By Scott Murray If you invest in high-risk stocks, you should expect, on average and in the long run, higher returns than if you invest in low-risk stocks, right? That’s what financial economic theory tells us, but when we looked at data on stock returns from 1963-2012, we found that portfolios containing high-risk stocks generate […]
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How Historical Disease Detectives Are Solving Mysteries of the 1918 Flu
One hundred years ago, a novel pandemic influenza virus spread rapidly around the world. It killed about 1 to 2 percent of the human population, primarily young and often healthy adults. The centennial of the 1918 pandemic is a good time to take stock of how far the world has come since this historic health […]
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The Money Follows the Person Program Aids Quality of Life for Georgians With Disabilities
By Kristi Fuller, Georgia Health Policy Center As a single mother of two young girls, Michelle found herself in a nursing facility after suffering from a brain-stem stroke which led to loss of speech and quadriplegia. “No one belongs in a nursing facility,” Michelle* said, “especially not at 34 years old. These are good people […]
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Welfare Reform Needs Reforming to Move Georgia Families Out of Poverty
By Fred Brooks In 1996, the federal government radically reformed welfare, including cash aid now called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), with the goals of reducing poverty and “helping needy families achieve self-sufficiency.” Reform policies are one thing, but actual change is another. In 2016, I conducted a study in Georgia with a sample […]
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How Georgia is Improving Affordable Housing as a Platform for Health
By Jimmy Dills, Georgia Health Policy Center Access to quality, affordable housing is critical for supporting good health. For individuals and families with tight budgets, high housing costs can lead to tough choices between making rent and going to the doctor, between keeping the lights on and buying healthy food, or even between being part […]
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Delta Student Success Center Provides Growth Opportunities for Robinson College of Business Students
The new Delta Student Success Center at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business unites three college units focused on ensuring students develop business communication skills, access experiential learning opportunities and connect with businesses for internships and jobs. On the 12th floor of 55 Park Place NE overlooking Woodruff Park, the Delta Student […]
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A Revolution in Legal Services: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and the Law
By Anne Tucker Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the law are dominating legal headlines, a trend at least a year in the making. The facts and foci are different, but the message is clear: a revolution in legal services is underway. At the heart of the revolution are advancements in automated content review through AI to […]
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Leveraging Data To Improve the Lives Of Georgians With Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemia
By Angie Snyder and Jane Branscomb, Georgia Health Policy Center Georgia is home to one of the nation’s largest populations of individuals with sickle cell disease, with more than 7,000 individuals living with the disease in almost every county in Georgia. While treatments have improved over the years and new ones are emerging from drug […]
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Georgia Predicted to Add Jobs, Personal Income Growth Anticipated for 2018
The continuing stock market bull run, corporate tax law changes, and other national and international factors will continue to support growth in metro Atlanta and Georgia’s large corporate activities sector, according to the latest report from the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business. The forecast, released Feb. 28, […]
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Georgia State’s Tax Clinic Gives Georgia’s Low-Income Taxpayers a Fresh Start
By W. Edward Afield, Director, Philip C. Cook Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic and Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law Often overlooked in broader conversations about improving access to justice is the importance of improving access for taxpayers to a just administration of federal tax laws. Given the tax code’s complexity, and […]
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Addressing the Research Complexities of the 21st Century: The Next Generation Program
By Mary Beth Walker, Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Innovation It might seem unusual for a sociologist to work alongside an economist, or for a lawyer to work with public health researchers. But it’s not unusual for Georgia State University. It’s one of our great strengths. Through the Next Generation Program we are bringing […]
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Researchers Investigate How New City Incorporations Raise Residential Values and Property Taxes
By Carlianne Patrick, Assistant Professor of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies If efforts to create the proposed City of Eagle’s Landing in Henry County are successful, metro Atlanta will see its 11th new municipal incorporation since 2005. More than 200 new municipal governments have been incorporated in metropolitan counties across the U.S. since […]
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Investor Advocacy Clinic at Georgia State Law Seeks Economic Justice for Retirees
By Nicole G. Iannarone Most Americans are responsible for funding their own retirements. Many households with individuals nearing retirement age have no retirement savings, and those few that do have built an average nest egg of about $20,000. Through decades of hard work and saving, many entrust their savings to a stockbroker to obtain professional […]
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Restorative Justice: Continuing Georgia’s Juvenile Justice Revolution
By Alan Mackie and Elizabeth Beck In a nation with the highest incarceration rate in the world, it is heartening to observe Georgia bucking the trend. Much of the credit for this should be given to Gov. Nathan Deal who commissioned the Special Council for Criminal Justice Reform in Georgia shortly after taking office in […]
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Are You Back for Good or Still Shopping Around? Predicting Customer Churn
By V. Kumar, Agata Leszkiewicz, and Angeliki Christodoulopoulou Herbst With switching costs becoming progressively lower, customers in mature service industries tend to churn repeatedly, switching from one provider to the next. In turn, companies extend attractive promotional offers to win them back — until the next best offer lures them away. After the successful reacquisition […]
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Georgia State University’s 2017 Year in Review
Georgia State had a momentous 2017. The news media, government leaders, and businessman and philanthropist Bill Gates, who visited the university in June, gave the university more national recognition for its efforts to increase student success. Georgia State also received recognition for its efforts in boosting social mobility, and received high rankings globally for its […]
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Georgia Avoided Fiscal Maneuvers to Close State Budget Gap, But Needs Improvement in Planning, New Study Shows
Georgia’s government, unlike others around the country, has succeeded in avoiding one-time fiscal maneuvers to close gaps in its state budget without moving special funds into general funds to pay for current expenditures. But as found in a new study conducted by the Volcker Alliance in partnership with the Center for State and Local Finance […]
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Leaders, Beware the Pitfalls From the “Gift” of Feedback
By Nathan Bennett Chances are you have heard the expression, “Feedback is a gift.” The cliché is a salve against the sting of criticism, but what it more assuredly does is make giving bad news easier for the leader. Two lessons from extending the metaphor of feedback as a gift are worth consideration. The first […]
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Closing the Financial Gap: Georgia State’s Innovative SunTrust Student Financial Management Center
Thanks to an innovative student financial center, Georgia State is closing financial gaps that can mean the difference between graduation and dropping out of college. By Jeremy Craig, Georgia State University For Kennedy Oglesby, $2,300 could have stood in the way of graduating this fall. That amount of money might seem small compared to tuition […]
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Georgia State University Opens Groundbreaking New Legal Analytics Lab
By Charlotte S. Alexander, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Director, Legal Analytics Lab If the job of a lawyer were reduced to its essential tasks, analyzing text and making predictions would be high on the list. For example, what proposed contract terms are problematic? How might a judge rule, given legal precedent and the […]
