Expansion of the Child Tax Credit gives researchers a unique example of a universally praised social good that disproportionately benefited some populations.
Sendhil Mullainathan ’93, a scholar and writer who uses machine learning to find new approaches to complex problems in medicine, policy and human behavior, will deliver the Messenger Lectures on Nov. 11-13.
At the May event, students covered topics focused on countries around the globe and ranging from immigration, home care workers and female sports culture to the U.S.-China relationship, the repatriation of cultural objects and AI and literature.
Sunita Sah, professor in the Johnson School of Management, has written “Defy: The Power of No in a World That Demands Yes,” a book that reveals why people need to develop more agency in their lives and change the world they live in.
A girl who attends a school with classmates whose mothers work is more likely to be in the workforce when she has a child herself than a girl who grows up in local circles where most mothers stay at home, Cornell researchers have found.
Mimicry appears to be a fundamental behavior that helps people understand each other, not just when they get along, new Cornell psychology research finds.