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Rethinking Social Support
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Daniels School economics professor Victoria Prowse rethinks the effectiveness of social support, including unemployment insurance and welfare, in the face of diverse needs.
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Have Your Cake, Eat It, and Work Better
Monday, December 9, 2024
The Daniels School’s Kate Zipay, an assistant professor of organizational behavior and human resources, says we should treat leisure and work as allies, not enemies.
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Hidden Costs: The impact of medical marijuana policy on state finances
Monday, November 25, 2024
In the paper “Marijuana liberalization and public finance: A capital market perspective on the passage of medical use laws,” published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Gus De Franco, the Emanuel T. Weiler Professor at Purdue’s Mitch Daniels School of Business, investigates the impact of medical marijuana law (MML) enactment on the borrowing costs of state governments.
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New Study Shows Worker Health Declines as Sales Surge
Monday, November 11, 2024
Two Daniels School economists examine the consequences of higher workloads on employee health in their paper “No Pain, No Gain: Work Demand, Work Effort, and Worker Health.” Purdue’s David Hummels and Chong Xiang find striking impacts on the health of workers when companies’ sales increase rapidly.
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