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Opinion | Is It Safer to Visit a Coffee Shop or a Gym? (Published 2020)
As states begin to reopen, Americans are looking at any trip outside through the lens of contagion. Is it safe to go back to Starbucks? What about the gym? Nail salons are out of the question, right? The country faces an ugly trade-off. Keep the economy closed and prolong the economic misery. Or open up the economy and risk a resurgence of Covid-19, undoing the gains earned through weeks of social isolation. We believe there’s another option.
Justin Wolfers
Justin Wolfers is a Professor of Economics and a Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution.
FILE PHOTO: Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump rally against the congressional impeachment inquiry outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S. October 17, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso/File Photo Until now, research into how long American voters spent waiting to cast their ballots has been limited by the means of data collection, largely self-reported surveys and the accounts of observers at a few hundred polling places.
Opinion | There are stark racial disparities in voting times. Here’s how to fix them.
Kareem Haggag is a professor of behavioral economics at Carnegie Mellon University. Devin Pope is a professor of behavioral science at University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Until now, research into how long American voters spend waiting to cast their ballots has been limited by the means of data collection, largely self-reported surveys and the accounts of observers at a few hundred polling places.
Here's how to fix the stark racial disparities in voting times.
Kareem Haggag and Devin Pope, The Washington Post Published 10:03 am PST, Friday, December 27, 2019 Until now, research into how long American voters spent waiting to cast their ballots has been limited by the means of data collection, largely self-reported surveys and the accounts of observers at a few hundred polling places.
Free Throws Get Carnegie Mellon Past Behrend
Posted: Dec 07, 2019 PITTSBURGH, Pa. – The Carnegie Mellon men's basketball scored the final four points of the game to defeat Penn State Behrend 69-66 in non-conference action on Saturday afternoon.
Career Night Lifts Men's Basketball Over Thiel
Posted: Nov 12, 2019 GREENVILLE, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend men's basketball team shot 57.4 percent from the floor to register a 94-73 win over Thiel in their non-conference season opener on Tuesday night.
Predict science to improve science
Policy ForumSocial Science Stefano DellaVigna1, Devin Pope2, Eva Vivalt3 1Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. 2The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL, USA. 3Research School of Economics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Email: eva.vivalt{at}anu.edu.au See allHide authors and affiliations Science 25 Oct 2019: Vol. 366, Issue 6464, pp.
Women who are elite mathematicians are less likely than men to believe they’re elite mathematicians
Women, as a now-former Google engineer recently reminded the world, are underrepresented in several mathematical fields, including physics, computer science and engineering. The causes of that underrepresentation are hotly debated, with barriers to entry and gender differences in test scores widely discussed as underlying reasons. But new data analysis underscores the importance of another factor in the gap: confidence.
What We’re Reading
By Devin G. Pope in The New York Times As colleges release admissions decisions for the class of 2021 Devin G. Pope, professor of behavioral science at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, explores how admissions officers can use data beyond cumulative grade point average to better predict student success. Daniel Ruston, Senior Product Designer at Google, offers his perspective on designing for emotion and creating meaningful experiences.
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