At 716 per 100,000 people (2013 figures), the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The number of Americans behind bars is ...
As reported in a recent article in The Atlantic , up until the early 1990s it was possible for U.S. college students to work their way throu...
A new article, " The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking ," published in the journal...
As reported in The Guardian , the Washington-based organization Commonwealth Fund has issued a new report analyzing the performance of healt...
Happiness and its determinants have recently peaked the interest of researchers in fields as diverse as psychology, sociology, economy, and ...
In their 2013 article published in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers , Wendy Cho (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champ...
Kim Parker of the Pew Research Center wrote a new feature about today's fathers, using data from recent Pew Research Center reports. ...
A very detailed New York Times interactive feature charts, industry by industry, how the recession has reshaped the US job market and shows...
As we count down to the 2014 World Cup kickoff, football fans debate the chances of their favorite teams. Would they agree with sports stat...
In a new article published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians , Roland Sturm (RAND Corporation) and Ruopeng An (University of Illinois a...
ICPSR is pleased to announce the winners of our 2014 Research Paper Competitions . Lorraine Blatt (B.A., Psychology) of the Grinnell Col...
The death penalty is once again being debated as drug shortages and legal challenges are prompting lawmakers in several death penalty states...
A recent Pew Research Center data roundup presents interesting facts about the new cohort of college graduates. Using data from the Nation...
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