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These days, even grocery chains are data companies as much as they are food retailers. But as non-tech firms become more data-driven, are they using that data correctly? Professor Najib Mozahem is a Professor of Information Systems at McGill University and a data scientist at Air Canada. He explains how data works – and the many ways it can lie to you and hurt your decision-making. He joins the McGill Delve podcast.
As governments around the world face pressure to reduce public spending, researchers are looking into how welfare cuts affect low-income households' employment, personal finances, and consumption. Jim Goldman, Assistant Professor of Finance at McGill University, and Manuel Adelino, Professor of Finance at Duke University, show that these cuts can trigger a self-reinforcing cycle for financially fragile households. The mechanism behind it has implications well beyond this specific reform.
