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A guest essay on the new federal dietary guidelines cites research on the lifetime health benefits of limiting childhood sugar, co-authored by Paul Gertler.

Dean Jenny Chatman says Haas will double down on ingenuity, determination, and collaboration, focusing on AI, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and healthcare; she cites research by Paul Gertler, Ambar La Forgia, and Jonathan Kolstad.

A new project led by Paul Gertler, the Li Ka Shing Professor of Economics, in conjunction with Marcelo Olivares and Raimundo Undurraga from the University of Chile, is aiming at modernizing the public procurement system through artificial intelligence (AI). The project will develop tools based on large-scale language models (LLMs) to support both public agencies in formulating requirements and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in identifying opportunities.

For decades, Berkeley Haas Professor Paul Gertler has studied the most effective ways to deliver healthcare, improve financial inclusion, reduce poverty, and boost early childhood development. But serving as chief economist of the Human Development Network at the World Bank from 2004 to 2007 gave him an even clearer sense of the difference he could […]

A low-sugar diet in utero and in the first two years of life lowers the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes in adulthood by up to 35% and hypertension by up to 20%, according to a study published in Science and co-authored by Professor Paul Gertler. The research team reached their conclusions by comparing outcomes for […]