Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture
2012 metastudy in the journal Nature on the differences in crop yields between organic farming and conventional industrialized agriculture.
Economics
Research roundups, tip sheets, articles and explainers related to the topic of economics and economic equality
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Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
2012 metastudy in Nature that examines papers on the loss of biodiversity within ecosystems and the implications for human civilization.
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Economic inequality is linked to biased self-perception
2011 report in Psychological Science on individual self-enhancement bias and societal levels of income inequality.
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Social networks and the dynamics of labour market outcomes: Evidence from refugees
2012 paper from Northwestern University in the Review of Economic Studies on the value of social networks for refugee job seekers in the United States.
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Evaluating online labor markets for experimental research: Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk
2012 study by MIT, Yale and the University of California, Berkeley, in Political Analysis on social science research participants on the Internet.
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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.
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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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