Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture
2012 metastudy in the journal Nature on the differences in crop yields between organic farming and conventional industrialized agriculture.
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Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
2012 metastudy in Nature that examines papers on the loss of biodiversity within ecosystems and the implications for human civilization.
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Economic inequality is linked to biased self-perception
2011 report in Psychological Science on individual self-enhancement bias and societal levels of income inequality.
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Social networks and the dynamics of labour market outcomes: Evidence from refugees
2012 paper from Northwestern University in the Review of Economic Studies on the value of social networks for refugee job seekers in the United States.
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Evaluating online labor markets for experimental research: Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk
2012 study by MIT, Yale and the University of California, Berkeley, in Political Analysis on social science research participants on the Internet.
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Pew Research: Partisan polarization surges in Bush, Obama years
2012 study by the Pew Research Center on shifts in American political values, including politics, business, immigration and religion, from 1987-2012.
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Juvenile arrest and collateral educational damage in the transition to adulthood
2012 study from the University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University on the impact of an arrest on a teen’s educational trajectory.
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Do colleges and universities increase their region’s human capital?
2011 study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published in the Journal of Economic Geography on the dynamics between higher education and local economies.
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Mortgage distress: How U.S. families are handling savings, mortgages and other debts
2012 report from the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research on how U.S. homeowners fared economically between 2009 and 2001.
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Uninsured veterans and family members: Who are they and where do they live?
2012 report by the Urban Institute and the Robert John Wood Johnson Foundation on the Affordable Care Act and uninsured veterans.
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