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Gal Smitizsky of the Wharton School discusses why a growing number of American consumers are willing to spend more to save time.

Katy Milkman of the Wharton School talks about “temptation bundling” to develop and reinforce desirable habits by coupling something we enjoy with something we might otherwise skip.

Penn Medicine’s development of a successful gene therapy treatment for a pediatric patient was recognized internationally.

Katy Milkman of the Wharton School led a study showing that consistent email reminders increased the likelihood of people saving money.

Penn is the first Ivy League school to offer both undergraduate and graduate A.I. programs.

Researchers in the Weitzman School of Design are helping make concrete greener by 3D printing streamlined concrete forms and developing alternative concrete mixtures that absorb more carbon from the air. Masoud Akbarzadeh is quoted.

Katy Milkman of the Wharton School says that people gravitate to New Year’s Day to reset as part of the “fresh start effect.”

A survey by Ran Barzilay of the Perelman School of Medicine found that youngsters who received cell phones at age 12, compared with age 13, had a more than 60 percent higher risk of poor sleep and a more than 40 percent higher risk of obesity.

In an opinion essay, Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences writes that “successful people rarely rely on inner fortitude to resist temptations. Instead, many exercise situational agency, arranging their lives to minimize the needful willpower in the first place.”