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New UC San Diego research finds that the animosity costs hosts a 78% loss in rental income Airbnb hosts in college towns increase their listing prices much more than hotels when there are home football games against rival teams. Hosts…

A recent study finds that social inequality persists, regardless of educational achievement - particularly for men. "Education is not the equalizer that many people think it is," says Anna Manzoni, author of the study and an associate…

Researchers at the University of Zurich show that increased sensitivity in a specific region of the brain contributes to the development of anxiety and depression in response to real-life stress. Their study establishes an objective…

AI-powered symptom checkers can potentially reduce the number of people going to in-person clinics during the pandemic, but first, researchers say, people need to know they exist. COVID symptom checkers are digital self-assessment tools…

News from the Journal of Marketing Researchers from Columbia University and Georgetown University published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines how consumers can adopt a sustainable consumption lifestyle by purchasing…

Are we really living in a polarized world? A mathematical model reveals surprises -- particularly about people in the middle.Credit: (Yang et al, PLOS One) When people talk about the political spectrum, it's often in reference to…

More than 46 million say they still could not afford medical care todayCredit: West Health-Gallup WASHINGTON, DC - March 31, 2021 -- Nearly 20% of Americans, or more than 46 million adults, say they did not seek treatment for a health…

A 'design playbook' for historic Black communitiesCredit: UT Arlington A team from the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs (CAPPA) is one of two nationwide to win a $40,000 SOM Foundation Research Prize to create a…

As consumers become richer, more is spent on services and less on manufactured goods Politicians and business leaders often make claims about why certain sectors in the economy are shrinking, such as the decline in U.S. manufacturing is…

Credit: UNM School of Engineering A University of New Mexico research team conducted a data analysis that has found that as a larger portion of the population gets vaccinated against COVID-19, it becomes economically advantageous…

News from the Journal of Marketing Researchers from Columbia University and Temple University published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines how choice architecture can reduce socioeconomic disparities. The study,…

Credit: Adam Islaam - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Solar energy is a clean, renewable source of electricity that could potentially play a significant part in fulfilling the world's energy requirements,…

Meanwhile, in Western Europe, people trust their governments more than in other EU countries An international team of scholars studied how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Europeans' stress levels and their trust in their national…

CABI has led the first study to explore the income and food security effects of the fall armyworm invasion on a country -- revealing that in Zimbabwe smallholder maize-growing households blighted by the pest are 12% more likely to…

Service quality and system quality rank second and thirdCredit: NTU Singapore A study by a research team from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and China's first digital-only bank WeBank has found that…

Myeong Lee, Assistant Professor, Information Sciences and Technology, is working to understand how people use the 311 non-emergency issue-reporting system during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, Lee and his collaborators aim to…

A huge volume of digital data has been harvested, stored and shared in the last few years - from sources such as social media, geolocation systems and aerial images from drones and satellites - giving researchers many new ways to study…

Credit: Skoltech Researchers from Skoltech's Intelligent Space Robotics Lab have proposed a novel method for customer behavior analytics and demand distribution based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) stocktaking. Their…

The internet provides a major source of exchanging health information through online portals and new media. Internet users can access health sites and online forums to obtain health information. In turn, these information sources act as a…

States regularly use administrative records, such as motor-vehicle data, in determining whether people have moved to prune their voter rolls. A Yale-led study of this process in Wisconsin shows that a significant percentage of registered…