Growth Empirics: A Bayesian Semiparametric Model with Random Coefficients for a Panel of OECD Countries
Why Monitoring your Media Consumption during COVID-19 is Important
This brief explains how too much media consumption (including the news) can affect your psychological and physiological wellbeing and provides strategies for monitoring your media consumption.
A Public Health Side Effect of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Screen Time-Related Eye Strain and Eye Fatigue
While technologies help us stay connected and enable us to get the resources we need, too much screen time can lead to eye strain, headaches, and neck and back pain.
Let Them Eat Lunch: The Impact of Universal Free Meals on Student Performance
Children need healthy and balanced meals to perform well in school. Universal Free Meal programs improve English and Math test scores and may even reduce obesity among middle school students. District and school leaders nationwide should consider adopting this program.
Employment Density and Agglomeration Economies in Tall Buildings
Making Meaning during Coronavirus
This brief discusses why meaning matters and how we might reflect on what we learned about ourselves from the COVID-19 pandemic to make more intentional meaning in our lives.
The Material Hardships of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States: Evidence from SIPP 1996-2008
Let Them Eat Lunch: The Impact of Universal Free Meals on Student Performance
See related: Education, Nutrition, State & Local
Grandmothers at Work during Coronavirus
COVID-19 is reshaping the lives of working grandmothers in the U.S. This brief draws on in-depth interviews and grandmothers’ stories to show how the coronavirus is redefining the lives of working grandmothers.
Does Proximity to Fast Food Cause Childhood Obesity? Evidence from Public Housing
See related: Housing
Federal Policy and the Rise in Disability Enrollment: Evidence from the VA's Disability Compensation Program
Risky Business: Recognizing the Flaws of Employer-Based Health Insurance during COVID-19
This brief discusses the implications of binding health insurance to employment during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
COVID-19 and Pneumonia: Increased Risk for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities during the Pandemic
This brief describes the implications of higher rates of pneumonia among individuals with IDD for increased risk of serious complications (including death) from COVID-19.
How to Help Children Develop Emotional Resilience during Coronavirus
Children are more vulnerable than adults to the emotional impact of traumatic events that disrupt their normal lives.
Potential Impacts of COVID-19 on Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disability: A Call for Accurate Cause of Death Reporting
Why might the COVID19 case fatality rate be higher among people with intellectual and development disabilities?
How Close is Close? The Spatial Reach of Agglomeration Economies
Low-Income Female Students and the Reversal of the Black-White Gap in High School Graduation
See related: Civil Rights, Education, Gender and Sex, Race & Ethnicity
Disability, food insecurity by nativity, citizenship, and duration
See related: Food Security
Geographic Disparities in COVID-19 Testing: An Urgent Call to Action
This research brief shows that testing rates are lower in states with the unhealthiest populations and worst health care access. Disparities in testing rates are troubling because delays in testing increase the risk of a surge in silent spread and severe COVID-19 cases in these states.
The Gig is Up: Supporting Non-Standard Workers Now and After Coronavirus
This issue brief discusses the specific COVID-19 related challenges of three gig work populations: rideshare and delivery drivers; hair stylists, barbers, and aestheticians; and sex workers.