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Is algorithmic management too controlling?

New research from Wharton’s Lindsey Cameron looks at how gig workers are dealing with strict managers who aren’t human.

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Report encourages equity in pay for people with disabilities

New research from Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine finds no significant negative impact of repealing a Depression-era law allowing companies to pay workers with disabilities below minimum wage.

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How to reduce partisan animosity

Matthew Levendusky, a professor of political science in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences, explains the results of a megastudy that explores whether anything could bridge the political gap between the left and right among Americans.

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Patterns of Soviet Jewish emigration in the post-Stalin era

For four decades, more than one million Jews left the USSR despite the Soviet Union’s complex bureaucracy and opposition to emigration. Doctoral candidate Sasha Zborovsky explores the intricate dynamics.

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From one gene switch, many possible outcomes

A team of researchers led by Aman Husbands of the School of Arts & Sciences has uncovered surprising ways transcription factors—the genetic switches for genes—regulate plant development, revealing how subtle changes in a lipid-binding region can dramatically alter gene regulation.

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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A link between liver-brain communication and daily eating patterns

A new study by researchers at Penn Medicine finds that disconnecting a connection in the vagus nerve corrects overeating and weight gain caused by a defective “liver clock.”

Why the return to office workforce is coming back less diverse

A study by the Wharton School found that changing job openings to remote work at startups increased female applicants by 15% and minority applicants by 33%.

The more students miss class, the worse teachers feel about their jobs

A study co-authored by Michael Gottfried of the Graduate School of Education finds that teacher satisfaction steadily drops as student absenteeism increases.

Diversity will suffer with five-day office mandates, research suggests

A 2024 Wharton School study found that changing job openings to remote work at startups increased female applicants by 15% and minority applicants by 33%.

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