Economics

Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School says that the Federal Reserve’s plan to continue hiking rates into next year heightens the odds of a difficult economic downturn.

In an Op-Ed, Christina A. Roberto and Laura A. Gibson of the Leonard Davis Institute and the Perelman School of Medicine urge cities and states to pass taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages.

Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School says that the Federal Reserve has made tremendous progress in reducing inflation.

Ari Friedman of the Perelman School of Medicine worries that people have become too reliant on urgent care and are skipping preventive care.

Katy Milkman of the Wharton School says that the issue with New Year’s resolutions is the way that people approach them rather than the resolutions themselves.

Rachel Werner of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics says that it’s hard to balance competing life priorities when getting access to care from a doctor’s office or pharmacy.

A study by John Sabelhaus of the Wharton School found that nearly half of U.S. workers don’t have coverage from a work retirement plan, much less a company match.

Research centers at Penn will survey participants after a 12-month guaranteed income pilot program to gauge its impact.

Karen Glanz of the Perelman School of Medicine says that financial incentives for weight-loss would only be impactful if people could keep losing weight at the same rates over a longer term.

Kaleb Nygaard of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the Fed needs to prioritize its inflation fight but that a percentage point rise in unemployment might put more than one and a half million workers out of a job.