Zipporah Osei
Reporter, Social Sciences and Business & Economics
Zipporah Osei, based in Brooklyn, New York, covers Business & Economics and Social Sciences for The Academic Times. Prior to that, she worked as a research reporter at ProPublica and interned at The Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Education and Chalkbeat. She is the founder of the First Gen newsletter, which covers the first-generation college student experience. Zipporah has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northeastern University.
The first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic saw large decreases in the mean and median rent prices in the largest metropolitan cities in the United States, but those decreases were driven almost entirely by price reductions in Black, Latino and diverse neighborhoods, according to new research on how the pandemic impacted rental markets.
The number of married couples in the United States and the United Kingdom with only one working adult has increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study, but the divide is being driven more by earning potential than by gender.
Food system inequality between nations has generally declined since 1970, but greater access to food and nutrients presents new health problems such as hypertension and diabetes in more countries, according to new research published in Nature Food.
Animal domestication in Central Asia goes back at least 8,000 years — nearly three millennia earlier than previously thought — according to new research published today, making the area one of the oldest continuously inhabited pastoral regions in the world.
Most women's economic well-being is negatively affected after getting divorced, but women with children are more likely to financially recuperate than childless women, according to new research that took the first comprehensive look at how family size affects the economic gaps created by divorce.
A new discovery of archaeological material at a site in southern Africa 600 km inland from the coast is challenging prior beliefs that the complex behaviors of Homo sapiens started in coastal environments, according to research published Wednesday in Nature.
A new spatial mapping system of global deforestation found that a handful of countries are responsible for massive amounts of deforestation outside their borders despite domestic policies aimed at protecting their own forests.
Philanthropy among the elite class in the United States and the United Kingdom does more to create goodwill for the super-wealthy than to alleviate social ills for the poor, according to a new meta-analysis.
Most high school students are more likely to enroll in college themselves when they have college-bound friends, but that positive influence may be lost on young Black and Latino males, according to new research from Cornell University.
Innovation from new research and patents may be slowed for seven years because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study that draws on data from previous pandemics over the past century.