Commodity prices and conflict: How price shocks affect civil unrest
Review of a 2013 paper in The Review of Economic Studies and other studies that shed light on the connection between food insecurity and violent conflict.
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Suicide among adults aged 35-64 years: United States, 1999-2010
2013 report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noting that the suicide rate for middle-aged Americans has been increasing.
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Sex differences in mathematics and reading achievement
2013 study by University of Leeds and University of Missouri on gender differences in math and reading achievement.
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People power or a one-shot deal? A dynamic model of protest
2013 study from Princeton and NYU on the nature of political revolutions and the possibility that upheaval can be a singular event, unlikely to be followed by more.
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Understanding the Chechen conflict: Research and reading list
2013 review of Chechnya-related scholarship and the conflict and political grievances there that continue to reverberate.
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Unintended pregnancy and taxpayer spending
2011 study in Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health calculating that unintended pregnancies cost taxpayers as much as $12.6 billion a year.
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Research chat: Rajiv Chandrasekaran on conflict-zone and military reporting
2013 interview with Washington Post foreign correspondent and associate editor Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author of Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan.
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The hard truth about telecommuting
2012 study from the University of Iowa and the University of Texas at Austin showing the complexity of this evolving work practice and the potential downsides.
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Combat-incurred limb loss: A comparison of Afghanistan and Iraq to the Vietnam war
2012 study from the University of Michigan and University of Washington in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery on the quality of life of amputees.
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Suicide among patients treated by the Veterans Health Administration
2012 study in the American Journal of Public Health comparing suicide rates among veterans to those among the general public.
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