A study of 66 million GPS mobility records shows that racial minorities are not as well served by transit as white New Yorkers. Publishing in PNAS Nexus, Yong Li and colleagues mapped the number of job sites, banks, health ...
Social Sciences
May 19, 2026
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Researchers have uncovered a new type of gender gap in the workplace that places women at a disadvantage. In a new study published in the International Economic Review, they found that women in leadership roles are judged ...
Social Sciences
May 19, 2026
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A major French policy designed to make hotel prices more competitive online may not have worked as intended, but it did unlock cheaper deals for customers booking directly with hotels. The new study of European hotel markets ...
Economics & Business
May 19, 2026
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Food insecurity—or the uncertain access to sufficient, nutritious and safe foods—is a "wicked problem" affecting 1 in 3 people worldwide. Social supermarkets are slowly emerging in Australia as a different approach to food ...
Economics & Business
May 19, 2026
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Public infrastructures like roads and electricity are so essential to society that people almost take their value for granted. A new report by Frontier Economics, commissioned by EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), ...
Economics & Business
May 19, 2026
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Artificial intelligence (AI) companies influence policy and regulation using similar techniques to Big Tobacco, Big Pharma and Big Oil, according to a new study.
Economics & Business
May 18, 2026
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Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker has proposed a US$1 fee on all Uber, Lyft and other rideshare trips in the city to begin in 2027. The projected $48 million annual revenue would go entirely to support the chronically underfunded ...
Economics & Business
May 18, 2026
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A person asking for change on the corner or living in a makeshift dwelling outside is easy to identify as homeless or unhoused. But there's a segment of the population without permanent housing that goes unnoticed. Molly ...
Social Sciences
May 18, 2026
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In chess, faster decisions are on average of higher quality. This is the conclusion of a study that has just been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team of researchers, which, in ...
Social Sciences
May 18, 2026
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When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations come to town, it can create a landscape of fear, chilling commerce and school attendance, and now, new research shows that it affects childcare workers.
Economics & Business
May 18, 2026
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