Thought Leadership
For STAARS fellows and mentors, their Business is a Better World
Through STAARS, talented, young African economists continue their education with policy-oriented research on the structural transformation of rural Africa.
Research Recap: Wage transparency reduces gender pay gap by 7%
A new working paper from Margarita Tsoutsoura and co-authors shows that pay transparency has a positive impact on closing the wage gap.
Research: Gender pay gaps shrink when companies are required to disclose them
Margarita Tsoutsoura, associate professor of finance, co-authors research on the gender pay gap, featured in Harvard Business Review.
Research Recap: Which personal values drive actions to avert climate change?
Robert Bloomfield and co-authors find certain moral values influence a willingness to make personal choices to mitigate the future impact of climate change.
Contributor and co-editor Chris Barrett addresses resilience in the face of chronic poverty in new book
A new book, The Economics of Poverty Traps, co-edited by Chris Barrett, highlights research on the mechanisms that keep people entrenched in poverty.
A new approach to thinking: Performance-based pay in the nonprofit sector
Research by Dr. Sarah Wolfolds, Assistant Professor at the Dyson School, reveals how firms can use performance-based pay to their advantage in the non-profit sector.
Cornell study highlights the critical importance of brand consistency
Chris Anderson’s study found that consistency within a brand is increasingly important, as compared to location and reputation across a chain scale.
Mathematical elegance meets social relevance in the research of Vincent Slaugh
Vince Slaugh, assistant professor, has focused his research on questions related to nursing-home staffing and maximizing adoption opportunities for teens.
Breaking ground in fintech research—it’s not “too new” to pursue
Learn how Andrew Karolyi, professor and academic dean, put in motion an innovative process to generate the first-ever body of scholarly research on fintech.