Despite decades of progress in addressing gender discrimination, women across the globe face persistent legal barriers to participating in the economy on an equal basis with men, according to a study co-authored by Yale economist Pinelopi Goldberg.
The...
Public confidence in the safety and efficacy of a coronavirus vaccine will depend heavily on the political context in which a potential vaccine is approved and distributed, according to a new study by Yale researchers.
The study is based on two...
Yale economist Marina Halac is breaking barriers in a traditionally male-dominated field.
In 2016 — seven years out of graduate school — Halac won the Elaine Bennett Research Prize, awarded biennially by the American Economic Association to recognize...
The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped this year’s U.S. election.
Candidates have altered their campaign approaches, relying more on mailings and text messages than door knocking and glad-handing at events. Meanwhile, voters are weighing whether to cast...
Shopping online. Searching the internet. Posting to social media. These ordinary activities allow Amazon, Google, Facebook and other digital behemoths to amass unprecedented amounts of people’s data while offering them little, if any, compensation in...
Our brains respond differently when talking to a person from a different socioeconomic group than during a conversation with someone of a similar background, a novel new imaging study shows.
While neuroscientists have used brain imaging scans to track in...