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Real Estate: What Is a Tree Worth? Green-City Strategies, Signaling and Housing Prices

Jobs: Workplace Violence in America: Frequency and Effects

Jobs: The Unemployed and Job Openings: A Data Primer

Business: The Vanishing Middle: Job Polarization and Workers’ Response to the Decline in Middle-Skill Jobs

Business: The state of Internet privacy in 2013: Research roundup

Inequality: Reading list on income inequality: A Storify presentation of data and findings

Inequality: Investing in Children: Changes in Parental Spending on Children

Business: Privacy Protection Strategies on Facebook

Jobs: Sex Differences in Mathematics and Reading Achievement Are Inversely Related

Inequality: “Resource curse,” poverty and Appalachia; lessons in research, data and politics

Business: Is There an Asian Model of Technological Emergence?

Inequality: Federal Student Loan Debt Burden of Noncompleters: Statistics in Brief

Business: What is Big Data? Research roundup, reading list

Business: Social media in the workplace: Research roundup

Banks: Wealth Effects Revisited, 1975-2012

Jobs: When You Just Cannot Get Away: Technology and Work-Life Spillover

Jobs: College Student Engagement and Early Career Earnings: Differences by Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Academic Preparation

Inequality: Improving Employment and Earnings for TANF Recipients

Inequality: Happiness Among the Garbage: Differences in Overall Happiness among Trash Pickers in León (Nicaragua)

Inequality: How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People out of Poverty?

Jobs: Double Majors: Influences, Identities and Impacts

Jobs: Veterans, jobs, wages and unemployment issues: Research roundup

Business: Does Supervisor Gender Matter? Examining the Case of Teacher Turnover

Business: State of the News Media 2013: Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism

Inequality: Getting on the Right Track: Improving Low-Income and Minority Access to Mortgage Credit after the Housing Bust

Jobs: The Hard Truth About Telecommuting

Inequality: University Based Service Learning: Relating Mentor Experiences to Issues of Poverty

Inequality: Women, work and work/life balance: Research roundup

Real Estate: Property Values, Parks, and Crime: A Hedonic Analysis in Baltimore, MD

Business: Wind energy in the United States and globally: Research roundup

Inequality: Affirmative action in university admissions: Research roundup

Business: Budget Sequestration: Review of Job Loss Estimates

Inequality: Effects of raising the minimum wage: Research review and key lessons

Inequality: Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Stopped? Zoning and Inequality

Jobs: Effects of Work on Leadership Development Among First-Year College Students

Business: Spreading the Word: Geography, Policy and Knowledge Spillovers

Inequality: Polarization of Job Opportunities in the U.S. Labor Market

Banks: Tax Havens: Exploring “Treasure Islands”

Jobs: How Much Protection Does a College Degree Afford?

Inequality: What Do We Really Know About Racial Inequality? Labor Markets, Politics, and the Historical Basis of Black Economic Fortunes

Business: The End of Farm Labor Abundance

Jobs: U.S. residents, how they commute and what it costs: Research roundup

Jobs: Gender Differences in the Salaries of Physician Researchers

Banks: Microfinance and poverty alleviation in sub-Saharan Africa: Research roundup

Business: Economic Impact of Local Immigration Regulation: An Empirical Analysis

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