Research

A paper co-authored by Daniel Garrett of the Wharton School found that Texas’s anti-ESG law would cost its taxpayers as much as half a billion dollars in extra borrowing costs in eight months just to pay for basic infrastructure.

Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing worries that states are opting for the “window dressing” of politically palatable staffing committees over California-style ratios that have measurably increased nurse staffing.

A study co-authored by Wharton School researchers found that short-term rentals tend to be concentrated in neighborhoods where rental housing dominates, with the emergence of companies like Airbnb causing units to be shifted away from the standard market.

According to a study by researchers from the Wharton School and Open AI, the occupations most vulnerable to generative AI include mathematicians, interpreters, web designers, and journalists.

A profile of Jessica DeJesus of the Weitzman School of Design examines her past work at Prospanica Philadelphia empowering Hispanic professionals to achieve their full potential.

A partnership between the New Bolton Center at the School of Veterinary Medicine and Mason’s Chrome View dairy in Nottingham, Pennsylvania, has led to new experimentation methods with cow care and dairy science.

A paper by Britta Glennon of the Wharton School shows that firms respond to restrictions on H-1B immigration by increasing foreign affiliate employment at the intensive and extensive margins, particularly in China, India and Canada.

PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton, founder and director of the SAFELab, discusses the initiative’s research on grief, gun violence, and social media as well as its new space at the Pennovation Center.

A 2020 study by researchers from Penn and Georgetown University found that changing how a situation was framed impacted empathic and prosocial responses to another person in distress.