Economics News

July 19, 2024

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Study Shows New Efficiency Standards for Heavy Trucks Could Boost Energy Use

July 18, 2024 — A new study suggests that the U.S. government's push to increase heavy-duty trucks' energy efficiency could encourage more shipping by truck instead of rail, reducing the policies' anticipated ...

Bridging the 'Valley of Death' in Carbon Capture

July 17, 2024 — PrISMa is a new platform that uses advanced simulations and machine learning to streamline carbon capture technologies, by taking into account the perspectives of diverse stakeholders early in the research ...

Nature-Based Solutions to Disaster Risk from Climate Change Are Cost Effective

July 16, 2024 — A new global assessment of scientific literature finds that nature-based solutions (NbS) are an economically effective method to mitigate risks from a range of disasters -- from floods and hurricanes ...

Researchers Examine Economic Effects on Technological Advancements of Blue Hydrogen Production

July 9, 2024 — Experience from the deployment of blue hydrogen projects will be helpful in lowering future costs of hydrogen production and will remain cost competitive. Additionally, paired with extended tax ...

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Tax on Antibiotics Could Help Tackle Threat of Drug-Resistance

July 1, 2024 — Taxing certain antibiotics could help efforts to tackle the escalating threat of antibiotic resistance in humans, according to a new ...

Crucial Gaps in Climate Risk Assessment Methods

July 2, 2024 — Researchers have uncovered significant flaws in current climate risk assessment techniques that could lead to a severe underestimation of climate-related financial losses for businesses and ...

Rising Health Care Prices Are Driving Unemployment and Job Losses

June 24, 2024 — Rising health care prices in the U.S. are leading employers outside the health care sector to reduce their payroll and decrease their number of employees, according to a new study. The study found ...

Improving Soil Health Yields Unexpected Benefits for Farmers

June 15, 2024 — While farmer surveys suggest that carbon prices are still too low relative to the paperwork these programs demand, a new study finds that money alone does not explain either farmers' doubts about ...

Boosting Biodiversity Without Hurting Local Economies

June 21, 2024 — Protected areas, like nature reserves, can conserve biodiversity without harming local economic growth, countering a common belief that conservation restricts development. A new study outlines what ...

Synthetic Data Holds the Key to Determining Best Statewide Transit Investments

June 14, 2024 — Synthetically generated population data can reveal the equity impacts of distributing transportation resources and funding across diverse regions, ...

A Conservation Market Could Incentivize Global Ocean Protection

June 13, 2024 — Thirty-by-thirty: protect 30% of the planet by 2030. While conservation is popular in principle, the costs of actually enacting it often stall even the most earnest efforts. Researchers have now ...

Only One in 20 Therapies Tested in Animals Reach Approval for Human Use

June 13, 2024 — An analysis of reviews of translational biomedical research reveals that just 5% of therapies tested in animals reach regulatory approval for human use. The umbrella review summarizes other ...

Case Studies Show How Quasi-Governmental Organizations Could Strengthen Climate Adaptation Governance

June 10, 2024 — The politicization of climate issues and the unsynchronized efforts of stakeholders are hindering the effectiveness of climate adaptation governance ...

Study Offers a Better Way to Make AI Fairer for Everyone

June 6, 2024 — Scientists show a new way of thinking about the fair impacts of AI decisions. They draw on a well-established tradition known as social welfare optimization, which aims to make decisions fairer by ...

Earlier Headlines

Gender Inequality Across US States Revealed by New Tool

July 17, 2024 — Researchers have developed and validated a new tool for comparing gender inequality among different regions of a country, highlighting links between gender inequality, wellbeing, and participation in ...

Additional Taxes Vs. Water Quotas: Study Compares the Most Effective System to Manage Water Consumption in Agriculture

July 16, 2024 — A new study finds that the proportional allocation of water, and not additional taxes on the resource, is more effective from the point of view of those engaged in ...

Living Near Oil and Gas Activity Linked to Poor Mental Health During Preconception

July 12, 2024 — A new study suggests that people who are trying to conceive and live close to oil and gas development sites have a heightened risk of developing adverse mental health outcomes. The study found that ...

Return-to-Work Programs May Have a Hidden Cost to Women, According to Study

July 9, 2024 — Despite offering a path back to careers, returner programmes leave women vulnerable to wage gaps and limited advancement, according to new research from the University of ...

Companies That Mitigate Climate Change Reduce Their Cost of Capital

July 8, 2024 — A recent study explored the relationship between corporate climate change mitigation actions and the cost of capital for 2,100 Japanese listed companies from 2017 to 2021. The findings reveal that ...

Hybrid Work Is a 'Win-Win-Win' for Companies, Workers

June 12, 2024 — In the largest study yet of working-from-home professionals, economists reveal that employees who work from home two days a week are just as productive, likely to get promoted, and far less prone to ...

Basic Income Can Double Global GDP While Reducing Carbon Emissions

June 7, 2024 — Giving a regular cash payment to the entire world population has the potential to increase global gross domestic product (GDP) by 130%, according to a new analysis. Researchers suggest that charging ...

Sunshine Spurs Spending: Investors Bet Big on Sunny Days

June 3, 2024 — New research has found a connection between pleasant weather conditions and higher investment in lottery-like ...

Health Risk from Global Warming Predictor of City Climate Action During COVID-19, Study Finds

May 29, 2024 — City officials were more likely to maintain climate action during the pandemic in places with more climate-related health issues affecting ...

How Family Economic Insecurity Can Hurt Child Mental Health

May 23, 2024 — Economic difficulty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic led to a cascade of connected problems for some parents -- resulting in mental health problems for their children, a new study suggests. ...

Social Networks Can Influence Perception of Climate-Change Risk

May 22, 2024 — Short but severe episodes of flooding from hurricanes in Texas and Florida triggered a nationwide increase in flood insurance sign-ups depending on how socially connected a county was to the flooded ...

Differing Values of Nature Can Still Lead to Joined Up Goals for Sustainability

May 17, 2024 — Recognizing and respecting the different ways nature is valued can enable better environmental decision-making, according to new ...

Penalties for Dropping out of Ecosystem Services Incentive Programs Should Equal Lost Environmental Benefits

May 15, 2024 — PES programs are currently structured in ways that could limit their participation or create incentives to drop out before the full environmental benefits are ...

The Price Tag of Phasing-out Coal

May 13, 2024 — Coal phase-out is necessary to solve climate change, but can have negative impacts on workers and local communities dependent on coal for their livelihoods. Researchers have studied government plans ...

Team Studies Factors Related to a Sense of Economic Insecurity in Older Adults

May 13, 2024 — Researchers undertook a study of older adults to examine the connection between a sense of economic insecurity and a person's participation in social ...

Companies May Buy Consumer Genetic Information Despite Its Modest Predictive Power

May 2, 2024 — Genetics can be associated with one's behavior and health -- from the willingness to take risks, and how long one stays in school, to chances of developing Alzheimer's disease and breast ...

Roadmap to Close the Carbon Cycle

May 1, 2024 — Reaching net-zero carbon emissions goals requires finding transformative paths to manage carbon in difficult-to-electrify economic ...

Securing Competitiveness of Energy-Intensive Industries Through Relocation: The Pulling Power of Renewables

Apr. 24, 2024 — Countries with limited potential for renewables could save up to 20 percent of costs for green steel and up to 40 percent for green chemicals from green hydrogen if they relocated their ...

New Study Uncovers Lasting Financial Hardship Associated With Cancer Diagnosis for Working-Age Adults in the U.S.

Apr. 23, 2024 — A new study highlights the lasting financial impact of a cancer diagnosis for many working-age adults and their families in the United States. It shows a cancer diagnosis and the time required for ...

Climate Change Will Increase Value of Residential Rooftop Solar Panels Across US, Study Shows

Apr. 19, 2024 — Climate change will increase the future value of residential rooftop solar panels across the United States by up to 19% by the end of the century, according to a new ...