Cox’s Bazar, a coastal city in southeast Bangladesh, is home to about 900,000 Rohingya refugees living in overcrowded camps. Like other forcibly displaced people across the globe — more than 70 million in all — the Rohingya are extremely vulnerable to...
Frequent campaign donors prefer congressional candidates who toe the party line to those who promote extreme views or make bipartisan appeals, according to a new study co-authored by Yale political scientist Gregory Huber.
The study, published in the June...
Governments across the globe have imposed strict lockdowns to slow the spread of COVID-19. These measures have reduced infection rates, but also triggered the most severe economic collapse since the Great Depression.
Yale economist Fabrizio Zilibotti is...
Claire Gorman ’20 arrived on campus intent on studying computer science. As her Yale experience unfolded, she developed a love for architecture.
Embracing both interests, Gorman majored in computing and the arts. Her senior project merges machine learning...
Yale is full of marvels. Onyx Brunner ’20 made it his job to share them with a rotating cast of thousands.
A campus tour guide since his first year, Brunner took special delight in showing off Yale’s residential colleges. For him, the colleges exemplify...
Two months ago, Yale economist Pinelopi Goldberg wasn’t working on anything related to global health. But like many scholars, she has recently shifted her research focus to questions bearing on the COVID-19 pandemic.
The former chief economist at the...
On March 24, India’s government announced a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19, closing schools and non-essential businesses, and suspending air and rail travel. That same day, Nepal, which borders India to the north, imposed its own...
Small-business owners across the United States were struggling with pandemic-related disruptions and had already laid off large numbers of employees by the time Congress passed its initial relief package, according to the preliminary results of a...