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Disease, Fertility, and Inequity | Letícia Marteleto

"For the past five years, Letícia Marteleto, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Sociology, has studied the effects of Zika and COVID on women in Brazil. So far, she’s found that the back-to-back crises have significantly affected family-planning decisions—and there’s much more to learn." -- OMNIA

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde Share How Machine Learning Is Transforming Economics, OMNIA

At a Data Driven Discovery Initiative event, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde shared how he and his team use machine learning to uncover how "dark ships" evade sanctions, illustrating how AI is transforming economic research, reports OMNIA.

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Chenyi Ma & Dennis Culhane Co-Authored Research on the Impact of Economic Stressors and Vaccination on Anxiety Levels During the Pandemic, Penn Today

Penn Today highlights Chenyi Ma and Dennis Culhane's research showing that economic hardship—not race alone—drives pandemic-related anxiety disparities across demographic groups.

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