Gender and development in Africa: Roundup of recent research
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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Urban adaptation can roll back warming of emerging megapolitan regions
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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Effect of prices on nutrition: Comparing the impact of product- and nutrient-specific taxes
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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Research chat: Global supply chains expert Richard Locke
2014 interview with Richard Locke, of MIT and Brown University, who studies global labor and corporate responsibility issues.
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The effect of CCTV on public safety: Research roundup
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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American economic power in decline? Rethinking the data in the context of globalization
December 2013 study in International Studies Quarterly with a new view on the persistence of American power, supported by new data analysis.
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Syllabus: Reporting race, gender and diversity in America
Semester-long course on how to fairly and ethically cover diverse communities, which can often include not only race and ethnicity, but also religion, sexual orientation, national origin and more.
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Opposition to Muslims and the Muslim headscarf in Western Europe
2014 study by the WZB Berlin Social Science Center on attitudes towards Muslims and headscarf legislation in Western Europe.
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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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