Impact of juvenile curfew laws on arrests of youth and adults
2011 paper in The American Law and Economics Review on youth curfews and crime rates.
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Earnings inequality and mobility: Evidence from Social Security Data since 1937
2011 study from Columbia, U.C. Berkeley, and the Social Security Administration in Quarterly Journal of Economics on U.S. mobility and inequality over time.
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Polls or pols? The real driving force behind presidential nominations
2003 paper for the Brookings Review about the importance of party insider endorsements during the presidential nominating contests.
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Crossing the line: Sexual harassment at school
2011 report by the American Association of University Women on sexual harassment in U.S. schools, including digital harassment on Facebook or through text or email.
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Changes in time allocation among American families
2011 paper in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on the broad changes to work/life balance in the American family.
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Who offers tax-based business development incentives?
2011 paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research on the conditions that make special municipal tax deals likely and their association with political corruption.
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IPCC: Climate change adaptation to reduce the risks of extreme events and disasters
2012 report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the potential impacts of climate change and potential management strategies.
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The New Hampshire effect in presidential nominations
2004 study in Political Research Quarterly on the impact of the New Hampshire primaries on overall election outcomes.
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Global shift in the social relationships of networked individuals: Meeting and dating online comes of age
2011 study by University of Oxford on global online dating practices, focusing on how the couples met, how they communicate, and the role of the Internet in their daily lives.
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Resources, contests and the exit of candidates during the U.S. presidential primaries
2006 study in the British Journal of Political Science on the factors that most strongly predict the duration of presidential candidacies.
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