Widespread use of arsenic-contaminated water in Bangladesh during the 20th century has been called by the World Health Organization the largest mass poisoning in history. A new study co-authored by Yale economist Mark Rosenzweig finds that, in addition to...
Before taking office last month, President Joe Biden promised that advancement of racial equity would be one of the top priorities of his administration. We asked several members of the Yale faculty to describe policy changes within their sphere of...
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 voters are...
U.S. trade policy is at a crossroads. Will President Biden make a clean break from his predecessor’s protectionist policies and embrace the trading system that Americans helped create last century?
“Trade in the 21st Century: Back to the Past?” (Brookings...
Soaring health care costs in the United States burden families with expensive premiums and account for nearly a third of the federal budget. A new project based at Yale University is providing policymakers with evidence-based proposals to eliminate...
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a sharp decline in living standards and rising food insecurity in developing countries across the globe, according to a new study by an international team of economists.
The study, published Feb. 5 in the journal...
Stayed up past your bedtime? Check the lunar cycle. Moonlight might be to blame.
A new study co-authored by Yale anthropologists Claudia Valeggia and Eduardo Fernández-Duque found that lunar phases affect people’s sleep schedules. According to their...