New study finds private financial firms disproportionately promote upper-class white men
New research on 806 Wall Street executives finds that hedge funds and private equity firms, often built as informal partnerships, ...
Why people at the bottom of the ladder speed up their speech to match the boss
A new study finds that employees in low-power positions speed up their speech to match fast-talking partners, while those higher ...
What makes a public service job attractive? A new study sorts out which perks matter most
Researchers ran an experiment asking over 1,300 citizens to choose between hypothetical job offers. The results reveal what really attracts ...
What a CEO’s tweets reveal about their paycheck
Researchers analyzed 208,050 tweets from S&P 1500 CEOs and found that two personality traits predicted higher pay, with better investment ...
When optimism mutes the message: How investor mood shapes crypto’s response to economic news
A study of 100 cryptocurrencies and 32 U.S. economic releases finds that bullish investor sentiment significantly weakens how sharply crypto ...
Why nominal interest rates bite harder than textbooks suggest
New research argues that fixed nominal mortgage payments and payment-to-income limits mean nominal interest rates directly affect what households can ...
California’s $20 fast food wage pushed restaurant prices up 3.4% across the state, new analysis finds
A new analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data finds that California's $20 fast food minimum wage pushed restaurant prices ...
The psychology of “manifesting”: Why believers feel more successful but often aren’t
A new scale measuring belief in "manifestation" finds that about a third of Americans endorse it. Believers feel more successful ...
How AI is rewriting the marketer’s playbook, according to a wide-ranging literature review
A literature review of more than 200 publications maps how AI is being woven into marketing, from programmatic advertising to ...
When a CEO’s foreign accent becomes an asset: What investors actually hear
An experiment using AI-generated CEO voices finds that investors were willing to invest more in companies led by foreign-accented CEOs ...