Why do some companies pay higher rates than others, and what drives some to pay less in taxes? New research from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin sorts through 30 years of research on corporate tax avoidance to uncover the most significant factors. Hint: It’s not primarily manipulation or trickery.

“There’s all this noise about companies that don’t pay taxes or have very low tax rates, but if you dig in, a lot are driven by pretty benign factors,” says Andrew Belnap, assistant professor of accounting.

Hungarian and Vietnamese refugees who had arrived in Canada during two of the largest refugee movements in Canadian history report that strong social connections, supportive communities, and opportunities for belonging played a crucial role in helping them build successful lives, according to a new University of Toronto study.

Researchers at the University of Bath and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) believe they may have solved a long-standing evolutionary puzzle: why do humans remain stubbornly overconfident of their own abilities– even though it leads to costly mistakes?

The study, published in the Psychological Review, suggests that overconfidence, believing you are better than you actually are, persists not despite its costs - but because of them.

Researchers at the University of Bath and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) believe they may have solved a long-standing evolutionary puzzle: why do humans remain stubbornly overconfident of their own abilities– even though it leads to costly mistakes?

The study, published in the Psychological Review, suggests that overconfidence, believing you are better than you actually are, persists not despite its costs - but because of them.

Drs. Maria Glymour, Andrew Stokes, and Deborah Carr will lead the Boston University-Quantitative Population Science and Healthy Cognitive Aging Research Program (BU-SHARP) to foster national research collaboration on preventing and ameliorating the consequences of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in disproportionately affected populations.

The way women are supported to start and grow businesses needs updating for the digital age, according to researchers from the University of East London.

Businesses must prepare for the wave of consumer concern around microplastics pollution amid the global push for increased regulation, disclosure and change.