How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

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UCLA Anderson

72 episodes

7 months ago

How the World Works is a podcast by UCLA Anderson, led by Warren Olney about faculty research.

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How the World Works is a podcast by UCLA Anderson, led by Warren Olney about faculty research.

Education

Episodes (20/72)

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

What Is the Potential of One Leader to Change the World?

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

7 months ago

24 minutes 33 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

The Incredible Prevalence of Crookedness in the Nursing Home Business

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

8 months ago

32 minutes 31 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

Does Diversity Really Enhance Workforces?

Professor Olav Sorenson finds that location matters

9 months ago

20 minutes 29 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

Views on Democracy: Analyzing January 6 and Post-Election Periods

Professor Margaret Shih and Post doctoral Scholar Gloria Cheng find perceptions and realities don’t align

10 months ago

23 minutes 57 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

What Will Happen With the Trump Tariffs?

UCLA Anderson Forecast Director Jerry Nickelsburg goes through the scenarios

11 months ago

24 minutes 40 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

People Who Move To More Affordable Cities Bring Less Affordability

As Gregor Schubert found, migration patterns elicit predictable economic effects

11 months ago

22 minutes 8 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

This Episode Could Change Your Listening and Conversation Habits Forever

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

1 year ago

31 minutes 24 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

Voting Lines Have Been 24% Longer in Predominantly Black Polling Locations

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

1 year ago

27 minutes 14 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

What Happens When Farmland Is Given Up For Large Solar Installations?

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

1 year ago

14 minutes 44 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

The Speed of the Current Economy Makes Us Do “Stupid Stuff”

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

1 year ago

31 minutes 3 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

Science has learned how to get people to do things, especially for public health

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

1 year ago

36 minutes 48 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

The Partisan Divide, Put to the Test

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

1 year ago

25 minutes 27 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

Beyond GDP, Consider the Entire Nation’s Well-Being

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

1 year ago

20 minutes 12 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

AI, Fed a Diet of AI Content: Intellectual Malnutrition

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

1 year ago

24 minutes 56 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

What Happens When Dollar Stores Come to Town

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

1 year ago

19 minutes 26 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

Research Shows Female Political Candidates Are Judged More Harshly by Voters

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

1 year ago

22 minutes 39 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

One of the Most Important Findings in Cancer Research

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

1 year ago

18 minutes 2 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

Going Big, Differently: Amazon Versus Google

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

2 years ago

19 minutes 16 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

In One Major Respect, Big Tech Is Allied with the GOP

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

2 years ago

23 minutes 20 seconds

How the World Works - UCLA Anderson

Social Impact Work in the U.S. Has Been Held Back by a Major Recruiting Issue

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

2 years ago

28 minutes 31 seconds