EUREKA!

[ New Findings and Research ]

Eating Well

Too much is still too much.

in a three-year study of grocery purchases, Tuck marketing professor Kusum Ailawadi found that some households that cut back on junk food still eat too much. “they’re putting more of the healthy foods in their mouths,” she says. “they focus on quality and not on quantity. Once they categorize it as healthy they don’t focus on how much of it they’re eating.”

Not So Hot

Forest lizard may not be in peril.

tropical forest lizards thought vulnerable to extinction because of global warming may be okay, according to Michael Logan, a biology Ph.D. candidate at the College. His research contradicts earlier findings that were based on global-scale temperatures. Logan examined ground temperatures in the Bay Islands of Honduras and conducted field tests on four species of lizards. “none appears to be on the brink of extinction,” he says.

House Work

Buy a home, increase unemployment?

A high rate of home ownership negatively impacts the labor market, according to economics prof David Blanchflower. After crunching the numbers, he found that a doubling in the rate of home ownership in any U.S. state was followed over the long term by more than a doubling of that state’s unemployment rate. Areas of high home ownership experience lagging problems, including longer commute times and fewer new businesses.