Do high food prices increase food insecurity in the United States?
2013 study in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy on how higher local food prices correlate with higher food insecurity among the poor.
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2013 study in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy on how higher local food prices correlate with higher food insecurity among the poor.
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2013 study by the University of Pittsburgh published in the American Journal of Public Health on the impact of paid sick days on influenza transmission.
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2013 review of academic scholarship and government research on women, work and work/life balance.
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2013 paper from U.T. Austin and Cornell University in Social Forces comparing the retention of women working in STEM-related fields to those in non-STEM work.
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2013 working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research on the relationship between family planning access and long-term economic outcomes.
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2012 study published in the journal Sociology on the relationship between occupational segregation by gender and the extent of gender inequality.
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2011 study in the American Journal of Criminal Justice comparing gun availability and homicide rates across nations.
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2013 study for the National Bureau of Economic Research on the relationship between corporate investment and disinvestment rates and CEO tenure in the United States.
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September 2013 review of new studies on news, social media and Internet-related behavior and patterns.
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2013 selection of recent research on the possibility of a U.S. default on its debt and Congressional negotiations over raising the debt ceiling.
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