The University of Chicago

Research Analysis

  • Leaping Forward in ICU Care and Cost Management

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    Gillian Kindel

    While Dr. James Gasperino argues that the Affordable Care Act will put pressure on hospitals to increase their standards of care, he believes that cost-effectiveness will be driven by the private sector.

  • Credit Stagnation in the MENA

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    Bassam Aoun

    Credit market recovery in the Middle East and North African region will lag global economic recovery. Economic shortfalls are likely throughout the region and policymakers must take actions to dampen adverse effects.

  • A Sunny Perspective on the Future of Solar Energy

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    Evan Johnson

    Solyndra’s recent bankruptcy has sparked much debate about the market viability of solar energy. And while solar may not be as cost-effective as fossil fuels are now, a recent analysis finds that “solar power technologies in the US and Spain are likely to approach competitiveness with fossil-fired generation by around…

  • Increased Income Inequality Occupies Recent CBO Report

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    Frank Manzo IV

    In a well-timed recent report, the Congressional Budgets Office (CBO) provides a series of statistics that largely reinforce the concerns being raised in the Occupy Wall Street protests.

  • It’s Not Too Late for the MDGs

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    Claire Pritchard

    Opinions vary within the policy community about whether developing nations are disappointingly off-track to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the 2015 deadline set by the United Nations.

  • Fuel of Uncertainty

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    Bradley Crawford

    Biofuels are either essential to our energy independence and efforts to combat climate change or a boondoggle that threatens global food security. The World Bank’s Govinda R. Timilsina and Ashish Shrestha analyze this disconnect in “How Much Hope Should We Have for Biofuels?”, which weighs findings from dozens of studies…

  • Disparities in Home Are Disparities in Health

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    ashleegabrysch

    A family’s housing reality is often viewed as an index of its economic situation. However, Brian Jacob, Jens Ludwig, and Douglas Miller’s new NBER working paper joins a groundswell of research that demonstrates that housing situations are in fact proxies for much more than one’s socioeconomic status.

  • iFlating the U.S. Trade Deficit with China

    iFlating the U.S. Trade Deficit with China

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    James Ahrens

    While designed and marketed in Cupertino, California, the iPhone is estimated to have contributed $1.9 billion to the U.S. trade deficit with China in 2009. This is the finding of Yuqing Xing and Neal Detert, two economists with the Asian Development Bank Institute.

  • Where Are Charters the Answer?

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    Jen Cowhy

    Charters are commonly seen as the answer to urban school districts’ troubles. However, it appears that they are not the answer to education issues everywhere, and may not be the answer at all.

  • Greening the Rust Belt

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    Mike Sitkowski

    As the economy struggles to rebound and the foreclosure crisis takes its toll on American cities, vacant land and abandoned buildings continue to abound. For America’s once-great manufacturing cities, the impact has been even greater as metropolitan areas throughout the Midwest struggle to find an identity in a post-industrial world.…

  • Immergluck and the Evolution of the FHA

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    Harry Moroz

    Some might like to blame George Bush’s “ownership society,” with its emphasis on homeownership as a cure-all for social ills of all kinds, for the intrusion of the federal government into the housing and mortgage markets. But as Dan Immergluck explains in his recent article, government agencies – particularly the…