Category: General
For New College Grads, the AI Jobpocalypse Didn’t Arrive
Even counting grads who want a job but aren’t looking, summer 2026 looked like other recent summers
With AI Help, More People Appeal Their Property Tax Assessment
A chatbot offering homeowners personalized advice boosted tax challenges, which are concentrated among the more well-to-do
Who Wants to Break Up Big Companies?
Clues to what moves public opinion toward stricter antitrust policy
Ending Greenwashing Requires an Understanding of Its Origins
Foundational research broadened the conversation from intentional deception to include outcomes of external pressures, organizational systems, and human bias
AI, Asked for Life Advice for Young Adults, Doesn’t Just Echo What Humans Recommend
Left unsaid: The bot wasn’t very confident in its own advice
Diversity Initiatives, Under Political Attack, Need a New Training Regimen
Researchers recommend eliciting and acknowledging the fears some employees have, but no retreat from DEI goals
Who Cares When Foreigners Adopt AI?
AI use in other countries doesn’t inspire domestic adoption, even when those competitors are right next door
Bank Holding Companies Meet Higher Capital Requirements By Weakening Their Nonbank Subsidiaries
Rather than sell stock, they shift capital from other units to banks, satisfying the letter of the law, if not its spirit
How Amazon Can Shape Prices by Responding to Rivals
Dominant online retailer may help sustain higher prices and capture most of the resulting gains
Founding a Substantial Business Builds Wealth, But Those Who Aren’t Born Well-to-Do Seldom Attempt It
The few born into poor families who own an incorporated business see wealth gains similar to entrepreneurs from privileged backgrounds
Large Language Models Are Pushing the Web Toward Zero Clicks
A picture of how chatbot adoption leads to fewer web searches — and how that affects online publishers
The Declining Power of Your Human Capital in the Age of AI
Where AI can do the heavy lifting, choice of freelancers is now driven more by price and less by experience
Why Aren’t More Drugs Already on the Market Repurposed for Other Diseases?
Structuring incentives — extended patent protection, expedited approval — turns out to be remarkably difficult
Providing Paid Parental Leave Typically Costs Employers Less Than Replacing Workers Who Quit
Custom database tracks movement of 5.3 million workers, reveals unappreciated economics of little-offered benefit
Reducing Partisan Hostility Can Be Surprisingly Simple
Megastudy: strategies reduce political animosity, but don’t necessarily improve — and may harm — commitment to democratic principles
Grocery Delivery: Beyond a Gratuity, What Motivates a Gig Driver?
You as a customer can control two factors — time of day and whether you insist on personally accepting the goods — but not the third, route density