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Do Nonprofit Responses to Social Movements Influence Public Perceptions and Willingness to Support? An Experimental Study

Minjung Kim, Allison R. Russell, Peter Frumkin

“Do Nonprofit Responses to Social Movements Influence Public Perceptions and Willingness to Support? An Experimental Study,” co-authored by Minjung Kim, assistant professor of public administration and international affairs, was published in Nonprofit Policy Forum.

April 4, 2025

New York Times Index Weights

This dataset provides information on the number of pages in the index and an estimate of the number of articles per page for each of the years included in our dataset.
April 2, 2025

Evidence-based practices and US state government civil servants: Current use, challenges, and pathways forward

Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, Leslie Thompson, Shuping Wang, Jules Marzec, Chengxin Xu, Weston Merrick, and Patrick Carter

This April 2025 Research to Practice Brief summarizes "Evidence-based practices and US state government civil servants: Current use, challenges, and pathways forward," co-authored by Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, Leslie Thompson, Shuping Wang, Jules Marzec, Chengxin Xu, Weston Merrick, and Patrick Carter in Public Administration Review.

April 2, 2025

New York Times Index

A systematic random sample, this dataset includes the first entry on every odd-numbered page of The New York Times Index
April 1, 2025

New York Times Front Page

Amber Boydstun
This dataset includes every front page story from The New York Times from 1996-2006.
April 1, 2025

Congressional Quarterly Almanac

This dataset contains information from all articles in the main chapters of the CQ Almanac.
April 1, 2025

Breast Cancer Diagnoses are Increasing among Racial and Ethnic Minority Women in the U.S.

Esther Oshaji
This data slice examines trends in breast cancer incidence rates among women by race and ethnicity in the U.S. from 2000 to 2021. The author finds that, while incidence rates remain highest among non-Hispanic White women, the largest increases in diagnoses have been among American Indian/Alaska Native Asian/Pacific Islander women.
March 25, 2025

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Nonstationary Heterogeneous Panels with Multiple Structural Changes

Badi H. Baltagi, Qu Feng, and Wei Wang
March 20, 2025

Older Women in the U.S. Were Lonelier Than Men During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Qiyu Deng
This data slice uses data from the 2020 Health and Retirement Study to examine gender and age differences in loneliness among older adults (50+) in the U.S. during the first year of the pandemic. 
March 18, 2025

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States’ COVID-19 Policy Contexts and Suicide Rates Among US Working-Age Adults

Emily E. Wiemers, Shannon M. Monnat, Douglas A. Wolf, Jennifer Karas Montez, Joshua Grove, Iliya Gutin, Elyse Grossman

“States’ COVID-19 Policy Contexts and Suicide Rates Among US Working-Age Adults,” co-authored by Maxwell professors Emily Wiemers, Shannon Monnat, Douglas Wolf, Jennifer Karas Montez and Iliya Gutin, along with Ph.D. student Joshua Grove, was published in Health Affairs Scholar.

March 17, 2025

How Does the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Impact Time Spent Assisting Adults?

Anna Wiersma Strauss
This brief summarizes findings from a study that examines the effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on unpaid caregiving for adults. The author finds that in response to more generous EITC benefits, younger recipients increase their time spent on paid work and maintain their time spent assisting adults, while older recipients maintain their time spent on paid work and increase their time spent assisting their parents.
March 11, 2025

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Who Tells Your Story? Women and Indigenous Peoples Advocacy at the UNFCCC

Takumi Shibaike, Bi Zhao

Takumi Shibaike, assistant professor of political science, has co-written “Who Tells Your Story? Women and Indigenous Peoples Advocacy at the UNFCCC” (Cambridge University Press, 2025), with co-author Bi Zhao, assistant professor of political science at Gonzaga University. 

March 7, 2025

The Intergenerational Transmission of Food Insecurity: Do Educational Compromises Make Things Worse?

Sarah Hamersma, Matthew Kim

“The Intergenerational Transmission of Food Insecurity: Do Educational Compromises Make Things Worse?” co-authored by Sarah Hamersma, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, was published in the Southern Economic Journal.

March 6, 2025

Gender and Social Class Dynamics in Intergenerational Financial Transfers Among Older Adults: National Trends Over Two Decades in Sweden

Isabelle von Saenger, Lena Dahlberg, Merril Silverstein, Johan Fritzell, Carin Lennartsson

“Gender and Social Class Dynamics in Intergenerational Financial Transfers Among Older Adults: National Trends Over Two Decades in Sweden,” co-authored by Professor and Chair of Sociology Merril Silverstein, was published in Ageing & Society.

March 6, 2025

The House that Fox News Built? Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News

Kevin Arceneaux, Johanna Dunaway, Martin Johnson, Ryan J. Vander Wielen

Johanna Dunaway, professor of political science, has co-written “The House that Fox News Built? Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News” (Cambridge University Press, 2025). The book scientifically examines the impact of partisan news on political elites. 

March 5, 2025

Younger Grandparents Provide Less Support to their Grandchildren Now than in the Past, but Support among Older Grandparents Has Remained Stable

Hyeonji Cho
This data slice uses data from the 2002-2022 Health and Retirement Study to examine the changes in grandparent support to grandchildren by age group in the U.S.
March 4, 2025

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The Shadow Gospel: How Anti-liberal Demonology Possessed U.S. Religion, Media, and Politics

Whitney Phillips, Mark Brockway

Mark Brockway, assistant teaching professor of political science, has co-authored “The Shadow Gospel: How Anti-liberal Demonology Possessed U.S. Religion, Media, and Politics” (The MIT Press, 2025). The book explores the American right, evangelical rhetoric and attacks on liberalism over the last eight decades.

February 26, 2025

Disability Measures Used in U.S. Federal Surveys Significantly Underreport Disability Status

Nastassia Vaitsiakhovich, Scott D. Landes, Jean P. Hall, and Bonnielin K. Swenor
U.S. federal surveys commonly use two question sets to measure disability: the American Community Survey (ACS-6) and the Washington Group Short Set (WG-SS). This data slice examines the percentage of disabled people captured by these two different survey sets. 
February 25, 2025

Self-Reported ADHD Diagnosis Status Among Working-Age Adults in the United States: Evidence From the 2023 National Wellbeing Survey

Andrew S. London, Shannon M. Monnat, Iliya Gutin

“Self-Reported ADHD Diagnosis Status Among Working-Age Adults in the United States: Evidence From the 2023 National Wellbeing Survey,” co-authored by Maxwell professors Andrew London, Shannon Monnat and Iliya Gutin, was published in the Journal of Attention Disorders.

February 20, 2025

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology

Shannon A. Novak

Shannon Novak, professor of anthropology, has contributed to “The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology” (Routledge, 2025). Her chapter, “Blood, mud, and mucking around with waste,” examines the materiality and logic of separation practices involved in the gendering of landscapes, bodies and subjectivities at a mother goddess (Mariamma) temple in the industrial outskirts of Toronto, Canada. 

February 19, 2025

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