Economic impacts of non-native forest insects in the Continental United States
2011 study on the economic costs imposed by more than 450 introduced insect species now established in forests in the United States.
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Leave home without it? The effects of credit card debt and available credit on spending
2011 study in the Journal of Marketing Research on how credit card debt affects the spending habits of consumers with higher self-control.
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Building a better America — one wealth quintile at a time
2011 study by the Harvard Business School and Duke University on U.S. residents’ perceptions of wealth inequality in the United States.
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The state of the nation’s housing, 2012
2012 report by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University on housing trends after the United States financial crisis.
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Strong ties, weak ties and islands: Structural and cultural predictors of organizational innovation
2002 paper in Industrial and Corporate Change that examines innovation dynamics among more than 700 entrepreneurial teams attempting to start businesses.
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Impacts of the world recession and economic crisis on tourism: North America
2010 report in the Journal of Travel Research on how the financial crisis is affecting travel in Canada, the United States and Mexico.
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Mortgage distress: How U.S. families are handling savings, mortgages and other debts
2012 report from the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research on how U.S. homeowners fared economically between 2009 and 2001.
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Self-employment and local economic performance: Evidence from U.S. counties
2011 study in the journal Papers in Regional Science on the benefits of having more self-employed people and small businesses in a region.
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Chasing the American dream: Recent college graduates and the Great Recession
2012 report from the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers on patterns of employment, wages and difficulties in job-finding among recent graduates.
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Where have all the U.S. startups and young firms gone?
2012 report by researchers from the University of Maryland and the U.S. Census Bureau on the relative decline in startups and “young” firms across the United States.
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