Costs of and benefits resulting from public library e-government services
2013 study in First Monday on how public libraries are increasingly playing a role, largely unfunded, in helping citizens navigate government services.
2013 study in First Monday on how public libraries are increasingly playing a role, largely unfunded, in helping citizens navigate government services.
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2013 research overview of the impact of computers on U.S. workers, by Frank Seth Levy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Richard J. Murnane, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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2013 research overview of prison rates in America and their social consequences, by Bruce Western, Harvard University, and Becky Pettit, University of Washington, Seattle.
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2013 study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on how the introduction of bullet trains is associated with rising real-estate prices in China’s secondary cities.
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2014 study in The International Journal of Press/Politics on how smaller NGOs tend to struggle to communicate on the Internet.
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2014 review of research and data on gender and African women, including four new papers in the Journal of African Economies.
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2014 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) exploring the potential of urban adaptation strategies to counteract the effects of long-term global climate change.
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2014 National Bureau of Economic Research study suggesting that it is better to tax unhealthy ingredients broadly rather than specific brands, goods and products.
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2014 interview with Richard Locke, of MIT and Brown University, who studies global labor and corporate responsibility issues.
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Updated in 2014, this review of literature on the effectiveness of surveillance cameras against crime includes a 2009 meta-analysis by Northeastern and the University of Cambridge.
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