Locally-owned seed companies participating in a program to offer high-yield crop varieties to smallholder farmers across the continent have collectively become the largest seed producers in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new report released at the Grow Africa Investment Forum alongside World Economic Forum for Africa.
The Stigler Center of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business is gathering notable banking minds to discuss “30 Years After the Failure of Continental Illinois Bank: Have We Solved Too Big to Fail?”
Although the nation is spending more on welfare than ever before, most of that money is going to better-off families rather than the very poorest, a researcher found.
Ambulatory centers could offer a viable way to keep pace with the growing demand for outpatient surgeries, University of Louisville health economist finds
Marketing practitioners and researchers will converge on the University of Chicago Booth School of Business’ downtown campus Tuesday, May 6, featuring a range of research that uses the data to generate insights on marketing topics.
Chicago Booth researchers find that investing in real estate located in run-down, urban neighborhoods that border tony areas is wise choice.
High speed algorithms have so revolutionized the design and functioning of our stock markets that they are fast tearing up the rule book in how these markets are regulated, according to a Vanderbilt Law School researcher.
A new study finds that children pay close attention to issues related to money, and that parents should make an effort to talk with their children to ensure that kids don’t develop misconceptions about finance.
In recent decades, many large high-tech companies have eliminated in-house research programs, turning instead to startup companies as their primary source of breakthrough innovations. AIP has released a new report on physics startups, based on interviews with 140 physicists and other professionals at some 91 startup companies in 14 states, companies which are engaged in making medical devices, manufacturing tools, nanotechnology, lasers and optical devices, renewable energy technologies and other products.
Two independent studies use two very different approaches to reach the same conclusion: some online retailers really do have an advantage over traditional brick-and-mortar stores.
Patients get the best care when they are treated in units that are staffed by nurses who have extensive experience in their current job, according to a study from researchers at Columbia University School of Nursing and Columbia Business School.
When the Earned Income Tax Credit was expanded in 1993, supporters hoped it would reward poor parents for working while critics feared that it might discourage single mothers from marrying or incentivize women to have more children to boost their tax refund. A new collaborative study done by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Cornell University reveals the EITC has helped the working poor but hasn’t affected personal choices.
Though owning a home is considered the American dream, race can influence just how sweet that dream actually is.
Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica exemplify the economic challenges cities throughout New York continue to face. But there’s a silver lining even here – as Cornell University researchers working with leaders in each of these cities have uncovered lessons that can help other municipalities, large and small, around the state.
Is the American Dream slipping away? Maybe, says Mark R. Rank, PhD, one of the country’s foremost experts on inequality and social justice. “More than at any time in our past,” Rank says, “there are serious questions regarding the American Dream and its applicability to everyday people.” Rank's new book, “Chasing the American Dream: Understanding What Shapes Our Fortunes” (Oxford University Press 2014) is released.
Unemployment and job growth continue to capture attention as the U.S. economy rebounds from the Great Recession. This month, the final, revised numbers on state and city job growth for the year 2013 as a whole are out. Research Professor Lee McPheters of the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University provides rankings and analysis of the winners and losers, based on the latest figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Researchers from Wichita State University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will announce the 24th annual national Airline Quality Rating (AQR) at 9:30 a.m. EDT, Monday, April 7, at a news conference at the National Press Club, Murrow Room, in Washington, D.C.
People who care about justice are swayed more by reason than emotion, according to new brain scan research from the University of Chicago Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience.
A study of child growth patterns in 36 developing countries finds economic growth has little to no effect on the nutritional status of the world’s poorest children. The study was by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health, University of Göttingen, ETH Zürich, and Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.
Several items at the grocery store will cost more this year, including beef, pork, vegetables and nuts. Most of the increase in price is because of extreme drought facing several states.
You don't just need to rely on hot dogs and pizza to make a buck at concession stands. A study led by the University of Iowa examined sales, revenues and profits at a booster-run concession stand in Iowa that offered healthy food items, from apples to string cheese, over two fall seasons. The club registered stable sales and revenue, while profits remained intact. Results appear in the Journal of Public Health.
On March 6, the state of Maine became the first in the United States to make college savings for newborns universal and automatic, putting into practice research pioneered by Michael Sherraden and the Brown School’s Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis.
Tomas Dvorak, associate professor of economics and senior Jigme Norbu co-authored "Do Mutual Fund Companies Eat Their Own Cooking?" in a recent issue of "The Journal of Retirement"
Household wealth for Americans still has not recovered from the recession, despite last summer’s optimistic report from the U.S. Federal Reserve, a new study suggests.
An upcoming law review article suggests the Internal Revenue Service should do a better job determining whether a recent wave of nonprofits the author terms “regional economic development organizations” (REDOs) are actually charitable and should be tax exempt. Professor Matthew Rossman’s research at Case Western Reserve University School of Law suggests the IRS can adapt its private benefit doctrine to REDOs. He proposes the phrase “trickle down charity” to describe economic development practiced by such organizations. He writes that no matter how altruistic the organization's objectives, it is not a charity if it mainly benefits private individuals or enterprises.
Entrepreneurs and owners of small start-up businesses in rural areas must successfully pitch their ventures to “faraway, unknown banking officials” to survive, rather than relying on local lenders as in the past, according to a Baylor University study.
Retiring CEOs issue earnings forecasts more frequently during their final year of employment, and these forecasts tend to be more likely to convey good news than those released during pre-terminal years, according to a new study.
Corporations with board directors who have investment banking experience are more likely to acquire other businesses – and make better acquisitions when they do – according to a new study from the University at Buffalo School of Management.
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