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Does the Functional Form of the Association Between Education and Mortality Differ by U.S. Region?

Jennifer Karas Montez & Isaac Sasson
May 10, 2018

See related: Education, Longevity, United States

Promoting natural resource conflict management in an illiberal setting: Experiences from Central Darfur, Sudan

Peter Castro
May 7, 2018

See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan)

The Differential Incidence and Severity of Food Insecurity by Racial, Ethnic, and Immigrant Groups over the Great Recession in the United States

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Hugo B. Jales, Judith Liu & Norbert L. Wilson
April 30, 2018

See related: Food Security

Contextual Fact-Checking: A New Approach to Correcting Misperceptions and Maintaining Trust

Emily Thorson
April 27, 2018

The Vertical City: Rent Gradient, Spatial Structure, and Agglomeration Economies

Crocker H. Liu, Stuart S. Rosenthal & William C. Strange
April 26, 2018

Assessing Judicial Empowerment

Thomas M. Keck
April 17, 2018

See related: Law

Encouraging Innovation that Protects Environmental Systems: Five Policy Proposals

Cameron Hepburn, Jacquelyn Pless & David Popp
April 6, 2018

Gender and Water in a Changing Climate: Challenges and Opportunities

Farhana Sultana
April 3, 2018

See related: Natural Resources

An estimator for discrete-choice models with spatial lag dependence using large samples, with an application to land-use conversions

Carmen E. Carrión-Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes & Ledia Guci
March 30, 2018

Factors Associated With County-Level Differences in U.S. Drug-Related Mortality Rates

Shannon M. Monnat
March 27, 2018

Factors Associated with County-Level Differences in U.S. Drug-Related Mortality Rates

Shannon M. Monnat
March 25, 2018

See related: Addiction, Longevity

Linked Religious Lives Across Generational Time in Family Lineages: Grandparents as Agents of Transmission

Merril Silverstein & Vern L. Bengtson
March 19, 2018

The Science of Fake News

David Lazer, Matthew Baum, Yochai Benkler, Adam Berinsky, Kelly Greenhill, Filippo Menczer, Miriam Metzger, Brendan Nyhan, Gordon Pennycook, David Rothschild, Michael Schudson, Steven Sloman, Cass Sunstein, Emily Thorson, Duncan Watts & Jonathan Zittrain
Emily Thorson, assistant professor of political science, and co-authors call for a coordinated investigation into the underlying social, psychological and technological forces behind fake news to counteract the phenomenon's negative influence on society.
March 9, 2018

See related: Civil Rights

A Targeted Minimum Benefit Plan: A New Proposal to Reduce Poverty Among Older Social Security Recipients A Targeted Minimum Benefit Plan

Pamela Herd, Melissa M. Favreault, Madonna Harrington Meyer & Timothy M. Smeeding
March 9, 2018

Emergency Food Assistance and the Great Recession

Colleen Heflin & Ashley Price
March 8, 2018

See related: Food Security

Measuring the Financial Shocks of Natural Disasters: A Panel Study of U.S. States

Qing Miao, Yilin Hou & Michael Abrigo
March 1, 2018

Measuring the Financial Shocks of Natural Disasters: A Panel Study of U.S. States

Qing Miao, Yilin Hou & Michael Abrigo
February 28, 2018

Federal Financial Aid and Family Formation: Examining the Social Security Student Benefit Program

Lincoln H. Groves & Leonard M. Lopoo
February 14, 2018

Stewarding Dairy Herd Health and Antibiotic Use on U.S. Amish and Plain Mennonite Farms

Rebecca L. Schewe & Caroline Brock
January 31, 2018

See related: Agriculture, Energy, Religion, Sustainability

Who are Asian Americans?

Prema Kurien
January 25, 2018

See related: South Asia

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