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Public Health

Should states ban religious exemptions for student vaccinations? Researchers weigh in

Denise-Marie Ordway | September 1, 2019
Three recent studies examine the effectiveness and unintended consequences of banning religious exemptions to childhood vaccinations in California schools.
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Health Care

Maternal death rate lowered in California, but racial disparity remains

Chloe Reichel | September 11, 2018
After the launch of an initiative to reduce maternal mortality in California, the maternal death rate fell by nearly half.
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Criminal Justice

California’s Prop 47 reduced felony drug arrest rates, racial disparities

Chloe Reichel | June 28, 2018
After the passage of California’s Proposition 47, which reduced criminal penalties for drug possession, felony drug arrest rates declined and racial disparities among these arrests decreased.
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Race

Forced sterilization in California targeted Latina women

Chloe Reichel | April 27, 2018
California’s eugenic sterilization program disproportionately targeted Latinos, and especially Latina women, new research finds.
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Criminal Justice

Juvenile delinquents: Boys with hostile fathers commit more crime

Denise-Marie Ordway | April 25, 2018
Teens with harsh fathers commit more crime and use a larger variety of drugs and alcohol, a new study suggests.
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Criminal Justice

Number of U.S. felons tripled in three decades

David Trilling | December 1, 2017
One-third of African American men have been convicted of a felony, according to data recently published in Demography. For white men, the figure is less than half that.
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Environment

Wildfire smoke: Some elderly more vulnerable

Chloe Reichel | October 18, 2017
Among the elderly, women and black people are more likely to be admitted to the hospital from exposure to wildfire smoke than men and people of other races.
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Pollution

The health effects and costs of air pollution: Research roundup

Denise-Marie Ordway | December 7, 2015
2015 review of scholarship on impact of air pollution in the United States, including health effects, economic costs and automotive and transportation causes.
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Climate Change

Long-term perspective on wildfires in the western United States

Leighton Walter Kille | September 14, 2015
2012 study in PNAS on the frequency of wildfires in the American West over the past 3,000 years and the implications for larger wildfires.
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Sustainability

Comparing price and non-price approaches to urban water conservation

Leighton Walter Kille | April 29, 2015
2014 and 2009 studies from U.C. Riverside, Yale and the Harvard Kennedy School on the relative merits of policies to encourage efficient use of scarce water resources.

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