Department of Justice: Capital punishment, 2010 statistical tables
2011 report on prisoner demographics, manner of execution, pardons or sentence commutations and capital punishment trends over time.
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Exit talk in media coverage of past presidential campaigns
2011 study from Political Research Quarterly on the pressures faced by trailing contenders for presidential nominations to leave the race.
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Exercise, physical activity and exertion over the business cycle
2011 paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research on the effects of unemployment on peoples’ level of physical activity.
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Building blocks of economic complexity
2009 study in PNAS on diversity in developing economies and corresponding potential for growth, based on products produced and their global context.
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Trends in U.S. family income mobility, 1969-2006
2012 paper by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on trends in family income mobility in the United States over the past 40 years.
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Health benefits and costs of recreational programs: An analysis of four Ciclovía programs
2011 research from the CDC, WHO, S.F. State University, Universidad de los Andes in Bogata, Universidad de Chile, University of Zurich, and other institutions.
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Global potential for wind-generated electricity
2009 study by Harvard University and Finland’s VTT Technical Research Centre on the overall global potential for wind-generated power.
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Global senior executives’ perceptions of the role of the firm in society
2011 study in the Socio-Economic Review on the attitudes of senior executives about corporate social responsibility.
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Research chat: Eric Ferkenhoff of Northwestern’s Medill School
Interview with Northwestern’s Eric Ferkenhoff on teaching and research in the classroom.
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Peer effects in the diffusion of solar photovoltaic panels
2012 study by New York University and Yale University on possible peer-influence effects in the installion of solar panels within different ZIP codes.
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