New Report Suggests Reversal In Decades-Long Trend of Decentralization

New Report Suggests Reversal In Decades-Long Trend of Decentralization

A new report by City Observatory , a think tank devoted to data-driven analysis of cities and the policies that shape them, shows that popul...

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Top Source of Stress For Americans? Money

Top Source of Stress For Americans? Money

The American Psychological Association recently released the results of the latest annual Stress in America survey .  The APA has been cond...

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Even Unemployed, Men Do Less Housework Than Women

Even Unemployed, Men Do Less Housework Than Women

Using data from the American Time Use Survey (a survey that measures the amount of time people spend doing various activities, such as work,...

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Students From High-Income Families Attain College Degrees At Far Higher Rates Than Students From Low-Income Families

Students From High-Income Families Attain College Degrees At Far Higher Rates Than Students From Low-Income Families

The social and economic benefits of a college degree are well-known.  At the individual level, people with college degrees have higher lifet...

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Diminishing Returns: Incarcerating More People Brings Increasingly Smaller Crime Reduction Benefits

Diminishing Returns: Incarcerating More People Brings Increasingly Smaller Crime Reduction Benefits

The US prison population has grown sharply over the last 40 years, reaching 496 prisoners for every 100,000 people, up from 150 in 1972.  Al...

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The Growth of Master's Degrees

The Growth of Master's Degrees

A new Vox article  reports on the growth of Master's degrees in the U.S. where about eight percent of the population holds a Master'...

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The Rise of the Megacity

The Rise of the Megacity

This interactive world map of urbanization trends created by The Economist tracks global city population shifts and forecasts from 1950 unt...

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Gendered Language in Teacher Reviews

Gendered Language in Teacher Reviews

The New York Times' The Upshot recently reported on a new interactive created by Benjamin Schmidt , a Northeastern University history p...

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Moral Evaluations Of Athletes: Why Are We Harsher On Lance Armstrong Than Tiger Woods?

Moral Evaluations Of Athletes: Why Are We Harsher On Lance Armstrong Than Tiger Woods?

A s eries of studies by University of Michigan's Joon Sung Lee and Dae Hee Kwak recently published in the Journal of Business Ethics ex...

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Gun Ownership and Suicide

Gun Ownership and Suicide

A recent i nteractive by The Economist used 2002 data on the prevalence of household firearms from the Centers for Disease Control to show ...

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