New research is the first to show large-scale intergenerational effects of the federal Head Start program that launched in 1965 as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty. The program continues to this day and ...
Economics & Business
Jun 22, 2022
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Entrepreneurs who find themselves in over their heads could be better off hiring specialists than investing to improve their own skills, according to a study from researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the World ...
Economics & Business
May 12, 2022
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For the first time, researchers established that young fathers who have a firstborn son rather than a daughter are convicted of fewer crimes in subsequent years, and crucially that this reduction also leads to a drop in criminal ...
Social Sciences
Nov 30, 2021
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Amid historic drought and changing rainfall patterns, a groundwater market in the California desert could serve as a template for the future of water management.
Economics & Business
Sep 29, 2021
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Better grades thanks to your fellow students? A study conducted by the University of Zurich's Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics has revealed that not only the grade point average, gender and nationality peers ...
Economics & Business
Jan 21, 2021
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Merit-based grants are a government's best bet for providing effective student aid for long-term economic growth—increasing both welfare (measured in terms of long-term well-being outcomes) and efficiency, according to ...
Education
Feb 3, 2020
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As long as democracy has existed, there have been democracy skeptics—from Plato warning of mass rule to contemporary critics claiming authoritarian regimes can fast-track economic programs.
Economics & Business
Mar 7, 2019
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Over 650,000 registered financial advisers in the United States help manage over $30 trillion of investible assets and represent approximately 10% of total employment of the finance and insurance sector. However, despite ...
Economics & Business
Jan 22, 2019
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There's no question the domestic workforce is aging. According to recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median age of the U.S. labor force was 42 years in 2016, up from 38 in 1996, and it's projected to keep ...
Economics & Business
Jan 10, 2019
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Suppose you were building a cartel—a group of business interests who coordinate to fix high prices that consumers must pay. How would you design it? Received economic wisdom says transparency among cartel members is crucial: ...
Economics & Business
Dec 19, 2018
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