A study published in Economic Inquiry provides new evidence that universal free school meals can meaningfully reduce out-of-school suspensions in both elementary and secondary schools.
Economics & Business
May 20, 2026
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When companies are caught making illegal payments to foreign government officials to win or keep business, the penalties are meant to be severe. But new research suggests those consequences are not always applied evenly. ...
Economics & Business
May 20, 2026
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Investors looking for higher returns may want to focus on a company's location instead of its growth potential, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State. They found that portfolios built to consider company ...
Economics & Business
May 20, 2026
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A review into food waste in Australia's quick service restaurants has found order mistakes are the biggest driver of food waste, and better staff training is a key part of the solution. The quick service restaurant sector ...
Economics & Business
May 20, 2026
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For decades, historians have generally agreed that the progress of small villages as they evolved into cities came at the price of widening inequality. A small group of leaders, kings and priests, would inevitably seize control ...
Archaeology
May 19, 2026
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Why do some organizations survive across the centuries while others founder when faced with technological disruption? A new study by the University of Zurich shows that historically developed monastic forms of co-determination ...
Social Sciences
May 19, 2026
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New research shows that Americans' use of home delivery continues to be split sharply along geographic lines, with shoppers in urban areas remaining more reliant on home delivery than rural households. In a new study published ...
Economics & Business
May 19, 2026
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Service quality improvement requires a holistic approach to analyzing customer reviews and identifying relevant, actionable issues. Researchers from South Korea have addressed this by developing a model that integrates service-specific ...
Economics & Business
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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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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