Research roundups, tip sheets, articles and explainers related to the topic of economics and economic equality
This research-based explainer looks at how El Niño stunts global and regional economic growth and what climatologists know about how climate change affects El Niño patterns.
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In the final installment of our three-part series, we look at what the research says about rural development programs in the farm bill, which expires in late September.
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In this second of our three-part series, we look at environmental conservation programs that get billions of dollars in funding in the farm bill, which expires in late September.
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To save money and help recruit teachers, many U.S. schools are taking Mondays or Fridays off. We look at research on how the four-day school week affects student test scores, attendance and behavior.
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Research in The Review of Black Political Economy suggests analyses on the racial wage gap don’t capture the whole economic story when they fail to account for prisoners and people with long unemployment spells.
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In this first of a three-part series, we look at recent research on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a major component of the farm bill coming up for renewal in September.
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From a booming bicycle industry in Little Rock, Arkansas to a central Minnesota restaurant that bought an apartment building for its employees to live in, our semi-regular rundown of the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book is full of fresh story ideas.
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Some journalists might not realize that many academic journals let them bypass their paywalls. We show you which ones and how to set up free accounts.
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An economist and a statistician help us explain the right and wrong ways to use ‘per capita’ to describe data related to economics, public health and other news topics.
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Experiments in two well-known New York City neighborhoods use video to explore whether pedestrians physically avoid young Black men more than young white men.
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