A new startup business by UC Davis undergraduate students saves people time and money by making verified vaccine records accessible from anywhere in the world.
UC Davis economist Ina Simonovska, a leading expert on global finance and trade, is serving on the California Governor's Council of Economic Advisors, which makes policy recommendations across a range of pressing issues for the state.
Research shows that taxes, and what we decide they should be, directly affect our long-term social and economic health as a nation — for better or for worse. This in-depth article explains how income and corporate taxes in the U.S. affect economic growth, inequality and government spending.
UC Davis undergraduate students have been contributing to economics research on whether the Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, program, a U.S. safety net program, improves children’s test scores.
On January 27, a UC Davis Global Migration Center expert panel discussed Solito, the 2026 UC Davis Campus Community Book Project Selection, and how different research disciplines explore complex questions about immigration in the U.S.
The U.S. poverty rate puts a number on the share of households who struggle to make ends meet. The way we measure poverty dates back to the 1960s and provides a starting point for building an effective safety net that lifts people out of poverty.
As humanity reckons with a climate shaped by a legacy of burning fossil fuels, implementing solutions we already have requires large-scale coordination and overcoming social challenges that stunt action.
Cuts to the federal food assistance program SNAP were part of a $1.1 trillion overall cut in the federal budget bill signed into law this summer. The bill’s overall changes to SNAP, including a requirement that some states pay a share of benefit costs for the first time, could lead to more families going hungry.
Òscar Jordà has been named a Fellow of the Econometric Society for his innovative method of analyzing dynamic systems and his contributions to the field of economics across his career.
The sudden drop in the number of immigrants in the U.S. comes at a time when fertility rates among the native-born population are also falling. Research in economics suggests that these two trends could tip a precarious economy into decline.
