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It’s no accident that money obtained through dishonest or illegal means is called “dirty money.” A new UC Berkeley study suggests that when people perceive money as morally tainted, they also view it as having less value and purchasing power, challenging the belief that all money is green, and that people will cross ethical boundaries to amass it.
Tag: economics
Architecture student wins prestigious new sustainability fellowship
May 21, 2013:
By updating and expanding California’s utility-allowance calculator, Berkeley grad student Antony Kim hopes to make sustainable architecture more available to low-cost housing developers. He and his faculty mentor, Galen Cranz, are winners of the first-ever Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowship, which encourages the design of sustainable products and processes.
Professor makes case for U.S.-Mexico border without walls
March 19, 2013:
Against the background of fierce debate on immigration reform, Michael Dear’s Why Walls Won’t Work examines the often-thriving, but threatened, cross-border lives in communities straddling the U.S.-Mexico border.
Economists, computer scientists awarded prestigious Sloan fellowships
February 19, 2013:
UC Berkeley economists Frederico Finan and Yuriy Gorodnichenko and computer scientists Björn Hartmann and Michael Lustig are among 126 young scholars awarded prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships for 2013.
Prize highlights young economist’s steady, bold trajectory
January 16, 2013:
BERKELEY — UC Berkeley economist Ulrike Malmendier could have chosen any number of career paths. After all, she speaks six languages, is fascinated with Latin and Greek, and loves physics and math. While working on a Ph.D. in law, another focus of her eclectic interests, she took a modern-economics course and that changed everything. Malmendier set off to explore the [...]
Researchers find minimal state cost from Medicaid expansion in California
January 7, 2013:
California has the opportunity to significantly increase health insurance coverage at minimal cost to the state budget, according to a joint study by UC Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Economist David Card named 2013 AAPSS fellow
December 13, 2012:
Economist David Card is honored for his work “writ large.”
Food Day report: Minimum-wage hike would raise food prices pennies, help millions
October 24, 2012:
A new report released today, national Food Day 2012, says that a proposal pending in Congress to raise the minimum wage would increase retail food prices for American consumers by about 10 cents a day, while helping nearly 8 million food workers and 21 million other workers. Campus celebrates Food Day.
USAID chief lauds Blum Center as model in search for global solutions
October 11, 2012:
USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah visited campus and encouraged students to join the search for open source solutions to pressing global problems.
Voters act on performance, not policy, new book says
October 2, 2012:
Politicians may focus on policy issues in hopes of persuading voters, but a new book by a UC Berkeley political scientist says that’s not what matters most to voters.
Poll shows Proposition 30 with strongest support of all California tax initiatives
September 19, 2012:
A new poll of California voters, conducted by the Institute of Governmental Affairs and the Field Poll, outlines the positions of three competing tax measures on the November ballot.
UC Berkeley experts, events and Election 2012
September 19, 2012:
A host of upcoming events featuring UC Berkeley experts will explore various facets of the November election.
Sept. 21 conference explores California’s fiscal crisis
September 13, 2012:
The Institute of Governmental Studies is sponsoring a Sept. 21 conference to explore “California’s Fiscal Crisis: Prospects for Deficit Reduction and Pension Reform in the Golden State.”
Crowd-sourced online reviews help fill restaurant seats, study finds
September 4, 2012:
A new study, published in the Economic Journal, shows that crowd-sourced online review websites play an important role in consumer decisions. An analysis of 328 restaurant reviews on Yelp found that an increase of a half-star in ratings corresponded to a 19 percent greater likelihood of selling out during peak dining times.
Where are the ‘job creators’? A Labor Day conversation
August 30, 2012:
Where you live has a lot to do with whether you’re employed, and how, says Enrico Moretti, author of The New Geography of Jobs. The UC Berkeley economist shares insights on employment, salaries, tax cuts and growing inequalities based on location.
California’s temporary workers face increased likelihood of poverty, says new study
August 28, 2012:
California’s temporary workers are twice as likely as other employees in the state to live in poverty, receive food stamps and be on Medicaid, according to a new report from UC Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education.
Media Advisory: Berkeley experts to assess court rulings on Affordable Care Act
June 27, 2012:
UC Berkeley experts will review the high court’s ACA actions in a special panel on Monday.
6.3 million Californians lack access to workplace retirement plan, Labor Center research finds
June 7, 2012:
Some 6.3 million Californians lack access to an employer-sponsored retirement plan, according to a new study released today by UC Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education.
Freecycling has viral effect on community spirit and generosity, study shows
May 29, 2012:
Reinforcing that the best things in life are free, a new UC Berkeley study shows that online freebie-exchange communities such as “Freecycle” and “Couchsurfing” foster greater team spirit among their members than do cash-for-goods websites.
From the factory to the academy, tracking ‘real America’
May 4, 2012:
Even for a labor economist, Sylvia Allegretto, a co-founder of UC Berkeley’s Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics, took a distinctly working-class route to a career in academia.
Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than are non-believers
April 30, 2012:
“Love thy neighbor” is preached from many a pulpit. But new research from UC Berkeley suggests the devoutly religious are less motivated by compassion when helping a stranger than are atheists, agnostics and less religious people.
Berkeley researchers find big benefits for students, taxpayers and state from funding of higher education
April 24, 2012:
The State of California needs to consider the whopping return on investments for higher education as it tries to balance its budget, UC Berkeley researchers say in new study, “California’s Economic Payoff: Investing in College Access and Completion.”
UC Berkeley class prepares disabled students for competitive job market
April 23, 2012:
If it’s a tough job market out there for able-bodied college graduates, imagine how employment prospects might look to students with cerebral palsy or a muscular or neurodegenerative disease. That’s why a dozen UC Berkeley students are enrolled in “Professional Development and Disability,” a unique course that is teaching them how to market their disabilities as strengths.
UC Berkeley economists contribute to just-released “Occupy Handbook”
April 17, 2012:
UC Berkeley economists contribute to the literature about and understanding of the Occupy movement,
UC Berkeley job fair to reflect upbeat hiring market for college grads
April 16, 2012:
This week’s pre-graduation job fair at UC Berkeley promises to be upbeat, with scores of recruiters coming to the campus, and a new national survey showing that employers expect to hire 10 percent more college graduates this year than they did in 2011.
With nods to Occupy Wall Street, economic inequality teach-in generates light, not heat
April 5, 2012:
A UC Berkeley teach-in on economic inequality Wednesday quietly laid bare the intellectual underpinnings of the nationwide push to narrow America’s wealth gap.
Upper class more likely to be scofflaws due to greed, study finds
February 27, 2012:
The upper class has a higher propensity for cheating, driving illegally and endorsing unethical behavior in the workplace, believing – as did Gordon Gekko in the movie “Wall Street” – that “greed is good,” according to a new UC Berkeley study.
I School dean talks tech innovation on Canadian radio
February 3, 2012:
AnnaLee Saxenian, dean of the School of Information and author of The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy, talks about what happened in Silicon Valley to make it the world’s tech innovation center, and how the future of growth and innovation will depend on the new Argonauts — experts who move information fluidly between creative hubs all over the world.
Media Advisory: Public policy professor, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich to deliver Savio Memorial Lecture on class warfare
November 8, 2011:
he University of California, Berkeley’s 15th annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Robert Reich, former U.S. labor secretary and professor of public policy at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, on the topic of class warfare.
Big Ideas for Jobs Creation: A Q&A with Karen Chapple
November 7, 2011:
Thirteen big ideas for programs and policies to create badly needed jobs in the United States were unveiled Monday at a Washington, D.C., briefing.
