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A Better Old Age: How Income Can Improve Later-Life Mental Health
Researchers show that an increase in Social Security income can significantly improve the elderly’s cognitive functions. More »
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Stop, Look, and Listen: A Behavioral Approach to Reducing Teen Violence
A recent study finds that cost-effective behavioral intervention programs reduce crime rates by teaching teens to slow down and reflect before acting. More »
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Testing the Impact of Non-cognitive Skills on Children’s Future Success
By studying the impact of the introduction of a universal child care program in Quebec, Baker et al. argue that shocks to the development of children’s non-cognitive skills lead to worse health, higher crime rates, and lower life satisfaction in the long run. ... More »
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ABC, It’s as Easy as 1 2 3: Parents as Early Teachers
New research shows that parental incentives for child development can yield large gains in both cognitive and non-cognitive domains for young children. More »
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Economic downturns: Bad for your wallet, good for your health?
A recent study confirms the finding that mortality rates decrease during recessions and that severe recessions produce even larger reductions in mortality rates. More »
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If You Build It, They Won’t Come: Why Eliminating Food Deserts Won’t Close the Nutrition Gap
A recent study finds that nutritional differences across socioeconomic groups are not well explained by access to healthy foods. More »
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Looking at Effects of Tennessee Medicaid Contraction on Adult Hospitalizations
A new quasi-experimental study sheds light on the mechanism through which Medicaid expansion translates into mortality reduction among newly insured populations. More »
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Social Skills: The New Employment Requirement?
Deming theorizes that, as manufacturing and other jobs have become more easily automated, the human ability to empathize and to be an effective “team player” has become more essential. More »
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Are electric cars more environmentally friendly? It depends where you drive them.
The boom in electric car sales, enhanced by federal subsidies, does not reflect the fact that, in some cases, powering those cars produces more emissions than powering conventional cars. The characteristics of each state and regional mode of electricity genera... More »
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Understanding ‘Home Bias’ in the Global Stock Market
Stock price data for a set of Chinese firms highlight the effects of information asymmetry created by differences in social trust between local and foreign investors. More »
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(Mis)measuring Economic Wealth
In a new paper, Joseph Stiglitz offers potential ideas about what may have contributed to a mismeasurement of wealth. More »
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Does Medicaid coverage change the prenatal health behaviors of pregnant women?
Research shows that expanded Medicaid coverage has counterintuitive impacts on prenatal health behaviors, hurting infants’ health. More »