Encouraging Adaptation to Climate Change: Long Term Flood Insurance

Understanding the Barriers to Affordable Homeowners Insurance, with Margaret Walls and Penny Liao

Margaret Walls and Penny Liao break down how extreme weather events threaten homeowners insurance markets; their episode dives deep into case studies of state-level responses in California and Florida.

AI-Assisted Teams Outperform AI-Led Teams but Not Human-Only Teams in Assessing Research Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Science

With Large Language Models (LLMs) becoming widespread, this study tests whether artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT could help social scientists check if published research findings can be reproduced.

If/Then: Pending Deregulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Create Significant Negative Health Effects

If the US Environmental Protection Agency finalizes a rule on greenhouse gas emissions without quantifying related effects on human health, then Congress could respond by requiring this and future rules to account for human health effects.

Weather Extremes Disrupt Insurance Markets

Insurance coverage is getting harder for homeowners to maintain—particularly in areas of the United States where extreme weather events are wreaking havoc.