Public Policy
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No Adult Left Behind: Automation, Job Loss, and Education Policy
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Artificial intelligence forces important education policy questions into the national landscape. Automation has only gotten cheaper and more prolific through the introduction of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Self-check-out and autonomous driving have taken center stage in the labor automation discussion but just around the corner is a wave of…
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Solving Public Problems: An Interview with Dr. Beth Simone Noveck
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This article was co-authored by Molly Smith and Ellie Vorhaben. Dr. Beth Simone Noveck is a professor at Northeastern University where she is core faculty at the Institute of Experiential AI, and director of the Burnes Family Center for Global Impact. She is the Director of The Governance Lab, a…
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This Is Why We Nudge: Reaffirming Nobel Winner Richard Thaler’s ‘Nudge’
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In October 2017, Richard Thaler won the University of Chicago its 29th Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to behavioral economics. Stockholm’s nod to Thaler is less coup than coronation, of both Thaler himself and of the broad applicability and value of behavioral economics as an indispensable discipline,…
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Professor Martha C. Nussbaum: A Conversation on Emotion and Public Policy
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This interview is the last part of the Chicago Policy Review’s 20th Anniversary Series. Please visit us here to learn more about the series from our Executive Editors. When discussing social responses to crime, you mention that punishment implies a recognition of failure of our current mechanisms to prevent crime. Additionally, you…
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CPR Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
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The Chicago Policy Review celebrates 20 years of bridging the gap between policy research and the real world.
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Confronting an Unseen Problem: Abuse and Its Long-Term Effects on Incarcerated Juveniles
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A new study suggests widespread abuses in detention facilities for juveniles are associated with a host of negative long-term effects, from post-traumatic stress to criminal involvement.