Public capital in countries with abundant natural resources: Is there a curse?
2013 study by the University of Oxford and the University of Sussex on the relationship between per-capita rents from natural resources and levels of public capital.
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Risk factors for adolescents from greater exposure to sexual content in movies
2012 study from Dartmouth College published in Psychological Science on sexual content in movies and adolescent sexual behavior.
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Anthropogenic emissions of methane in the United States
A 2013 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences seeking to better quantify the current levels, regions and sectors that are the key sources of methane in the United States.
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Are U.S. state and local governments on a fiscally sustainable path?
2013 study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on the growing gap between the revenues that state and local governments receive and their mandatory long-term obligations.
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Heroin use in the United States: Data and recent trends
2014 review of relevant reports and studies on the issue of heroin abuse and availability in the United States as well as the drug’s sources around the world.
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What’s new in digital scholarship, January 2014: Crowdfunding, disruption, Arabic Twitter, youth engagement, more
January 2014 review of latest studies in journalism, communications, computer science and global technology.
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Local government services and contracts: Best practices and key issues to watch
2013 study in State and Local Government Review on the nature of public-private service delivery and the potential benefits and risks of the various forms it can take.
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The influence of union membership on political participation and social capital
2013 study by the UMass Amherst and the U.C. Irvine in Social Forces on the effect of unions’ political activities on members’ levels of broader social engagement.
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Prevention of HIV infection with early antiretroviral therapy
2011 study sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases on the potential of early antiretroviral treatment to reduce HIV transmission.
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Waging war on poverty: Historical trends using the Supplemental Poverty Measure
2014 study for the National Bureau of Economic Research that focuses on the effectiveness of government anti-poverty policies since 1967, using the new measure from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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