Redesigning Food Safety:Using Risk Analysis to Build a Better Food Safety System

More Farmers Are Enrolling in Crop Insurance Due to Extreme Heat

A new paper finds that a decline in crop yield due to extreme heat boosts insurance enrollment for corn and soybeans the following year.

Managing Heat Risk: Crop Insurance and Rural Economic Resilience

This working paper explores how extreme heat impacts crop insurance enrollment, finding that declines in crop yield from extreme heat do, in fact, increase enrollment.

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.