Energy beverages: Content and safety
2010 Mayo Clinic review of the contents and safety of energy beverages and sports drinks.
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Saving for retirement: Overcoming human biases and knowledge deficits
2010 report by the Social Security Administration on faulty decision-making in retirement investing strategies.
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Effects of beverage alcohol price and tax levels on drinking
2009 metastudy by the University of Florida examining the reported effects of alcohol price/taxes on purchasing and consumption habits.
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Claiming health: Front-of-package labeling of children’s food
2011 report by the Prevention Institute examining the nutritional qualities of 58 children’s products with front-of-the-package labeling.
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Importance of the individual insurance mandate: Evidence from Massachusetts
2011 analysis by researchers from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Wellesley College on the Commonwealth’s insurance-requirement law.
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Understanding the participatory news consumer
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.
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Do babies learn from baby media?
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.
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Policies to alter the use of alternative financial services
2008 Brookings Institution study on options for moving disadvantaged individuals to the banking system.
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