Regulatory Incentives for Innovation: The FDA's Breakthrough Therapy Designation
Regulators of new products confront a tradeoff between speeding a new product to market and collecting additional product quality information.
Research
Use of smartphone mobility data to analyze city park visits during the COVID-19 pandemic
Abstract Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic focused attention on city parks as important public resources. However, monitoring park use over time poses practical challenges.
Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials
This article examines the consequences and causes of low enrollment of Black patients in clinical trials.
Using General Messages to Persuade on a Politicized Scientific Issue
Politics and science have become increasingly intertwined.
Chapter 13: Economists' analyses of technological change
This contribution surveys significant contributions technological innovations have made to humans' economic and material welfare, the seminal analysis made by noted economists, and the supportive poli
Primary Care Physician Gender and Electronic Health Record Workload
Background Prior research indicates that female physicians spend more time working in the electronic health record (EHR) than do male physicians. Objective To examine gender differences in EHR usage
Introduction to the Symposium on Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
We live in the digital century.
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation
One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated.
Measuring racial and ethnic disparities in traffic enforcement with large-scale telematics data
Past studies have found that racial and ethnic minorities are more likely than White drivers to be pulled over by the police for alleged traffic infractions, including a combination of speeding and eq
Building Mass Support for Global Pandemic Recovery Efforts in the United States
Containing the COVID-19 pandemic will confer global benefits that greatly exceed the costs but effective solutions require the redistribution of vaccines, technology, and other scarce resources from h
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