USC Dornsife News

For National Voter Registration Day, two experts from USC Dornsife’s Center for the Political Future predict that young citizens will play a key role in this November’s vote. [2 min read]

Kyla Thomas of the Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) at USC Dornsife investigates how signaling certain personal likes and dislikes — particularly highbrow and lowbrow tastes — affects how people perceive us. [1 3/4 min read]

The latest USC Dornsife/LA Times poll, overseen by the new Center for the Political Future at USC Dornsife, also finds that Democrats have an edge over Republicans in a generic U.S. House matchup in the runup to the midterm elections, and that Democrats say news coverage of President Trump motivates them to vote. [6 1/2 min read]

Genoeconomist Daniel Benjamin of USC Dornsife says that a combination of roughly 1,000 genetic variants across the genome can predict the length of a person’s formal education to a degree comparable with the usual demographic predictors.

International study led by USC Dornsife’s Arie Kapteyn shows that people, regardless of their age and where they live, poorly guess how physically active they actually are.

The gap in net worth between Americans at either end of the economic spectrum is reaching record proportions. A free, day-long conference, open to the public and hosted by USC Dornsife’s Center for Economic and Social Research, will address the issue.

The latest USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll offers great news for U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and good news for California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, but potential dread for the state’s GOP.

Most children who are obese before they start kindergarten remain so through adolescence, which raises the risk of health problems in adulthood, study finds.

Promising results from a pilot study led by Anna Saavedra of the Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) and supported by the George Lucas Educational Foundation could herald a shift in traditional approaches to education.