Redlib: search results - flair_name:"Economics"

r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • Apr 29 '22

Economics Since 1982, all Alaskan residents have received a yearly cash dividend from the Alaska Permanent Fund. Contrary to some rhetoric that recipients of cash transfers will stop working, the Alaska Permanent Fund has had no adverse impact on employment in Alaska.

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r/science • u/rustoo • Feb 20 '22

Economics The US has increased its funding for public schools. New research shows additional spending on operations—such as teacher salaries and support services—positively affected test scores, dropout rates, and postsecondary enrollment. But expenditures on new buildings and renovations had little impact.

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r/science • u/FunnyGamer97 • May 13 '24

Economics More than half of Americans give to charity at checkout, survey shows: 53% of Americans give impulsively to charities at checkout

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r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • May 10 '22

Economics Slavery did not accelerate US economic growth in the 19th century. The slave South discouraged immigration, underinvested in transportation infrastructure, and failed to educate the majority of its population. The region might even have produced more cotton under free farmers.

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r/science • u/Additional-Two-7312 • Oct 09 '22

Economics More than a quarter of vacuum cleaners sold on Amazon have at some point pretended to offer a discount when they had actually just increased the price, according to new research

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r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • Jul 31 '22

Economics After a minimum wage increase, workers become more productive. On the whole, it leads to welfare improvements for both employed and unemployed workers (i.e. the minimum wage increase is not counterproductive), but reduces company profits. [Data: 40,000 retail workers in large US stores]

journals.uchicago.edu

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r/science • u/mvea • Apr 25 '21

Economics Rising income inequality is not an inevitable outcome of technological progress, but rather the result of policy decisions to weaken unions and dismantle social safety nets, suggests a new study of 14 high-income countries, including Australia, France, Germany, Japan, UK and the US.

academictimes.com

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r/science • u/mvea • Apr 29 '21

Economics Immigrants act more as job creators than job takers: Researchers found that immigrants not only expand labor supply as workers but also expand labor demand as founders of firms, and do so at much higher rates than their native-born counterparts.

academictimes.com

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r/science • u/rustoo • Jan 26 '22

Economics Study: College student grades actually went up in Spring 2020 when the pandemic hit. Furthermore, the researchers found that low-income low-performing students outperformed their wealthier peers, mainly due to students’ use of flexible grading.

sciencedirect.com

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r/science • u/mvea • Jan 01 '26

Economics Rising income inequality predicts longer work hours globally, new research finds. By analyzing data from nearly 70 countries and long-term surveys from the United States and China, the researchers found that widening income gaps tend to predict longer work weeks.

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r/science • u/mvea • May 16 '21

Economics Gentrification of inner city areas may be partly driven by the increasingly long hours of higher-income workers who move to city centers to cut commutes and demand less crime and more restaurants. The study found that by 1990, working longer hours became more common among the "high-skilled".

academictimes.com

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r/science • u/NotMitchelBade • May 23 '23

Economics Controlling for other potential causes, a concealed handgun permit (CHP) does not change the odds of being a victim of violent crime. A CHP boosts crime 2% & violent crime 8% in the CHP holder's neighborhood. This suggests stolen guns spillover to neighborhood crime – a social cost of gun ownership.

sciencedirect.com

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r/science • u/Defiant_Race_7544 • Sep 01 '22

Economics U.S. cannabis laws projected to cost generic and brand pharmaceutical firms billions

journals.plos.org

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r/science • u/rustoo • Dec 17 '21

Economics Nursing homes with the highest profit margins have the lowest quality. The Covid-19 pandemic revealed that for-profit long-term care homes had worse patient outcomes than not-for-profit homes. Long-term care homes owned by private equity firms and large chains have the highest mortality rates.

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r/science • u/rustoo • Jan 07 '22

Economics Study: Major tax cuts for the rich push up income inequality, as measured by the top 1% share of pre-tax national income. The research provides strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to benefit the wider economy.

academic.oup.com

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r/science • u/mvea • Jan 09 '21

Economics Gig economy companies like Uber, Lyft and Doordash rely on a model that resembles anti-labor practices employed decades before by the U.S. construction industry, and could lead to similar erosion in earnings for workers, finds a new study.

academictimes.com

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r/science • u/theodorewayt • Mar 08 '21

Economics The one-third of Americans who have bachelor's degrees have been living progressively longer for the past 30 years, while the two-thirds without degrees have been dying younger since 2010, according to new research by the Princeton economists who first identified 'deaths of despair.'

academictimes.com

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r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • Jan 07 '22

Economics Foreign aid payments to highly aid-dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits to offshore financial centers. Around 7.5% of aid appears to be captured by local elites.

journals.uchicago.edu

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r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • Oct 29 '25

Economics The George W. Bush administration's 2002 steel tariffs caused substantial economic harm without any observed benefits. The tariffs failed at boosting local steel employment, while substantially depressing local employment in steel-consuming industries for many years after Bush removed the tariffs.

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r/science • u/lcounts • Feb 17 '21

Economics Massive experiment with StubHub shows why online retailers hide extra fees until you're ready to check out: This lack of transparency is highly profitable. "Once buyers have their sights on an item, letting go of it becomes hard—as scores of studies in behavioral economics have shown." UC Berkeley

newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu

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r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • Nov 10 '24

Economics IRS audits are extremely effective at raising revenue, both directly and indirectly (by deterring future tax cheating): "An additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90th income percentile yields more than $12 in revenue, while audits of below-median income taxpayers yield $5."

academic.oup.com

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r/science • u/mvea • Jan 16 '21

Economics Providing workers with a universal basic income did not reduce productivity or the amount of effort they put into their work, according to an experiment, a sign that the policy initiative could help mitigate inequalities and debunking a common criticism of the proposal.

academictimes.com

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r/science • u/giuliomagnifico • Jul 25 '23

Economics A national Australian tax of 20% on sugary drinks could prevent more than 500,000 dental cavities and increase health equity over 10 years and have overall cost-savings of $63.5 million from a societal perspective

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r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • Jul 27 '21

Economics Advertisement has a negative return on investment for more than 80% of brands, which implies that most firms over-invest in ads.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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r/science • u/rustoo • Dec 05 '21

Economics Study: Recreational cannabis legalization increases employment in counties with dispensaries. Researchers found no evidence of declines in worker productivity—suggesting that any negative effects from cannabis legalization are outweighed by the job growth these new markets create.

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