Radio Harris

How would your school days have been different without access to a bathroom? In India, as in many parts of the world, that's the status quo. But now that's changing, ad the results are promising. In the newest episode of Radio Harris, we hear from Chicago Harris Assistant Professor Anjali Adukia, who has studied the influence of sanitation facilities on student performance in India. Tune in to hear who cares about latrines most, why sanitation is catching on in the developing world, and how an ambitious monkey almost ruined Adukia's research.

Every election season, pundits are fixated on polls and candidates. But as Chicago Harris Assistant Professor Anthony Fowler explains, there's a more fundamental issue that isn't receiving much attention: Who will, or will not, turn out to vote - and what does it mean for the country? In the second installment of Radio Harris, Professor Fowler shares what he's learned about the surprising effects of get-out-the-vote efforts, what the US could learn from Australia, and what it'll all mean on Election Day.

Over the past several weeks, a sense of panic has been building around the outbreak of the Ebola virus. The disease has dominated headlines, conversations and social media feeds, and not necessarily to our benefit. How does the way we get information about threats like this affect how we respond to them? To find out, Chicago Harris Assistant Professor Daniel Bennett and his co-authors looked at the 2003 SARS outbreak in Taiwan. The paper, co-authored by Bennett, Chun-Fang Chiang of National Taiwan University and Anup Malani of the University of Chicago Law School, is forthcoming in the Journal of Development Economics. What they discovered might make you question what, and how, you're really learning about the threat of Ebola.