Claiming health: Front-of-package labeling of children’s food
2011 report by the Prevention Institute examining the nutritional qualities of 58 children’s products with front-of-the-package labeling.
Research roundups, tip sheets, articles and explainers related to the topic of economics and economic equality
2011 report by the Prevention Institute examining the nutritional qualities of 58 children’s products with front-of-the-package labeling.
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2011 analysis by researchers from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Wellesley College on the Commonwealth’s insurance-requirement law.
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2010 report from the Education Trust on the relative characteristics of the for-profit school sector, including tuition costs, average student loan amounts and default rates, and graduation rates.
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2010 study published in the Harvard Business Review potential benefits of well-designed wellness programs to both companies and workers.
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2008 paper by researchers from Harvard, MIT and Northwestern University on the potential effect of climate change on nations’ economic growth.
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2010 study by researchers from the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt on the number of words that 12- to 18-month-olds picked up from a best-selling instructional DVD for children.
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2010 metastudy by researchers from the University of Queensland on the findings from 35 different studies of speed cameras.
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2010 study from the Transit Cooperative Research Program on recent streetcar systems and their impact on development and land-use patterns.
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2010 study by Harvard, Princeton, the University of Adelaide, and the National University of Singapore on the environmental impact of a large set of countries.
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2006 Princeton University study on the relationship between growing income inequality and increasing political divisions in the United States.
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