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Expert Commentary

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Economics, Education

Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities

by Leighton Walter Kille | January 18, 2011

2010 report from the Education Trust on the relative characteristics of the for-profit school sector, including tuition costs, average student loan amounts and default rates, and graduation rates.

Expert Commentary

Media

Understanding the participatory news consumer

by Sui-Jade Ho | January 18, 2011

2010 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project and the Project for Excellence in Journalism on trends in the news habits of Americans.

Expert Commentary

Economics, Health

What’s the hard return on employee wellness programs?

by Sui-Jade Ho | January 18, 2011

2010 study published in the Harvard Business Review potential benefits of well-designed wellness programs to both companies and workers.

Expert Commentary

Economics, Environment, Politics & Government

Climate change and economic growth: Evidence from the last half century

by Leighton Walter Kille | January 18, 2011

2008 paper by researchers from Harvard, MIT and Northwestern University on the potential effect of climate change on nations’ economic growth.

Expert Commentary

Economics, Education, Media

Do babies learn from baby media?

by Leighton Walter Kille | December 1, 2010

2010 study by researchers from the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt on the number of words that 12- to 18-month-olds picked up from a best-selling instructional DVD for children.

Expert Commentary

Education, Race & Gender

How does your kindergarten classroom affect your earnings?

by Leighton Walter Kille | November 29, 2010

2010 study from Harvard, Northwestern, and the University of California, Berkeley, researchers on the potential long-term effects of high-quality early education.

Expert Commentary

Environment

Greenhouse gas mitigation by agricultural intensification

by Leighton Walter Kille | November 29, 2010

2010 study by Stanford University that seeks to quantify the effects of fertilizers and higher crop yields on greenhouse-gas emissions.

Expert Commentary

Economics, Health, Politics & Government

Speed cameras for the prevention of road traffic injuries and deaths

by Leighton Walter Kille | November 29, 2010

2010 metastudy by researchers from the University of Queensland on the findings from 35 different studies of speed cameras.

Expert Commentary

Health

CT scans and the national lung screening trial

by Leighton Walter Kille | November 29, 2010

2010 study by the National Cancer Institute on the potential benefits of low-dose helical CT scans in the detection of lung cancer.

Expert Commentary

Economics, Politics & Government

Relationships between streetcars and the built environment

by Leighton Walter Kille | November 29, 2010

2010 study from the Transit Cooperative Research Program on recent streetcar systems and their impact on development and land-use patterns.

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