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ACTIVE PROJECT · FACULTY FELLOW YUFAN LIN
Scaling AI literacy across the business school
Grant awarded

Extending a validated AI literacy framework — built through a California Learning Lab AI FAST Grant — into agribusiness and technology management, pairing classroom outcomes with hackathon performance data to build toward a statewide grand challenge bid.

3
disciplines
400+
student sample
2027
grand challenge bid
PUBLISHED · FACULTY FELLOW L. LIN ONG
What does empowerment mean for a life in limbo?

A year-long embedded study of Afghan refugee women entrepreneurs in Malaysia proposes a new framework for measuring impact when displacement, not income, is the defining condition of daily life.

8
entrepreneurs studied
10
benefits identified
3P
new framework
Sustainable Business Practices and Social Entrepreneurship · Springer, 2026
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PUBLISHED · DIRECTOR ANTHONY W. ORLANDO
Why has it gotten harder to build almost everywhere?

A four-decade, county-level analysis reveals "The Great Supply Compression" — housing supply elasticity has fallen sharply since 2000, and the decline is sharpest in the counties that used to be easiest to build in.

2,070
counties studied
0.09
median elasticity
40%+
of housing growth explained
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2026
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PUBLISHED · DIRECTOR ANTHONY W. ORLANDO
Do rent spikes after disasters ever go away?

A twenty-year analysis of California and Florida finds that rents keep climbing for years after a hurricane or wildfire — and never fully return to where they started. The increases are milder in neighborhoods that receive federal disaster-recovery funding with tenant protections attached.

1,764
zip codes studied
12.5%
long-run rent increase
20
years of data, 2000–2020
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2026
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PUBLISHED · DIRECTOR ANTHONY W. ORLANDO
Does affordable housing actually raise nearby rents?

A seven-author study of LIHTC developments across Florida metro areas tests a common homeowner fear — and finds the opposite. New affordable rental housing shows no statistically significant link to higher market-rate rents nearby.

rents in some markets
0
markets with a significant rent increase
nearby home prices
Housing Policy Debate, 2026
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