Socioeconomics

Analyzing the toll that long-term school closures may have on US health care providers As a Yale University postdoctoral researcher, economist Jude Bayham studied the potential consequences of a global pandemic that could shutter schools,…

The impact of global crises underscores the fragility of food systems. In addition to short-term acute shocks, long-term global demographic changes like urbanization and population growth may be obstacles to improving food system…

National Trends in Disability Employment -- Monthly Update (nTIDE), issued by Kessler Foundation & University of New Hampshire IOD - featuring The Women's Project, which supports women with special needs transitioning from the justice…

Amit Mukherjee shows how to foster creativity, collaboration, and inclusivityCredit: The MIT PRESS Certain ideas about business leadership are held to be timeless, and certain characteristics of leaders--often including a square jaw, a…

Cryptocurrencies have been treated as a financial terra incognita - they enjoyed growing interest but also raised concerns due to their virtuality. The use of statistical methods utilizing correlation matrices to analyze the hundred…

Results from the study found Medicaid expansions were associated with a greater increase in the percentage of patients with head and neck cancer with Medicaid coverageCredit: MUSC Hollings Cancer Center A study published in the JAMA…

Credit: Ivan Shishkin; Tretyakov Gallery While Russia seems to have successfully tackled its historic problem: food shortage - with the agri-food sector becoming one of the most steadily developing of the national economy - the…

NYU Marron Institute report looks at risks as COVID-19 roils markets The volatility of the financial markets amid the COVID-19 pandemic has significant implications for taxpayer-supported pension systems nationally. The Marron Institute…

UMass Amherst researcher tackles traditionally taboo subject in high-stress medical fieldCredit: UMass Amherst Doctors and nurses in emergency departments at four academic centers and four community hospitals in the Northeast…

The coronavirus outbreak has companies from Apple to Amazon warning consumers, shareholders and governments about how factory shutdowns in China and across the globe have disrupted global supply chains. Many goods, including cars, mobile…

Springer book covers the US Census from its Constitutional founding through the upcoming 2020 count, discusses the unique significance of this statistical undertaking, and explores controversies and questions surrounding demographic data…

Keck Medicine of USC study reveals that socioeconomic status disparities cause patients to miss out on treatment that improves five-year lung cancer survival rateCredit: Ricardo Carrasco III LOS ANGELES - Lung cancer is the leading cause…

The study, conducted by Imperial College London on data from 2009 to 2018, looked at a third of a million passenger responses to Customer Satisfaction Surveys (CSSs) from 28 cities across four continents. They found that on average,…

China's fast economic growth and accompanying rise in food demand is driving an increase in water use for agriculture and industry, thus threatening the country's water security. The findings of a new study underscore the value and…

New IIASA research shows that higher levels of education and increasing workforce participation in both migrant and local populations are needed to compensate for the negative economic impacts of aging populations in EU countries. An…

Mahima Saxena, PhD has been honored with the Humanitarian Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). The annual award is given in recognition of a SIOP member who has made sustained, significant, and…

Over half of early life and education interventions studied had a positive effect on health March 19, 2020 -- A comprehensive review of U.S. social policies evaluated for their health outcomes found suggestive evidence that early life,…

TTUHSC investigators use DSRIP guidelines to improve outcomes, reduce costsCredit: TTUHSC Texas is one of a handful of states operating under a Medicaid 1115 Transformation Waiver that allows the expansion of Medicaid managed care while…

Children missed in the census spend a majority of their childhood not being counted in the planning and allocation of resourcesCredit: Children's National Hospital For months in 2019, Chidiogo Anyigbo, M.D., MPH, had been consumed by the…

Growing fruit and vegetables in just 10 per cent of a city's gardens and other urban green spaces could provide 15 per cent of the local population with their 'five a day', according to new research. In a study published in Nature…