ATLANTA—Georgia State University’s Urban Studies Institute (USI) faculty has received $1 million from a $12 million National Science Foundation grant for a project to help cities prepare for climate change by co-developing the knowledge needed to promote resilient cities in a future that will look very different from today.
The Laura and John Arnold Foundation has awarded more than $300,000 in grant funding to the Fiscal Research Center and the Center for State and Local Finance to evaluate taxes in Georgia and nationally.
Who knew that calling for help could be as quick and convenient as ordering groceries? Annmarie Stockinger did, and she is building a business around her idea and making the world safer in the process.
ATLANTA–Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business has opened a fintech lab spanning data analytics, finance, real estate, and risk management and insurance, the first business school-based fintech lab in Georgia and among the first in the nation.
ATLANTA—Economists at Georgia State have discovered that family welfare — an economic measure of satisfaction, well-being or “happiness” — grew faster during the last two decades in U.S. households where wives earned higher wages than their husbands, outpacing its growth in families where the husband earned more or where husband and wife earned the same wages.
ATLANTA—Public infrastructure spending on maintenance projects has a greater impact on economic growth and equitable wealth distribution than spending on new investments, according to Georgia State University research.
ATLANTA–Homes closer to start-up charters schools in Georgia experience higher property values than those farther away, the greatest impact being for homes within priority attendance zones in Atlanta, according to a new study by Georgia State University’s Center for State and Local Finance.
ATLANTA—After a tax cut for the middle class by the end of 2017, expect gross domestic product (GDP) growth above 2 percent in 2018 and 2019, according to Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business.
Kynton Stephen’s long-time idea for a video game now has a major shot in the arm to become a player in Atlanta’s entertainment industry.
ATLANTA–The faculty of Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business are among most productive researchers in the world, according to new rankings from the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas.
