Media Corruption? Car Safety Recalls Reported Less When Manufacturers Advertise More
Is the reporting of media outlets biased in favor of firms that advertise with them? A new study looked at the relationship between advertising by…
Is the reporting of media outlets biased in favor of firms that advertise with them? A new study looked at the relationship between advertising by…
Meet Professor David Rand, a one-time punk rock guitarist who now digs into psychology, cooperation, and politics. What’s it like being a professor at the…
Chicago Booth scholar investigates whether coronavirus-related job losses eventually return. The numbers are finally capturing the full magnitude of the economic downturn caused by the…
How Is COVID-19 Affecting the Global Economic Order? Scenarios for the Global Monetary System Supply chains collapse, companies are facing bankruptcy, and mass unemployment ensues….
MIT economist Daron Acemoglu’s new research puts a number on the job costs of automation. In many parts of the U.S., robots have been replacing…
MIT economist Pierre Azoulay outlines a roadmap for scientific success against the virus. For humans, the COVID-19 virus is a novel foe. And to combat…
Study finds manufacturing companies that are quick to automate can thrive, but overall employment drops. Overall, adding robots to manufacturing reduces jobs — by more…
At this alarming time, when the COVID-19 pandemic is on everyone’s mind, a new special issue in the open-access peer-reviewed journal Population and Economics by…
Market concentration in the form of “superstar” firms has been lowering labor’s share of GDP in recent decades, a new study finds. It’s one of…
Study shows people prefer monthly payments in multiples of $100, even when it may cost them money. Do you have a monthly car payment, or…
A new study in The Economic Journal finds that likability is an influencing factor in interactions between women, as well as interactions between men and women,…
New research from Harvard University shows that being poor in the United States is hazardous to your health, revealing that the average life expectancy of…
A newly published study from MIT and the University of Chicago reveals that pharmaceutical firms “underinvest” in long-term research to develop new cancer-fighting drugs due…
A new study from Yale University provides state-level estimates of obesity-attributable costs of absenteeism among working adults in the United States, finding that the total…
New research indicates that happier people actually earn more money. This comes as a result of a study of 10,000 Americans that showed that those…
A new study from scientists at MIT examined how temperature increases affect economic growth in developing nations, finding that for every 1-degree-Celsius increase, over the…