Contributing Writer: William Laudon | May, 2024 If education is “the key to unlock the golden door of freedom” as George Washington Carver once put it, then this door remains locked for most Americans. Academic achievement gaps are disparities in academic performance among groups of students defined by race-ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geographic location, or other limiting …
Contributing Writer: Thomas Hadcock | May, 2024 “To secure cooperation in the area, flyers were distributed with cartoons of trees growing in the shape of dollar signs.” – Heidi Blake, The New Yorker The world is grappling with the looming and immediate threats posed by climate change and all its concomitant environmental issues. To meet this …
Contributing Writer: Peter Flynn | May, 2024 Every company has an impact on the world that isn’t shown in the financials. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores try to quantify this impact. The goal of ESG is to capture all the non-financial risks and opportunities inherent to a company’s day to day activities (What is ESG, …
Contributing Writer: Zachary Golden | May, 2024 The “eyes on the street” theory hypothesizes that the presence of people in a public space deters crime.[1] American writer Jane Jacobs introduced the theory in her 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. The book is part polemic against the Modernist style of urban planning …
Contributing Writer: Jonathan Tong | May, 2024 The onset of the pandemic came with an exodus in office use. America’s ten largest cities saw their office utilization rates decrease by 80% as companies quickly adopted work-from-home (WFH). Even as the last vestiges of the pandemic fade away, offices remain much emptier than before, exposing an excess …
Contributing Writer: Marissa Stolt | May, 2024 After weeks of battling what seemed like a common cold that would go away without medical intervention, Maria Clark contemplated visiting Urgent Care for treatment. As a low-income individual with children, Maria did not have time or money to waste. Her cold was preventing her from working efficiently to …
Contributing Writer: Genevieve Goetz | May, 2024 “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. There are a lot of assumptions that go into this…it assumes that we are good at teaching people to fish. It assumes that they want to …
Contributing Writer: Urmika Banerjee | May, 2024 Introduction Public health and medical care is a very diverse concept. There is an important connection between consumer behaviour in public health. People tend to look for different things in healthcare, which obviously depends on their needs. Some people seek medicine in order to prevent diseases. Some might use …
Contributing Writer: Shloka Mohanty | May, 2024 Economic transactions often entail an inherent information and control asymmetry between parties involved, with one side possessing greater insight and authority. Asymmetric information is particularly pronounced in lending scenarios, where borrowers typically have a more nuanced understanding of fund utilization and associated risks. Such informational asymmetry poses a significant …
Contributing Writer: Wyatt Broscious | May, 2024 Background: Dr. Cody Kallen is an Economist, working at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in the International Finance division. He graduated with a PhD in Finance and Economics at UW Madison in 2023. His research interests include multinational firms, tax policy, firm and business …