Health, Education & Social Policy
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If you Give a Kid a Preschool, She’ll Probably Want to Learn: Insights into Head Start
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New research based on the Head Start Impact Study helps identify the program characteristics that lead to the greatest student gains.
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Sheltered Without Support: Where Do Most Homeless Families End Up?
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Mothers of families struggling with homelessness most frequently seek out two main sources of help: doubling up by moving in with friends and family and emergency shelter stays. Both of these options offer an immediate reprieve but may have negative long-term effects.
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Buckling Down By Lightening Up: How Humor Can Boost Students’ Persistence
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In a randomized experiment, students who watched a funny video persisted with a mentally taxing task twice as long as other students.
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Staying Positive: How Middle Schoolers’ Attitudes About Themselves Influence Academic and Emotional Outcomes
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For many students, their time spent in middle school is characterized by upheaval and vulnerability. New data, however, suggests that students’ perception of their own intelligence and well-being has a significant impact on their success.
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Working for free: A look into the informal elder care sector
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A new study uses data from the American Time Use Survey to estimate the shockingly high hidden cost of unpaid elder care in the US.
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When One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Differing Outcomes for Foster Children in Group Homes
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A study investigates how certain children in the foster care system may respond negatively to placements in group homes.
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Live Fast, Die Young, Defend Your Status: The Code of Retaliation
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A harsh childhood can lead to a life strategy that condones violence in response to status threats. An economic game shows that such a worldview is linked to heightened envy in unfair situations.
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Too Much or Not Enough? Rethinking School Breakfast Programs
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Research suggests that school breakfast programs may be falling short of the goal to provide universal access to a nutritional morning meal and may be contributing to unhealthy amounts of food intake.
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The Price of Non-Admission: Costs of Not Attending College
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New research suggests that college education is beneficial for marginal students, with strong effects on future earnings, particularly for men and high school students who received free lunch.
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It Takes a Village: The Effects of Familial Financial Support on Children Raised by Single Mothers
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New research shows that support from fathers, family, and friends plays a crucial role in relieving the economic burden of low-income, single mothers, resulting in benefits for the behavioral and developmental outcomes of their children.
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Beyond the Classroom: How outreach and structure can improve college outcomes
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New research shows that cost-effective summer counseling interventions that help students through the enrollment process significantly boosted college enrollment and persistence rates.