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.
Economics
Research roundups, tip sheets, articles and explainers related to the topic of economics and economic equality
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Self-employment and local economic performance: Evidence from U.S. counties
2011 study in the journal Papers in Regional Science on the benefits of having more self-employed people and small businesses in a region.
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Chasing the American dream: Recent college graduates and the Great Recession
2012 report from the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers on patterns of employment, wages and difficulties in job-finding among recent graduates.
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Subsidized housing, public housing and adolescent violence and substance use
2012 study by Indiana University-Purdue University published in Youth & Society on public housing, violence and drug use among adolescents.
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Impact of the economic crisis in international migration
2011 UCLA study published in Work, Employment and Society on the nature of migration trends across the world during the global recession.
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Where have all the U.S. startups and young firms gone?
2012 report by researchers from the University of Maryland and the U.S. Census Bureau on the relative decline in startups and “young” firms across the United States.
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U.S. National Science Board: Science and engineering indicators, 2012
2012 report from the National Science Foundation putting U.S. research and development and high tech industries in global context.
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The variability of returns on initial public offerings (IPOs)
2012 study from Penn State, Loyola Marymount and the University of Rochester on the difficulty of accurately pricing initial stock offerings.
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Roads to prosperity or bridges to nowhere? The impact of public infrastructure investment
2012 paper by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for the National Bureau of Economic Research on the economic effects of spending on highway projects.
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Commuting distance, cardiorespiratory fitness and metabolic risk
2012 study on the relationship between commuting distance and health, including BMI, cholesterol, blood pressure and cardiorespiratory fıtness.
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