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Quoted: Justin Sydnor, an economist and associate professor in the risk and insurance department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, also agreed that the move to self-insuring and having access to claims data could enable the state to make future changes in its health benefits that could encourage competition and help control costs.“You could see this as a move that, down the road, might give the state the ability to bend the cost curve,” he said. “But that won’t come immediately.”

Quoted: “What was strained was the relationship between Netanyahu and Obama…in personal terms,” Nadav Shelef, Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Israel Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells Teen Vogue. “There was no strain [between the countries] in any other sense of the word.”

Quoted: Entrepreneurship is an important part of the economic engine, said Dan Olszewski, director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the Wisconsin School of Business. Almost all net job creation in last 20 years has come from companies five years old or younger, he said.“Job creation is very much driven by startups,” he said.

Noted: Hart Posen, associate professor of management and human resources in the Wisconsin School of Business, was interviewed for a story on Walmart’s quarterly report and its battle with Amazon (at the 1:05 mark).

Quoted: “Those WHO statistics are just from some very specific health outcomes where we have some known working equations and models to do it,” said Dr. Jonathan Patz, a professor and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who participated in the meeting.

Quoted: Christine Whelan, a UW-Madison professor in the Department of Consumer Science and director of the School of Human Ecology’s Relationships, Finance and Life Fulfillment Initative, said the idea of boy dolls “isn’t particularly new,” citing “Ken and Barbie back in the day.”

Quoted: It’s “never a sure thing,” said Steve Carpenter, director of the UW-Madison Center for Limnology, but “the odds are better than even that (Lake Mendota) will thaw in February, in my opinion.

Noted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, are guests on WHA radio (970 AM) at 11:45 a.m. the last Monday of each month.

Quoted: As more cooperatives merge, dairy farmers have fewer options for selling their milk, said Peter Carstensen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor and expert in antitrust law and competition policy.

Quoted: History suggests that lawmakers who outperform their party’s president at the ballot box exercise more independence from the White House, says David Canon, a congressional scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.“For members of Congress where a president runs ahead of them in their districts, there is a tendency to support him more,” says Canon.

Quoted: A sales decline probably has indeed occurred, said both University of Wisconsin-Madison marketing professor Neeraj Arora and retail industry consultant Dick Seesel. “Donald Trump’s election rhetoric likely eroded a sizable chunk of Ivanka’s customer base of wealthy, educated, urban women,” Arora said by email.