Socioeconomics

Goal is to increase efficiency of photosynthesis With world population projected to exceed eight billion people by 2025, food security is already a pressing global problem. Part of the solution will come from efforts to increase the yields…

College savings programs are less effective in neighborhoods lacking traditional banks, professor says Children's savings accounts (CSAs), offered by elementary schools throughout San Francisco and in schools across the nation, were…

Where you live in the City of Toronto impacts your health and longevityCredit: Stephanie Melles, Ryerson University We know that our environment affects our health. More specifically, it's understood that exposure to pollution and access…

Swanson School of Engineering receives $1 million NSF award to fund master's degrees for 30 low-income studentsCredit: Swanson School of Engineering/John Altdorfer PITTSBURGH (August 13, 2019) ... Earning a graduate degree can be a…

Credit: University of Sydney / Earlham Institute Researchers from the Earlham Institute and the University of Sydney are working with ex-combatants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (People's Army FARC-EP*) to grow their…

Private investment fund of funds, Illumen Capital, and Stanford SPARQ announce new research examining asset allocators' biases in investing OAKLAND, CA - According to new research released today in the Proceedings of the National Academy…

The greater frequency of droughts, combined with underlying economic, social, and environmental risks means that dry spells have an increasingly destructive impact on vulnerable populations, and particularly on children in the…

The result of the 2016 US presidential election was, for many, a surprise lesson in social perception bias -- peoples' tendency to assume that others think as we do, and to underestimate the size and influence of a minority party. Long…

Mildred Warner, professor of city and regional planning in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, has secured a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to extend her work on multigenerational planning in…

A new study published in Science provides evidence for national policies that block stubble burning and promote no-till mechanization to manage crop residuesCredit: ©Neil Palmer/CIAT A new economic study in the journal Science…