New research by Professor Katherine Milkman and her colleagues suggests that knowing co-workers’ 401(k) balances won’t motivate you to save more.
September 20, 2015
-The Wall Street Journal
A Swarthmore professor discusses a surprising result from a paper by Professor Katherine Milkman and her colleagues on peer information and retirement savings.
September 14, 2015
-Misbehaving (blog)
Research by Professor Katherine Milkman shows that bundling your guilty pleasures with productive behaviors can help you maintain better habits.
August 19, 2015
-Fast Company
People often do what their neighbors do. A firm decided to get more people to sign up for retirement plans by telling employees how many of their coworkers had signed up. What happened next? Professor Katherine Milkman discusses her and her colleagues’ research on retirement savings in this episode of NPR Hidden Brain.
July 31, 2015
-National Public Radio (Hidden Brain)
Like many people, Katy Milkman knew she should be exercising more. And she had an idea about how to achieve this goal.
June 27, 2015
-Business Insider
Citing field research by Professor Katherine Milkman demonstrating how our intuitions can backfire, this article argues for the importance of experimentation by corporations to get policies right.
June 19, 2015
-The New York Times
People do not always make the best decisions at work. Nudge theory attempts to give people little cues and prompts to nudge them into making the best choices for all concerned in areas of public policy, marketing and communications.
May 31, 2015
-CBC News
Women whose moms worked outside the home are more likely to have jobs themselves, are more likely to hold supervisory responsibility at those jobs, and earn higher wages than women whose mothers stayed home full time, according to a new study. Previous research by the same author with Katherine Milkman of Wharton, found that female attorneys are more likely to rise through the ranks of a firm (and less likely to leave) when they have female partners as mentors and role models.
May 15, 2015
-Forbes
No matter what you do for a living, you're going to have some to-do list items you despise. Here's how to minimize the pain drawing on research from Professor Katherine Milkman and others.
May 7, 2015
-Inc.
This article describes how we can alter the environment in which decisions are made so that people are more likely to make choices that lead to good outcomes, referencing research by Professor Katherine Milkman, among others.
May 2015
-Harvard Business Review
In this episode, you’ll hear a Freakonomics Radio producer embark on a long and tortuous process to live his life like homo economicus. Is this even possible? If so, is it desirable? Even if it’s better for an individual, is it good for society? This episode draws on the wisdom of Professor Katherine Milkman, among others.
May 4, 2015
-Freakonomics
‘Temptation Bundling’ ties your ‘should be doing’ behaviors, like exercise, to your guilty-pleasures, such as binge watching Game of Thrones and is effective, says Professor Katherine Milkman.
April 19, 2015
-The Daily Beast
White male students are much more likely than female or minority students to hear back from faculty members when they send emails asking to meet to talk about the professors’ work and the students’ prospects for doctoral study, a study co-authored by Professor Katherine Milkman has found.
April 17, 2015
-The Chronicle of Higher Education
New study shows that faculty members overall preferred female candidates for assistant professorships in STEM fields. Another study by Katherine Milkman of the University of Pennsylvania, however, found that faculty members responded more frequently to white males seeking advice than other students.
April 13, 2015
-U.S. News & World Report
Katherine Milkman and her research are the focus of our latest Freakonomics Radio episode, “When Willpower Isn’t Enough.”
March 11, 2015
-Freakonomics Radio
Progressives like to believe they're enlightened, but they're no less vulnerable to their implicit biases. This article provides a look at just some of the ways our internalized biases add up to devastating consequences for lives, communities and society and covers research on bias in the Academy by Katherine Milkman, Modupe Akinola and Dolly Chugh.
March 4, 2015
-Salon
A massive analysis of hospital data by Hengchen Dai, Katherine Milkman, David Hoffman and Bradley Staats finds doctors and nurses are not following guidelines on washing their hands before and after they come into contact with patients.
March 2, 2015
-National Public Radio
If you’re like a lot of Americans, one of your New Year’s resolutions is to work out more. Economists have been searching for solutions to get into the gym more often and Katherine Milkman's research on temptation bundling suggests one such solution.
January 10, 2015
-The New York Times
It’s nearly the new year -- a time for resolving to eat less, exercise more, work harder, give more, get your financial situation in order, make a long-delayed life change. Why do we make such resolutions? Valuable evidence in this regard comes from Hengchen Dai, Katherine L. Milkman and Jason Riis of the Wharton School, who investigated what they call “the fresh start effect.”
December 30, 2014
-Bloomberg View
These days, unpacking the secrets to viral success has been the mission of researchers, media organizations and businesses alike. Stories that evoke intense emotions tend to drive popularity, according to a 2011 study by University of Pennsylvania professors.
December 17, 2014
-Forbes