Dee Gill

Writer

About

Dee Gill specializes in translating scholarly and technical research into material aimed at broader audiences. Her articles have appeared in publications for the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and other institutions. Formerly, she worked as a freelance writer for the Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, The Economist and the New York Times, and as a foreign correspondent in London for AP/Dow Jones News. Gill works from St. Petersburg, Florida.

The Woolsey fire in 2018 burns in California. Research Brief / Health

A Dangerous Education Divide During Wildfires

Amid toxic smoke, the less educated majority ventures out far more often than college degree holders

A for rent sign in front of a row of houses Research Brief / Housing

All Things in Moderation, Including Rent Control?

A California law seems to avoid worst side effects: rising condo conversions and a slowdown in new home construction

Illustration for first-movers feature Feature / Entrepreneurship

How First-Mover Advantage, Once Unquestioned, Lost Its Grip on Entrepreneurs and Business Researchers

A skeptic asked questions that drove decades of study; plenty of ‘first-movers’ weren’t actually first

Two guards walking inside San Quentin State Prison. Research Brief / COVID-19

How Prisons, Very Much Like Nursing Homes, Helped Spread COVID Beyond Their Walls

After a botched inmate transfer, San Quentin guards carried the virus back to their neighborhoods

Black and white photo of of people relaxing on the beach at South Shields, August 1950. Research Brief / Artificial Intelligence

Household Use of AI Yields Bigger Productivity Gains Than Seen by Business

Chores go faster, providing more leisure time

Illustration of businessmen with briefcases running forward on their respective running tracks Research Brief / Technology

What Sparks Tech Adoption? Learning Competitors Are Ahead

Firms start their own tech upgrades after learning peers had done their own, study finds

Three different examples of fake review solicitation Research Brief / E-commerce

How Fake Customer Reviews on Amazon Distort Markets

Shoppers’ highly imperfect understanding of the problem leads to poor buying decisions

Hollywood Hills on smoggy day in LA. Research Brief / Taxes

LA’s Mansion Tax, Intended to Aid Affordable Housing, May Have Backfired

City’s home-construction permits fall, while surrounding suburbs’ development expanded

Aerial view of rush hour in city crosswalk. Feature / Data Analytics

We’re All Being Tracked. What Can We Learn From It?

A primer for researchers on use of smartphone location data offers a glimpse of how we’re watched

Three blue and white round GDPR logos that gradually fade from left to right. Research Brief / Innovation

Unintentionally, EU Data Protections Impede Development of New Medicines

That’s bad for patients, who’re the citizens the privacy law means to help

A DraftKings Sportsbook, the official sports betting partner of the NFL Playoffs, advertisement on a OUTFRONT billboard in Kansas City, Kansas. Research Brief / Personal Finance

As States Permitted Online Sports Gambling, Citizens’ Personal Financial Health Suffered

Half a trillion dollars wagered — and counting

A line of houses on a street in an affluent neighborhood in Las Colinas, a suburb of Dallas Research Brief / Taxes

Is Tax Avoidance By the Wealthy Contagious?

Among Dallas property taxpayers, it appears not. Nonwealthy became more motivated to challenge a tax bill by the prospect of savings

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's White Oak campus in Silver Spring, Maryland Research Brief / Health Care

Exploiting Regulatory Loophole Speeds Cancer Drug Development

Pharma companies seek OK for limited use, then expand sales through off-label prescribing, saving millions

A screenshot of a KFF News article Research Brief / Health Care

How Medical Device Makers Reacted to Publication of a Once-Secret Database of Millions of Adverse Events

New product filings to FDA included stronger safety features and larger technological advances