Digital Gems

Online short-term rental (STR) platforms such as Airbnb have grown spectacularly. We study the effects of regulation of these platforms on the housing…

How workers manufacturing products like aloe jelly and gardening gloves also became the influencers selling them.

Pinning stress on the coronavirus helped couples cope and remain resilient

Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.

A new report details global warming’s impact on Yellowstone Park, changes that have begun to fundamentally alter its famed ecosystem and threaten everything from its forests to Old Faithful geyser. Such troubling shifts are occurring in national parks across the U.S. West.

It only took a couple centuries.

A new study offers quantitative evidence linking psychological stress to graying hair in people.

After two white families claimed a grade calculation error, a Mississippi school added their children as co-valedictorian and co-salutatorian, reviving questions about race and equity.

How the pomp and pageantry of Victoria’s Secret worked for so long.

Roscoe Street stores face competition for workers, shortage of products even as shoppers come back after Covid-19 restrictions end.

A retailer with an old-school feel might win big from the home-buying frenzy should it draw younger first-time members.

Backed up ports and the Suez Canal fiasco are just surface problems. When things go wrong in this business, they go seriously wrong.

Title insurance costs more in Texas than in any other state. But what are home buyers actually getting?

Insiders are typically bullish on their own company.

Roy Patrick paid $16,500 for an old school building in the village of Carrega Ligure. Despite a few minor disasters, he says he's now living in "Nirvana."

Mike Rothschild, the author of the new book “The Storm Is Upon Us,” is very concerned about QAnon’s “true believers.” The FBI agrees.

The hazardous poison hemlock is more visible in Ohio this year than ever before, experts say. The plant can be mistaken for Queen Anne's Lace.

Two scholars offer tips to help journalists report on Republican policymakers' push to ban critical race theory from U.S. public schools.

From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications increased 2.1 percent from one week earlier...

The Census Bureau reports New Home Sales in May were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 769 thousand. The previous three mont...

Competition is driving up industrial rents as retailers and logistics providers race to move goods closer to population centers, with some engaging in bidding wars for the most coveted sites.

Philipp Brandt, Stefan Timmermans Sociological Science June 17, 2021 10.15195/v8.a10 Abstract We propose an abductive logic of scientific inference for quantitative research.

Housing costs are shooting higher across America because there are too few.