When doing good becomes a cost: India’s CSR mandate and the hidden hit to stock returns
A study of 2,017 Indian companies finds that firms forced to spend on CSR under a 2014 mandate saw stock...
Read moreDetailsResearchers pinpoint what remote work takes away that offices provide
Two experience sampling studies of hybrid workers found that remote days bring less coworker small talk, less relational energy, and...
Read moreDetailsPeople prefer prizes that could have been worse, study finds
Seven experiments with 12,000 participants show people prefer prizes that emerged from uncertainty over identical prizes given outright, apparently because...
Read moreDetailsWhen retirement feels out of reach: The health toll of working out of necessity
A six-year analysis of more than 5,000 older U.S. workers finds that 77% wanted to retire but felt they couldn't,...
Read moreDetailsSeven decades of stock forecasts reveal a hidden divide between sophisticated analysts and everyday investors
MIT economists digitized 70 years of Value Line forecasts and found that sophisticated analysts and individual investors hold opposing views...
Read moreDetailsShoppers hate skimpflation more than shrinkflation, new research finds
Across ten experiments, shoppers judged quality-cutting more harshly than shrinking packages or raising prices, and were less willing to buy...
Read moreDetailsWhen central bank bond-buying pays for itself: A new look at QE’s fiscal scorecard
An IMF team's model finds quantitative easing typically improves the government's overall fiscal position, even when central banks take large...
Read moreDetailsWhen “Eight” beats “8”: How spelled-out numbers change flavor expectations
New research finds that numbers in food and drink brand names raise taste expectations, with written-out numbers like "Two" outperforming...
Read moreDetailsThe hidden asymmetry in how coworkers respond to each other’s feelings
New research finds employees rarely acknowledge their boss's emotions, but when they do, bosses reciprocate with more attentive responses to...
Read moreDetailsWhy salaried jobs might handle AI differently than hourly ones
A new working paper models what happens when workers enjoy their tasks enough to work on them unpaid. The result...
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