Americans appear profoundly unaware of the vast economic inequality that persists between black and white Americans in contemporary society, according to a new study by researchers at Yale University.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the...
Settling on a parenting style is challenging. Is it better to be strict or more lenient? Have helicopter parents found the right approach to guiding their children’s choices?
A new study co-authored by Yale economist Fabrizio Zilibotti argues that...
Police departments across the nation have embraced body-worn cameras as a tool for reducing police misconduct and building trust between law-enforcement officers and the communities they serve.
In a new study, The Lab @ DC, a research lab within...
A new study casts doubt on a promising application of the timeworn theory — posited by thinkers such as Rousseau, Alexander de Tocqueville, and John Stuart Mill — that political engagement, such as voting, fosters good citizens and makes people more...
The opening of the new residential colleges this fall, and the corresponding influx of 761 undergraduates to a new area of campus, created a need for additional study space on nearby Science Hill.
A recent renovation at Yale’s Center for Science and...
When Yale economist Joseph Shapiro was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about a decade ago, he attempted a cost-benefit analysis of the 1972 Clean Water Act — the federal law governing water quality in the country’s rivers,...
The United States has spent billions of dollars in Afghanistan on economic interventions, such as job-training programs and direct cash payments, to counter violent extremism, but a new study casts doubt on the ability of these initiatives to reduce...
While an undergraduate at Yale, economist Joseph Altonji took an introductory course in macroeconomics taught by James Tobin, Sterling Professor of Economics.
Tobin, recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Economics, led one of the course’s discussion...
Readers might nod along or roll their eyes at a newspaper opinion piece, but a new study provides evidence that op-ed columns are an effective means for changing people’s minds about the issues of the day.
Through two randomized experiments, researchers...