Wharton School

One drink a day linked with reduced brain size

The Penn-led research, using a dataset of more than 36,000 adults, revealed that going from one to two drinks a day was associated with changes in the brain equivalent to aging two years. Heavier drinking was linked with an even greater toll.

Katherine Unger Baillie

How fracking could cushion oil price shocks

A Wharton research paper makes the business case for fracking as a viable mitigating factor to soften the impact of oil and gas price shocks fueled by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, from disruption of gas flows to oil companies caught amidst sanctions.

From Knowledge at Wharton

How social media firms moderate their content

Wharton marketing professors Pinar Yildirim and Z. John Zhang, and Wharton doctoral candidate Yi Liu show how a social media firm’s content moderation strategy is influenced mostly by its revenue model.

From Knowledge at Wharton



In the News


The New York Times

How Kennedy could make it harder for you and your family to get vaccinated

In a co-written opinion essay, PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel explains how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies in the Trump administration could discourage the use and research of vaccines.

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Scientific American

Grumpy voters want better stories. Not statistics

In a Q&A, PIK Professor Duncan Watts says that U.S. voters ignored Democratic policy in favor of Republican storytelling.

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The Independent

How the stock market could be last guardrails to corral Trump’s wildest whims

Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School says that Donald Trump measured his success in his first term by the performance of the stock market.

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Business Insider

The hidden risk factor investors may be missing in stocks, bonds, and options

A study by Nikolai Roussanov of the Wharton School and colleagues finds that stocks, bonds, and options strategies could have more correlated risk than is evident on the surface.

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The Wall Street Journal

How AI could help bring down the cost of college

Kartik Hosanagar of the Wharton School explains how AI could bring down prices for more complex and expensive services like higher education.

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