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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Pew Research: Partisan polarization surges in Bush, Obama years
2012 study by the Pew Research Center on shifts in American political values, including politics, business, immigration and religion, from 1987-2012.
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Juvenile arrest and collateral educational damage in the transition to adulthood
2012 study from the University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University on the impact of an arrest on a teen’s educational trajectory.
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Do colleges and universities increase their region’s human capital?
2011 study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published in the Journal of Economic Geography on the dynamics between higher education and local economies.
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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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Uninsured veterans and family members: Who are they and where do they live?
2012 report by the Urban Institute and the Robert John Wood Johnson Foundation on the Affordable Care Act and uninsured veterans.
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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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Therapeutic value of adolescents’ blogging about social-emotional difficulties
2012 study from researchers at the University of Haifa published in Psychological Services on how blogging by teens can help well-being.
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