Faculty & Research Published Research Economics Social Psychology Education Health Policy Social Entrepreneurship Ethics Environmental Policy Leadership National Security Advocacy International and Global Affairs Racial Justice and Equity Research and Commentary Facet Area of Focus - Research Craig Volden Christopher J. Ruhm Bala Mulloth Eileen Chou Sarah Turner Benjamin Converse Christine Mahoney Edgar O. Olsen Timothy Wilson James H. Wyckoff Sophie Trawalter William Shobe Charles Holt Harry Harding Jeanine Braithwaite John Pepper Richard Bonnie Benjamin Castleman Daniel W. Player Leora Friedberg Molly Lipscomb Daphna Bassok David Leblang James Savage Frederick P. Hitz Gerald Warburg Jay Shimshack Paul S. Martin Raymond C. Scheppach Ruth Gaare Bernheim Sebastian Tello-Trillo Adam Leive Andrew S. Pennock Isaac Mbiti Jennifer Lawless John Holbein Facet People - Research Center for Effective Lawmaking Global Policy Center Facet UVA Partner - Research Social Entrepreneurship New Case - Culinary Concepts AB and the Employment Crisis in Food and Beverage in Charlottesville Authors: Bala Mulloth, Antwon Brinson Antwon Brinson believes in the power of culinary arts to bring about systemic social change. This case study addresses how Antwon’s social venture, Culinary Concepts AB (CCAB), approached the employment crisis felt throughout the food and beverage industry, by teaching life skills through culinary arts. Learn more Education New Case - ReadWrite Digital: Improving Student Outcomes Through Educational Innovation Authors: Bala Mulloth, William Carden, Elizabeth Carden ReadWrite Digital is an education technology startup that offers software to K–12 schools in the United States to provide education analytics and personalized education planning. Founded in 2012 by Rob Simms, the current President and CTO, ReadWrite Digital built, developed, and launched two unique products, Integrator and Analytics, providing an end-to-end solution for data collection from disparate systems creating rich analytics for student performance in one place. Learn more Social Entrepreneurship New Case - RVA Works: Empowering Entrepreneurs for Big Change Authors: Bala Mulloth, Dale Fickett RVA Works (a shortening of Richmond, Virginia Works) is a public charity, which has demonstrated superior efficacy in educational programming for entrepreneurship. Since 2014, their work has primarily focused on providing pathways to business ownership for ethnic minorities, women, and lower-income people. Learn more Social Entrepreneurship Exploring Social Business Pathways: Green Map System as a Case in Point Authors: Bala Mulloth Social entrepreneurship holds promise as a way for organizations to create value for both individuals and communities. The objective of this paper is to observe and analyze the ways Green Map System, a not-for-profit social venture, supports sustainable community development and local leadership by sharing tools, icons, and technology for mapping eco-sites around the world. The role of technology and digital networks, as well as the impact of global linkages, is also observed and emphasized. Learn more Mobilize for Our Lives? School Shootings and Democratic Accountability in U.S. Elections Authors: John Holbein, Hans J. G. Hassell, Matthew Baldwin Gun violence is a large and growing problem in the United States. Many reformers look towards elections to spur policy change in this area. In this paper, we explore the effects of school shootings on electoral mobilization and election outcomes. Learn more Disparities in PM2.5 air pollution in the United States Authors: Jay Shimshack, Jonathan Colmer, Ian Hardman, John Voorheis Particulate air pollution in the contiguous United States has decreased considerably over recent decades, but where exactly has that progress been made? Batten's Jay Shimshack and his co-authors dive in. Learn more Losing public health insurance: TennCare reform and personal financial distress Authors: Sebastian Tello-Trillo, Laura M. Argys, Andrew I. Friedson, M. Melinda Pitts Batten Professor Sebastian Tello-Trillo and his co-authors write about how the primary goal of health insurance is smoothing the financial risk associated with health shocks. They estimate the effect of exposure to health-insurance reform on individual-level financial well-being. Learn more Regional Disparities in Qualified Health Plans’ Prior Authorization Requirements for HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis in the United States Authors: Sebastian Tello-Trillo, Kathleen A. McManus, Samuel Powers, Amy Killelea, Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade Batten’s Sebastian Tello Trillo and his co-authors answer the question are there regional disparities in prior authorization requirements for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis? Learn more Defense Technological Innovation: Issues and Challenges in an Era of Converging Technologies Authors: Bharat Rao, Adam Jay Harrison, Bala Mulloth Bala Mulloth and co-authors Bharat Rao and Adam Jay Harrison explore defense technological innovation in this new release in the New Horizons Innovation Management series. Learn more Emerging Issues in Decentralized Resource Governance: Environmental Federalism, Spillovers, and Linked Socio-Ecological Systems Authors: William Shobe Federalism as an academic discipline studies how multilevel political jurisdictions interact, both vertically and horizontally. Environmental federalism shifts and expands the focus by concentrating on environmental goods, which are related to ecosystem services. This shift necessarily expands the inquiry to include investigation of how ecosystem services respond to changes in resource management by human governance institutions. Learn more Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in complex humanitarian crises Authors: David Leblang, Danielle N. Poole, Daniel J. Escudero, Lawrence O. Gostin, Elizabeth A. Talbot Over 168 million people across 50 countries are estimated to need humanitarian assistance in 2020. Response to epidemics in complex humanitarian crises— such as the recent cholera epidemic in Yemen and the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo— is a global health challenge of increasing scale. The thousands of Yemeni and Congolese who have died in these years-long epidemics demonstrate the difficulty of combatting even well-known pathogens in humanitarian settings. The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) may represent a still greater threat to those in complex humanitarian crises, which lack the infrastructure, support, and health systems to mount a comprehensive response. Learn more Environmental Policy From Zero to Hero?: Why Integrated Assessment Modeling of Negative Emissions Technologies Is Hard and How We Can Do Better Authors: Jay Fuhrman, Haewon McJeon, Scott C. Doney, William Shobe, Andres F. Clarens Efforts by the United Nations and others to develop a coordinated global response to climate change rely heavily on an ensemble of Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) to make projections linking human activities to climate outcomes (IPCC, 2014, 2018). IAMs are coupled models of the global economic and climate systems, first developed to represent fossil fuel emissions from the energy system (Reister and Edmonds, 1977), and later expanded to include land use change and forestry emissions, as well as non-CO2 emissions (Di Vittorio et al., 2014). Learn more Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Next page Next ›
Social Entrepreneurship New Case - Culinary Concepts AB and the Employment Crisis in Food and Beverage in Charlottesville Authors: Bala Mulloth, Antwon Brinson Antwon Brinson believes in the power of culinary arts to bring about systemic social change. This case study addresses how Antwon’s social venture, Culinary Concepts AB (CCAB), approached the employment crisis felt throughout the food and beverage industry, by teaching life skills through culinary arts. Learn more
Education New Case - ReadWrite Digital: Improving Student Outcomes Through Educational Innovation Authors: Bala Mulloth, William Carden, Elizabeth Carden ReadWrite Digital is an education technology startup that offers software to K–12 schools in the United States to provide education analytics and personalized education planning. Founded in 2012 by Rob Simms, the current President and CTO, ReadWrite Digital built, developed, and launched two unique products, Integrator and Analytics, providing an end-to-end solution for data collection from disparate systems creating rich analytics for student performance in one place. Learn more
Social Entrepreneurship New Case - RVA Works: Empowering Entrepreneurs for Big Change Authors: Bala Mulloth, Dale Fickett RVA Works (a shortening of Richmond, Virginia Works) is a public charity, which has demonstrated superior efficacy in educational programming for entrepreneurship. Since 2014, their work has primarily focused on providing pathways to business ownership for ethnic minorities, women, and lower-income people. Learn more
Social Entrepreneurship Exploring Social Business Pathways: Green Map System as a Case in Point Authors: Bala Mulloth Social entrepreneurship holds promise as a way for organizations to create value for both individuals and communities. The objective of this paper is to observe and analyze the ways Green Map System, a not-for-profit social venture, supports sustainable community development and local leadership by sharing tools, icons, and technology for mapping eco-sites around the world. The role of technology and digital networks, as well as the impact of global linkages, is also observed and emphasized. Learn more
Mobilize for Our Lives? School Shootings and Democratic Accountability in U.S. Elections Authors: John Holbein, Hans J. G. Hassell, Matthew Baldwin Gun violence is a large and growing problem in the United States. Many reformers look towards elections to spur policy change in this area. In this paper, we explore the effects of school shootings on electoral mobilization and election outcomes. Learn more
Disparities in PM2.5 air pollution in the United States Authors: Jay Shimshack, Jonathan Colmer, Ian Hardman, John Voorheis Particulate air pollution in the contiguous United States has decreased considerably over recent decades, but where exactly has that progress been made? Batten's Jay Shimshack and his co-authors dive in. Learn more
Losing public health insurance: TennCare reform and personal financial distress Authors: Sebastian Tello-Trillo, Laura M. Argys, Andrew I. Friedson, M. Melinda Pitts Batten Professor Sebastian Tello-Trillo and his co-authors write about how the primary goal of health insurance is smoothing the financial risk associated with health shocks. They estimate the effect of exposure to health-insurance reform on individual-level financial well-being. Learn more
Regional Disparities in Qualified Health Plans’ Prior Authorization Requirements for HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis in the United States Authors: Sebastian Tello-Trillo, Kathleen A. McManus, Samuel Powers, Amy Killelea, Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade Batten’s Sebastian Tello Trillo and his co-authors answer the question are there regional disparities in prior authorization requirements for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis? Learn more
Defense Technological Innovation: Issues and Challenges in an Era of Converging Technologies Authors: Bharat Rao, Adam Jay Harrison, Bala Mulloth Bala Mulloth and co-authors Bharat Rao and Adam Jay Harrison explore defense technological innovation in this new release in the New Horizons Innovation Management series. Learn more
Emerging Issues in Decentralized Resource Governance: Environmental Federalism, Spillovers, and Linked Socio-Ecological Systems Authors: William Shobe Federalism as an academic discipline studies how multilevel political jurisdictions interact, both vertically and horizontally. Environmental federalism shifts and expands the focus by concentrating on environmental goods, which are related to ecosystem services. This shift necessarily expands the inquiry to include investigation of how ecosystem services respond to changes in resource management by human governance institutions. Learn more
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in complex humanitarian crises Authors: David Leblang, Danielle N. Poole, Daniel J. Escudero, Lawrence O. Gostin, Elizabeth A. Talbot Over 168 million people across 50 countries are estimated to need humanitarian assistance in 2020. Response to epidemics in complex humanitarian crises— such as the recent cholera epidemic in Yemen and the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo— is a global health challenge of increasing scale. The thousands of Yemeni and Congolese who have died in these years-long epidemics demonstrate the difficulty of combatting even well-known pathogens in humanitarian settings. The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) may represent a still greater threat to those in complex humanitarian crises, which lack the infrastructure, support, and health systems to mount a comprehensive response. Learn more
Environmental Policy From Zero to Hero?: Why Integrated Assessment Modeling of Negative Emissions Technologies Is Hard and How We Can Do Better Authors: Jay Fuhrman, Haewon McJeon, Scott C. Doney, William Shobe, Andres F. Clarens Efforts by the United Nations and others to develop a coordinated global response to climate change rely heavily on an ensemble of Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) to make projections linking human activities to climate outcomes (IPCC, 2014, 2018). IAMs are coupled models of the global economic and climate systems, first developed to represent fossil fuel emissions from the energy system (Reister and Edmonds, 1977), and later expanded to include land use change and forestry emissions, as well as non-CO2 emissions (Di Vittorio et al., 2014). Learn more