by keeping the uninsured out of the emergency room? Not according to research by Harris Public Policy dean Katherine Baicker. More » |
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Hear Baicker discuss Medicaid's successes and challenges on the University's new podcast, Big Brains. |
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Learn how reporting medical costs could reform health care. |
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2. An academic life |
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In her memoir, Hanna Holborn Gray reflects on a career of firsts--including as the first woman president of UChicago. More » |
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Watch Gray discuss her career and the University's mission. |
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Read Gray's opinion on the "subversive" purpose of universities. |
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3. Dismal science |
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Economists have lost their creativity, courage, and reformist vision, says law professor Eric Posner, LAB'84, and lack solutions for rising inequality and authoritarian populism.
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Learn why Posner and the Chicago school have been an unexpected voice in antitrust law. |
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Learn why economists are split on antitrust reform in the big tech era. |
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4. South Side memories |
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The South Side Home Movie Project, which preserves historical images of everyday middle-class life, is now an online archive available to the public. More » |
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Explore the Home Movie Project's online collections. |
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Rewind to the project's beginnings with founder Jacqueline Stewart, AM'93, PhD'99, who rejoined the UChicago faculty in 2013. |
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5. Protocols of privacy |
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Why using a genealogy website's DNA database to catch the Golden State Killer is murky territory, according to NORC forensics expert John Roman. More » |
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Read Roman's opinion on the privacy law implications of this case. |
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