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Criminal Justice, Politics & Government

U.S. military casualties and the costs of war: Iraq, Afghanistan and post-9/11 conflicts

by John Wihbey | October 22, 2013

2013 review of casualty and wounded statistics relating to the post-9/11 conflicts; also included are monetary cost estimates for total operations and veterans care.

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Media, Politics & Government

Open government and conflicts with public trust and privacy: Recent research ideas

by John Wihbey | October 22, 2013

2013 review of academic papers and articles relating to basic tensions between government openness and other competing public interest values.

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Economics, Health

Effectiveness of paid sick days at reducing influenza transmission at work

by Chrissie Long | October 21, 2013

2013 study by the University of Pittsburgh published in the American Journal of Public Health on the impact of paid sick days on influenza transmission.

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Economics, Race & Gender

Women, work and work/life balance: Research roundup

by Margaret Weigel | October 20, 2013

2013 review of academic scholarship and government research on women, work and work/life balance.

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Economics, Race & Gender

Women and STEM occupations: Retention rates and reasons for leaving

by Anna Stansbury | October 18, 2013

2013 paper from U.T. Austin and Cornell University in Social Forces comparing the retention of women working in STEM-related fields to those in non-STEM work.

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Economics, Education, Health, Race & Gender

Long-term educational and economic impacts of increasing access to contraceptives

by Anna Stansbury | October 16, 2013

2013 working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research on the relationship between family planning access and long-term economic outcomes.

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Health, Media

Misrepresentation of randomized controlled trials in press releases and news coverage

by Leighton Walter Kille | October 12, 2013

2012 study in PLoS Medicine on studies, associated press releases and media coverage to understand how accurately the research results were conveyed.

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Economics, Race & Gender

Occupational gender segregation, social stratification and pay differences

by Carol Tan | October 11, 2013

2012 study published in the journal Sociology on the relationship between occupational segregation by gender and the extent of gender inequality.

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Environment, Media

Framing in news coverage of major U.S. natural disasters, 2000-2010

by John Wihbey | October 10, 2013

2013 study from of the University of Missouri and University of Oklahoma in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly on press accounts of 11 major events.

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Criminal Justice, Economics

Reassessing the association between gun availability and homicide rates at the cross-national level

by Cynthia Thaler | October 10, 2013

2011 study in the American Journal of Criminal Justice comparing gun availability and homicide rates across nations.

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