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Education, Business, & Law
Olivia S. Mitchell named AEA Distinguished Fellow
Olivia S. Mitchell named AEA Distinguished Fellow
The American Economic Association has named Olivia S. Mitchell of the Wharton School as a 2023 Distinguished Fellow for her seminal research on pensions, Social Security, retirement, and financial literacy.
How households are locked in by rising mortgage rates
How households are locked in by rising mortgage rates
A new paper co-authored by Wharton’s Lu Liu looks at why homeowners become caught in a so-called “mortgage lock-in” and how that impacts their ability to move.
Cross-disciplinary collaboration for a healthier planet
Cross-disciplinary collaboration for a healthier planet
The Environmental Innovations Initiative announces a third round of funded research communities to catalyze interdisciplinary research at Penn, investigating issues from regenerative agriculture to project-based learning for global climate justice.
Suzanne McGraw Foundation makes $5 million gift to Penn GSE around early childhood education
Suzanne McGraw Foundation makes $5 million gift to Penn GSE around early childhood education
The gift is one of the largest ever to the School. It will support student scholarships, a cross-University graduate concentration, and cross-disciplinary programming.
Read this later: A link between procrastination and creativity
Read this later: A link between procrastination and creativity
Procrastination is a near-universal human behavior, with some surprising benefits. But when the time comes to focus, Ryan Miller of the Weingarten Center offers tips and time-management tools.
A conversation on community with Wharton Women in Business
A conversation on community with Wharton Women in Business
For Wharton MBA women, WWIB serves as a guide for confident future leaders. Madeline Donoghue, WWIB’s vice president of admissions, and Krishna Shah, WWIB’s co-president, discuss how the group fosters relationships and community.
Educational inequities? Follow the numbers, says Ericka Weathers
Educational inequities? Follow the numbers, says Ericka Weathers
The Penn GSE professor studies how policies that are supposed to be race-neutral, like school funding formulas, truancy policy, or special education, end up failing marginalized groups, and urges a look at the results of past policies to better inform moving forward.
Katharine O. Strunk named Dean of Penn’s top-ranked Graduate School of Education
Katharine O. Strunk named Dean of Penn’s top-ranked Graduate School of Education
Strunk, an award-winning mixed methods scholar at Michigan State University, is an expert on teacher labor markets, school and district improvement and accountability policies, and efforts to boost student achievement.
Daeyeon Lee delivers lecture on reconnecting in and out of the classroom
Daeyeon Lee delivers lecture on reconnecting in and out of the classroom
Lee, the Evan C Thompson Term Chair for Excellence in Teaching, recently delivered the 2023 Evan C Thompson Lecture, focusing on how to improve students’ sense of community.
Sophia Z. Lee named Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Sophia Z. Lee named Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Lee is currently a professor of law with a secondary appointment in history, and has been a member of the Penn Carey Law faculty since 2009.
In the News
Big Think
The psychology of persuasion, as told by an Ivy League professor
Jonah Berger of the Wharton School shares three strategies for getting peers and target audiences to say “yes.”
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Barron’s
Philanthropy is changing as individual donations decline
According to a Penn study, individual donations fell about 4.5 % during the pandemic, but the average amount of each gift surged more than 200%.
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Reuters
‘A lot quieter’ Black Friday brings out discount hunters
Barbara Kahn of the Wharton School says that consumers are more value conscious and are spending more conservatively.
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The New York Times
Everybody knows Flo from Progressive. Who is Stephanie Courtney?
Cait Lamberton of the Wharton School says that familiarity with advertising content can overpower distaste, since complaining about something trivial can be a very comforting experience.
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The Washington Post
Where in America are we actually building new housing?
An analysis by Joseph Gyourko of the Wharton School evaluated how much zoning and related restrictions added to the cost of a typical quarter-acre lot from 2013 to 2018, by metro region.
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