Witold Henisz of the Wharton School says that America’s increasing polarization may lead to red and blue banks and supermarkets.
Sarah E. Light of the Wharton School says that regulators are probably under-enforcing compared to the number of environmental claims in companies’ marketing.
A study by Eugenia C. South of the Perelman School of Medicine and John MacDonald of the School of Arts & Sciences and colleagues found that repairing a home can reduce crime on a block by 23 percent.
In partnership with Penn, a pilot program at Rooted School Indianapolis will study how teenagers learn to manage money by providing them with weekly allowances.
A team of researchers from Penn and the University of Pisa, led by Holly Pittman of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Penn Museum, have excavated a site in Iraq that could contain the oldest tavern ever discovered.
Kent Smetters of the Wharton School and colleagues found that achieving fiscal balance would require the federal government to hike tax revenues by more than 40% or cut expenditures by 30%, or some combination of the two.
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton calls the Kia Boyz Challenge on TikTok a “perfect storm” for young people in cities where vehicle theft is common, since they know it could be a shortcut to notoriety.