News & Stories Breadcrumb Home All News Research Newsmakers SPIA Reacts Community Profiles May 12, 2020 COVID-19′s Silent Spread: Princeton Researchers Explore How Symptomless Transmission Helps Pathogens Thrive Apr 24, 2020 To Combat Covid-19, Behavioral Pitfalls Must Be Addressed During any crisis, timely, and sometimes life-altering, decisions must be made, requiring an extreme amount of sound judgment under uncertainty. The… Apr 16, 2020 Mentoring Programs Help Female Economists Secure Tenure-Track Positions There remains a dearth of women in economics, with far fewer females securing tenure-track jobs and publishing academic research than men. Past… Mar 31, 2020 Projecting the Outcomes of People’s Lives with AI Isn’t So Simple The machine learning techniques scientists use to predict outcomes from large datasets may fall short when it comes to projecting the outcomes of… Mar 30, 2020 Poor People Experience Greater Financial Hardship in Areas Where Income Inequality is Greatest Study Shows How a Lack of Community Support Caused by Inequality Exacerbates Cycles of PovertyWhile some are relying on friends and neighbors to help… Mar 18, 2020 Racial Disparities in Pollution Exposure Fell Thanks to Clean Air Act Many case studies suggest that low income and racial minority groups face disproportionately high exposures to environmental pollution. But the… Mar 09, 2020 Collaborating With a Team of Rivals Can Resolve Conflict — and Advance Science Five social scientists holed up in an Amsterdam hotel for a week with the goal of reaching a scientific consensus on how people form stereotypes… Mar 02, 2020 Exposure to “Fake News” During the 2016 U.S. Election Has Been Overstated Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, debates have raged about the reach of so-called “fake news” websites and the role they played during the… Jan 21, 2020 A Cautionary Tale about Measuring Racial Bias in Policing Racial bias and policing made headlines last year after a study examining records of fatal police shootings claimed white officers were no more… Jan 15, 2020 Social Networks May Drive College Decisions Younger siblings may indeed look up to their older kin — to the point that it influences where they go to college.Using data from centralized school… Jan 06, 2020 New Data on State and Local Business Tax Incentives Across the U.S. Dec 09, 2019 In a Split Second, Clothes Make the Man More Competent in the Eyes of Others People perceive a person’s competence partly based on subtle economic cues emanating from the person’s clothing, according to a study published in… Nov 26, 2019 New Modeling Will Shed Light On Ways Policy Decisions Affect Human Migration From Sea Level Rise A new modeling approach can help researchers, policymakers, and the public better understand how policy decisions will influence human migration as… Nov 12, 2019 New Study Finds That the EITC Has No Effect on Employment Since its creation in 1975, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has been one of the primary channels through which the U.S. government combats… Nov 05, 2019 Solar and Wind Energy Preserve Groundwater for Drought, Agriculture Solar and wind farms are popping up around the country to lower carbon emissions, and these renewables also have another important effect: keeping… Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 5 Page 6 Current page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
