Men who shave their heads may save money on hair products. But according to recent research, they may achieve another benefit: a bump in perceptions about their dominance. It’s a conundrum that most ...

Wharton’s Philip Tetlock discusses the widening chasm between science-based political forecasting and the sound bites from pundits that often miss the mark. Tune into any cable news program and ...

The following article was written by Dr. Cornelia C. Walther, a visiting scholar at Wharton and director of global alliance POZE. A humanitarian practitioner who spent over 20 years at the United ...

Wharton finance professor Michael R. Roberts revisits whether homeowners should invest extra money rather than use it to make additional mortgage payments in the current economic environment. In this ...

Immediate rate hike unlikely: The Fed may not raise interest rates unless inflation worsens alarmingly. The markets had reacted to the latest CPI (Consumer Price Index) data with the expectation that ...

In June 2010, in the days leading up to Mexico’s state elections, Rodolfo Torre, a leading gubernatorial candidate from the northern state of Tamaulipas, was assassinated. He had campaigned against ...

Researchers from Wharton and Penn have developed a new tool to equip news consumers with a way to gauge bias in media. The Media Bias Detector uses artificial intelligence to analyze articles from ...

You are tracked more often, and in more meaningful ways, than you think. Wharton and Penn experts reveal exactly how your data is sold, shared and leaked. Earlier this month, California Gov. Gavin ...

“How is it that in the middle of a relatively small town of about 125,000 people in Minnesota, you’ve got the number-one-rated health care system probably in the world?” The question was put to ...

Wharton’s Benjamin Lockwood explains why state-run lotteries are so compelling to consumers, even when they know the odds are stacked against winning. Americans spend more than $100 billion a year on ...

Growth stocks don’t generate the long-term returns that would justify their high multiples, according to the 2023 Jacobs Levy Center’s “Best Paper,” co-authored by Wharton’s Sean Myers. “This is ...

Research by Wharton’s Marius Guenzel provides evidence that companies systematically fail to ignore “sunk costs” in losing ventures, which leads to significant investment distortions. “When you take ...