In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The second-year public school teacher, who recently completed his first course in Penn GSE’s Education Entrepreneurship master’s program, left a lucrative Wall Street career to teach at Philadelphia’s Northeast High School.
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Wharton finance professors David Musto and Krista Schwarz explain why there was an unusually big price gap between Treasury bonds and notes during the financial crisis.
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Wharton's Marshall Meyer and Minyuan Zhao, and Penn Law's Jacques deLisle discuss China's efforts to grow its population by offering tax benefits, housing and education subsidies, and longer paternity and maternity leave to lift birth rates.
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A new brief by Wharton's Exequiel Hernandez suggests that the value of immigrants, in economic terms, should not be measured in jobs and wages alone, but firms should recognize capital investment, innovation, and their presence in a community as positive factors for growth.
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Wharton's Philip Nichols and Joao Gomes discuss the collapse of the Turkish lira in recent months, raising concern that the country’s financial troubles could spread to Europe and beyond.
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In a new paper, Wharton professors Ron Berman and Christophe Van den Bulte reveal that 57% of marketers are incorrectly crunching the data and potentially getting the wrong answer—and perhaps costing companies a lot of money.
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This summer, students from the high school are participating in a “reverse internship” at Penn GSE, giving their perspective about school and life to new students in Penn GSE’s Urban Teaching Apprentice Program.
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Wharton's David Zaring argues that the Securities and Exchange Commission's five-year statute of limitations could be successfully overturned, leading to more prosecutions of powerful racketeers.
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The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice anticipates funding multiple projects each academic year, with an average award size of $50,000 per project, that will work to improve the country's criminal justice system.
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Wharton's Sarah Light and John Paul MacDuffie discuss a proposal to freeze U.S. fuel efficiency standards, a move that would reverse an Obama-era policy calling on automakers to hit an efficiency target of 54.5 mpg by 2025.
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