A self-reinforcing cycle connecting depleted soils and rural farmers may be one answer why Sub-Saharan Africa is home to most of the world's extreme poor, say Cornell researchers.
Researchers find that people who were relatively tall as teens are more likely to invest in stocks, and those who were overweight are more risk-averse and less likely to participate in the market.
With soda taxes on the ballot in four cities Nov. 8, and a law on deck in 2017 in another, behavioral economist John Cawley says these taxes have increased soda prices by only half as much as they were intended to.
John Hale's study, “Modeling fMRI time courses with linguistic structure at various grain sizes,” examines how the individual words of Lewis Carroll's famous tale come together to yield an understanding of each sentence.
Vanquishing the agony of defeat, Cornell food scientists now have better grasp on the sweet, thrilling taste of victory. And in the face of loss, the researchers found prompts for emotional eating.
The way conservation biologists describe a species' risk of extinction, and how the public interprets that description, can be strikingly different, according to a new study by Cornell communication scholars.
Cornell professors Laura Harrington and Alaka Basu briefed the Washington, D.C., press March 15 on the fight against the mosquito-spread Zika virus, which threatens pregnant women worldwide.
Political scientist Adam Seth Levine offers a new perspective on barriers to political involvement on economic insecurity concerns in his new book, "American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction."
At the China-Asia Pacific Studies Program roundtable Oct. 19 in Kaufman Auditorium, Cornell faculty members discussed the implications of the American election on U.S. relations with Asia.
In his new book, “Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World," Peter Enns sheds new light on the high U.S. rate of incarceration.