How the World Works

Professor Nico Voigtländer studied inbreeding around history's monarchies and reached a novel conclusion

Ashvin Gandhi discovered operators lie about profits, care suffers and taxpayers keep them prosperous

Professor Olav Sorenson finds that location matters

Professor Margaret Shih and Ph.D. candidate Gloria Cheng find perceptions and realities don't align

UCLA Anderson Forecast Director Jerry Nickelsburg goes through the scenarios

As Gregor Schubert found, migration patterns elicit predictable economic effects

Assistant Professor Hanne Collins connects the art of conversation with the science

Professor Keith Chen, Assistant Professor Kareem Haggag and co-authors examined 40,000 voting locations from the 2016 election

Climate economist Zhiyun Li weighs the value of food production against energy production

Pushing for efficiency and profits, according to Charles Corbett, causes turnover and unhappiness

Hengchen Dai studies “the nudge,” and focused on how UCLA Health nudged people to get the COVID vaccines

After a rigorous process, Brian Wheaton found that facts do not sway the beliefs of left- or right-leaning people

Professor of Behavioral Economics and Genomics Dan Benjamin has devised an index, scoring each U.S. locale  

Francisco Castro looked into the pratfalls of generative AI creating content from its content

Brett Hollenbeck's study uncovers the deleterious effects on public health over a ten-year period

Clemence Tricaud looked at comparable municipal elections and pandemic policies to reveal a tidy social experiment hiding beneath

Jennifer Kao shows that a large number of cancer studies don't publicly share trial results, despite the federal disclosure requirements

Marvin Lieberman shows how these leviathans have distinct strategies and methods for growth

As Gonzalo Freixes explains, lobbyists from the largest U.S. companies have prevented lawmakers from fixing our corporate tax shelter problem  

Scott Rodilitz dove deep into the No. 1 platform to engage volunteers and devised a way to better distribute the work

Beatrice Michaeli uncovers the cost of investors' knee-jerk reactions, under-reactions and mis-reads

Judson Caskey examines how the push for quarterly returns often leads to injuries and a false representation

Gregor Schubert shows how new the generative AI tools are a boon to the major companies that use them

Professor Hal Hershfield knows how the "today you" can make the "tomorrow you" happy

Tyler Muir explains how the Fed created an expectation

Romain Wacziarg found that agriculture was foundational to development, but calvary was an accelerator

Cassie Holmes' research and book reveal the methods to control your happiness

Stavros Panageas shows us how the national debt could lead to a dangerous economic event

Brett Hollenbeck's and Sherry He's research is an exposé on the pervasiveness of fake reviews

It doesn't have to be this way, Felipe Caro explains. Both just need to be understood

Jennifer Whitson discovered that believers feel they are losing control, so bad information can feel elegant and validating

For 70 Years, the UCLA Anderson Forecast has predicted the future of the economy. Jerry Nickelsburg tells us what's in store.

Magali Delmas' new transparency study shows change is possible when companies truthfully report ESG metrics

Aimee Drolet Rossi's discoveries indicate great potential for change

Mark Garmaise looked to Japan's post-tsunami used car market to illuminate the current one

Alicea Lieberman found that people feel the material more than content through speakers

We identify bad environmental practices well, but aren't creating great outcomes, Charles Corbett explains

Forecaster Leo Feler gives reasons for the 7% – and a mea culpa

Using masculine words for male-dominated positions will backfire, according to Joyce He

We asked a number of our faculty about the ups and downs of chasing insight, or even work that matters

Misconceptions and stereotypes can hold back women everywhere, according to Corinne Bendersky

Chris Tang examines the power and vulnerability of tiny retail outlets

As Stavros Panageas tells us, it gives the pessimists in the market a voice

Elisabeth Honka finds consumers peter out, leaving money on the table

Stephen Spiller spots the optimism behind a decrease in new cases

Dan Benjamin thoroughly shakes down the classic marshmallow test

Economist Ed Leamer pulls no punches looking at our societal issues

Economist Leo Feler weighs consumer behavior, universal basic income

Vice Chancellor Margaret Shih explains the cultural and workplace conflicts

What motivates employees extends into the U.S. as well, according to Sherry Wu

Magali Delmas found the quality is higher but eco-labeling would leave a sour note