While the health effects of COVID-19 are being widely reported, less is known about the economic, social, and security impacts of the pandemic, particularly in the developing world. Bush School faculty member Jessica Gottlieb is helping to answer those questions. Backed by a grant from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), one of […]
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Are Artificial Intelligence Tools Biased?
Research shows that facial recognition software makes a lot of mistakes and is particularly inaccurate on darker-skinned faces. Those errors can turn innocent people into suspects when used by police to identify criminals. The criminal justice system also uses risk assessment algorithms to assist in bail and sentencing recommendations that have been shown to overate […]
Dr. Cortes’s Research Supports Lessening Barriers for DREAMers
For years, the United States has been grappling unsuccessfully with what to do about undocumented immigrant youth brought to the United States as children. Efforts have included the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA); the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, first introduced in 2001 but not yet passed; and the […]
Bush School Capstone Team Studies Sustainable Funding for Texas Wildlife Conservation
If the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (H.R. 3742) passes, Texas will need to come up with $20 million in non-federal funding in order to receive $60 million in federal funding. At the request of the Boone and Crockett Club, a Bush School of Government and Public Service Capstone team undertook to determine the best and […]
COVID-19 No Match for the Forces of Global Trade
While COVID-19 has us all keenly aware of global supply chain challenges, a new issue of The Takeaway, COVID-19 No Match for the Forces of Global Trade: It Is Too Early to Declare the End of the Current Era of Globalization, explains the basic reasons why international trade has skyrocketed in recent years and why those […]
Bush School Student Project Warns about Chinese Reverse Merger Fraud
The research for the latest issue of The Takeaway, Shell Games: Chinese Reverse Merger Fraud, was done by Bush School and Texas A&M students as part of a larger project led by Dr. Will Norris on Chinese economic statecraft. The lead author, Benjamin Zimmer, is a recent graduate of the Bush School of Government and Public […]
The Humanitarian Response To COVID-19
COLLEGE STATION, TX – In this time of unprecedented travel bans, supply chain disruptions and business shutdowns, the COVID-19 pandemic is a threat that will cost the global economy trillions of dollars and exacerbate unrest and violence in developing nations. In the latest issue of The Takeaway, an assistant professor of information and operations management […]
Conflict Lobbying in the United States
COLLEGE STATION, TX – In the latest issue of The Takeaway, Lobbying Battles in the Libyan War, Bush School of Government & Public Service faculty member Reyko Huang uses the Libyan war lobby to illustrate how, and why, both foreign governments and their armed opponents actively lobby the US government. She points out that millions […]
Education Policy Workshop Highlights Research on Targeted Education Supports
On March 3, 2020, Dr. Thomas Dee, Professor of Education at Stanford University, presented an Education Policy Workshop titled “My Brother’s Keeper? The Effects of Targeted Education Supports” at the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library. In his talk, Dr. Dee argued that targeted educational programs can have an impact on the educational achievement of […]
Bush School Speaker Urges New Approach to Development
On February 19, 2020, Dr. Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Scientist at the World Bank’s Development Research Group, gave a talk titled “Now for the Hard Part: Alternative Paths to Building State Capability for Policy Implementation.” The event was hosted by the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy at the Bush School of Government […]
