Tagged: economics

Several Tippie faculty members have been mentioned in the news recently. Read more about them.

When we tell student success stories, what sometimes gets lost are the stories of all the people who made that success possible. Each one of us stands on the shoulders of those who have gone before us. Our families raised us, faculty mold us, alumni give back with their time, counsel, and hard-earned money. This is the story of a Tippie student from Burlington, Iowa, who through a solid curriculum, good advice, and hard work landed a job offer with Goldman Sachs following her graduation in May 2018. And it's also a story of some of the people whose shoulders she's standing on.  

Local governments across the country are turning to soda taxes in an effort to improve public health by discouraging consumption of the sugary drinks. In some cities, soda distributors are passing that cost along to consumers.

After three rounds of presentations, Tippie undergraduate students Matt Hubbell and Molly Monroe took fifth place in this year’s Eller Ethics Case Competition, an annual competition that challenges students to analyze a timely ethical case with real-world business relevance.

Professor of Economics John Solow comments on the economic development that doesn't happen with the creation of major attractions like sport stadiums or casinos.

Majora Carter delivers lecture on improving communities through sustainabie economic development.

Four decades after the initial popularization of ESOPs, we’re still only beginning to grasp the surprising extent of benefits the ownership format brings to employees, to companies, to selling entrepreneurs and to the economy at large. That’s newly affirmed by an important publication, in the form of a meta-analysis of more than 100 individual studies, on the impact of employee ownership. Authored by researchers at the University of Iowa, Villanova University and Indiana University, the new analysis captured data on more than 56,000 companies in the U.S. and abroad. And, when all the caveats and qualifications were in, found that a company with a significant employee ownership could expect to be 4% more profitable than others.

Wapello County, one of Iowa's poorest counties, is a step away from raising its minimum wage to $10.10 per hour by 2019. John Solow, a University of Iowa professor of economics, said he was surprised but not shocked that Wapello was the next Iowa county to move on the minimum wage.

As Philadelphia prepares for the January launch of its tax on sweetened beverages, a new study found low-income residents in Berkeley, Calif., home of the nation's first "soda tax," are not just consuming fewer sugary drinks. David Frisvold, a researcher from the University of Iowa who authored another study on Berkeley's tax, called the drop in consumption "promising" for public health, but noted that the interviews were done just a few months after the tax went into effect.

Tippie professor awarded grant to study the influencers of obesity.