What is the rate of mental illness in the United States?
2012 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report mental illness rates across the population.
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Iran sanctions: Congressional Research Service report
2011 report from the Congressional Research Service on background issues relating to sanctions on Iran.
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Federal report: Prescription drug abuse, 2011
2011 federal government-sponsored research on prescription-drug use, both of legal and illicit substances, by U.S. adolescents.
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How do phone and Internet surveys compare?
2011 study from Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, University Chicago and LinChiat Chang Consulting in Public Opinion Quarterly on survey sampling and accuracy.
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Voting problems, polling places and the private act of voting
2011 study from the CalTech and MIT Voting Technology Project in Public Opinion Quarterly on security and privacy in polling places.
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Rising age gap in economic well-being
2011 report from the Pew Research Center on the growing wealth gap between households headed by younger versus older members.
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Narrow victories and hard games: Revisiting the primary divisiveness hypothesis
2010 study from the University of Wisconsin on how hard-fought presidential primaries unfold and their implications for the general election.
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Private equity and employment in the United States
2011 study for NBER uses data from the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Business Database from 1980 to 2005 to assess the average outcomes of private equity buyouts
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Social selection and peer influence in an online social network
2011 study in PNAS on social networks and how friendships shape, or form around, shared tastes.
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Link between religion and helping others: Role of values, ideas and language
2011 study from DePaul University published in the journal Sociology of Religion exploring the relationship between religious values and altruistic, humanitarian behavior.
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