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Results: 45 Studies on Society (of 399 total)

Culture: Pew Research: Gun Rights, Abortion, Gay Marriage Views Over Time

Health: Summer Temperature Variability and Long-Term Survival Among Elderly People with Chronic Disease

Culture: Cross-Pressures of Religion and Contact with Gays and Lesbians, and Their Impact on Same-Sex Marriage Opinion

Culture: Same-sex marriage and children’s well-being: Research roundup

Health: Intimate Partner Violence and Urban Female Adolescents

Health: Opiate Use by U.S. Mothers and Increases in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

Health: More than 7 Million Children Live with a Parent with Alcohol Problems

Education: Early 2000s: A Period of Declining Teen Summer Employment Rates

Health: Demand for Health Insurance among Uninsured Americans: Results of a Survey Experiment and Implications for Policy

Health: Prenatal Exposure to Pesticides Linked to Gestational Age and Birthweight

Education: Student Loans: Do College Students Borrow Too Much — or Not Enough?

Media, Internet: Congressional-Executive Commission on China Annual Report 2011

Digital Communication: Structural Diversity in Social Contagion: Studying Facebook

Culture: Politicization of Science in the Public Sphere: A Study of Public Trust in the United States, 1974 to 2010

Health: 2012 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report

Digital Communication: Competition Among Memes in a World with Limited Attention

Health: School and Residential Neighborhood Food Environment and Diet Among California Youth

Health: Market Structure, Competition from Assisted Living Facilities and Quality in the Nursing Home Industry

Education: Creating “No Excuses” (Traditional) Public Schools: Preliminary Evidence from an Experiment in Houston

Health: Health Care as a “Market Good”? Appendicitis as a Case Study

Media, Internet: Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?

Labor: Pew Research: Gender Reversal on Career Aspirations

Labor: The Promise and Perils of Private Voluntary Regulation: Labor Standards and Work Organization in Two Mexican Garment Factories

Culture: The Misperception of Sexual Interest

Digital Communication: Exploring Russian Cyberspace: Digitally Mediated Collective Action and the Networked Public Sphere

Culture: Why Is the Teen Birth Rate in the United States so High and Why Does It Matter?

Health: Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders: CDC 2012 Report

Digital Communication: Internet Use and Democratic Demands: A Multinational, Multilevel Model of Internet Use and Citizen Attitudes about Democracy

Labor: The Impact of Race and Interpersonal Dominance on Perceptions of Female Leaders

Health: Individual, Family and Neighborhood Characteristics and Children’s Food Insecurity

Health: Prenatal Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Exposure and Child Behavior at Age 6-7

Digital Communication: The Trend of Class, Race and Ethnicity in Social Media Inequality

Health: Endocrine Disruptors and Asthma-Associated Chemicals in Consumer Products

Health: Internet Addiction and Personality in First-Person-Shooter Video Gamers

Health: Economic Burdens of Health Inequalities in the United States

Labor: The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

Education: Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion

Health: Potential Exposure to Anti-Drug Advertising and Drug-Related Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviors Among United States Youth, 1995–2006

Culture: Does March Madness Lead to Irrational Exuberance in the NBA Draft?

Health: Balancing Work and Family After Childbirth: A Longitudinal Analysis

Digital Communication: State of the News Media 2012

Media, Internet: A Negativity Gap? Voter Gender, Attack Politics and Participation in American Elections

Education: Explaining Charter School Effectiveness

Digital Communication: Effects of the Internet on politics: Research roundup

Digital Communication: The Arab Spring and the Internet: Research roundup

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