The value of fame: Preadolescent perceptions of popular media and their future aspirations
2011 study by the University of California-Los Angeles in Developmental Psychology on tween values and media engagement.
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Is tourism a low-income industry? Evidence from three coastal regions
2011 study by Clemson and Michigan State University on how revenue generated by tourism is distributed across different income groups.
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Advanced Internet research techniques: Five key lessons from Google
Overview of search lessons and techniques from Google, with a focus on how to locate scholarly and research-related resources.
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Women’s well-being: Ranking America’s top 25 metro areas
2012 report by the Social Science Research Council on comparative well-being levels for women living in the metropolitan United States.
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Impacts of the world recession and economic crisis on tourism: North America
2010 report in the Journal of Travel Research on how the financial crisis is affecting travel in Canada, the United States and Mexico.
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Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture
2012 metastudy in the journal Nature on the differences in crop yields between organic farming and conventional industrialized agriculture.
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Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
2012 metastudy in Nature that examines papers on the loss of biodiversity within ecosystems and the implications for human civilization.
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Economic inequality is linked to biased self-perception
2011 report in Psychological Science on individual self-enhancement bias and societal levels of income inequality.
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Social networks and the dynamics of labour market outcomes: Evidence from refugees
2012 paper from Northwestern University in the Review of Economic Studies on the value of social networks for refugee job seekers in the United States.
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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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