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Public Health

Child and adolescent deaths decreased by half worldwide since 1990

Chloe Reichel | April 29, 2019
Child and adolescent deaths have decreased 51.7% worldwide from 1990 to 2017. But the gap between poor and rich countries has grown.
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Development

Blockchain: A new technology for global health development?

Chloe Reichel | November 29, 2017
Blockchain, the technological innovation behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, could spark global health development.
(U.S. Marines train Georgian soldiers outside Tbilisi. Photo: David Trilling)
Security, Military

U.S.-trained militaries more likely to overthrow their governments

David Trilling | August 30, 2017
The American military trains officers from around the world. Back at home, they are nearly twice as likely to attempt a coup than officers who do not receive U.S. training.
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Climate Change

Climate change could uproot millions who live far from the sea

David Trilling | June 19, 2017
Two recent papers project how inland communities will be negatively affected by climate change and predict destabilizing migrations.
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Climate Change

Heat waves: Increasingly common, ever more deadly

David Trilling | June 9, 2017
As the planet warms, record-breaking heat waves have become a public health crisis in developing countries like India, where the heat has killed thousands in recent years.
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Social Media

Can Facebook thwart corruption?

David Trilling | May 30, 2017
Widespread Facebook use may lower corruption, a new study suggests, especially in countries with poor press-freedom records.
Immigration

Immigrant children: How age of arrival impacts academic, job success

David Trilling | January 20, 2017
Teenage immigrants have a harder time adjusting to their new country than young children. They attend fewer years of school and earn less money as adults, a new study finds.
Claiming credit for foreign aid helps politicians hold power
Development

Claiming credit for foreign aid helps politicians hold power

David Trilling | January 9, 2017
Politicians in developing democracies appear more likely to win reelection if they claim to have secured foreign aid, even if they had nothing to do with it.
Business

Conflict minerals and firms’ ignorance over their supply chains

David Trilling | September 15, 2016
2016 study in the Academy of Management Journal that looks at how companies struggle, even when required by federal law, to account for the “conflict minerals” they use in their products.
Immigration

Migration, immigration and demographic science: Longer-term perspectives

John Wihbey | June 9, 2016
2016 study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that provides one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of the many fluid dimensions of population movement across societies.

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