Peer Reviewed Research

Simulated Power Analyses for Observational Studies: An Application to the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion

Journal of Public Economics

2023

Using an applied example – the link between gaining health insurance and mortality – Alex Hollingsworth and colleagues conduct a simulated power analysis to outline the importance of power and ways to estimate power in complex research settings.

The Journal of Law and Economics

2023

Alex Hollingsworth's new research finds that recreational laws increase past-year marijuana use by 25 percent among adults and by 10 percent among adolescents.

Polluting under the Radar: Emissions, Inequality, and Concrete Batch Plants in Houston

Environmental Science & Technology

2023

Alex Hollingsworth and colleagues show that concrete batch plants in Houston, TX are collectively a large source of pollution, emitting between 38 and 111 tons of primary PM2.5 emissions annually and being disproportionately located in census tracts with more low-income, Hispanic, and Black populations.

Convergence Research as a ‘System-of-Systems’: A Framework and Research Agenda

Minerva

2023

Researchers Lisa Gajary, Anand Desai and colleagues present a multilevel research agenda that accounts for a complex systems understanding of Convergence Research, one of the U.S. National Science Foundation's "10 Big Ideas" and top strategic approaches to address grand societal challenges.

Utilities Policy

2023

This study from Ned Hill and colleagues investigates the effects of electric utility restructuring on the cost of generated electricity, increases in the regulated portions of customers’ bills, and changes in customers’ average total electricity price in restructured states relative to similar states that remained regulated.

Women are credited less in science than men

Nature

2023

Bruce Weinberg and colleagues study the reasons women are less likely to be named on a given article or patent produced by their team relative to their male peers.

Geothermics

2023

In this study, Jeff Bielicki and colleagues develop and implement analytical solutions for calculating reservoir impedance, reservoir heat depletion, and wellbore heat loss in sedimentary reservoirs that are laterally extensive, homogeneous, horizontally isotropic and have uniform thickness.

Nature Water

2023

Jeff Bielicki and colleagues investigate the CO2 emission and energy penalty due to the deployment of dry cooling—a critical water mitigation strategy—together with alternative water sourcing and carbon capture and storage under climate scenarios.

China’s use of formal science and technology agreements as a tool of diplomacy

Science and Public Policy

2023

Caroline Wagner studies the use of diplomatic tools by China's government in pursuit of foreign policy goals.

Methods and lessons for business resilience and recovery surveys

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

2023

Noah Dormady and colleagues address the lack of tailored guidance for conducting business resilience and recovery surveys by collecting and synthesizing instruments and best practices from previous survey efforts.