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Emergency room study upends traditional thinking about doctors versus nurse practitioners

New UC Berkeley Haas research published in the American Economic Review finds doctors outperform nurse practitioners on average—but performance varies more within the professions than between them.

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UC Berkeley researchers, entrepreneurs create first healthcare AI model trained to understand clinical decisions

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Professional women have narrowed the gender pay gap, but troubling inequities remain

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AI is expanding the boundaries of biological research. Will drug development follow?

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Perspectives

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Perspectives

Did the China shock increase air conditioning adoption?

The Energy Institute

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Who should pay for utility-ignited wildfires?

The Energy Institute

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Perspectives

How to prevent Biofuels from causing deforestation

The Energy Institute

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Code Blue

A UC Berkeley Haas study of 1.1 million emergency-room visits finds that how hospitals deploy nurse practitioners and physicians matters as much as which they hire—with no difference in patient mortality but meaningful gaps in cost and follow-up care.