Importance of a museum visit: Assessing arts education and institutions
2013 study in Educational Research assessing the effect of a museum visit on students’ ability to engage in critical thinking, a key tool of higher-level reasoning.
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The impact of high-achieving charter schools on non-test score outcomes
2013 study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research on how attendees of the Promise Academy in the Harlem Children’s Zone did later in life.
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Optimal level of inheritance taxes in a context of rising inequality
A 2013 paper from U.C. Berkeley in the journal Econometrica exploring the trade-off between equity and efficiency in estate tax rates.
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World Bank government-reform projects: One-size-fits-all or adapted to their context?
2013 working paper by the Harvard Kennedy School that examines World Bank governance-related projects to see to what degree they’re adjusted to their context.
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Do high food prices increase food insecurity in the United States?
2013 study in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy on how higher local food prices correlate with higher food insecurity among the poor.
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Economic impacts of tax expenditures: Evidence from spatial variation across the U.S.
2013 study from Harvard University and UC Berkeley on factors that can contribute to intergenerational income mobility rates.
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Public employee quality in a geographic context: A study of rural teachers
2013 study from University of Kentucky, University of Kansas and Tennessee State on teacher quality in Appalachia and the challenges of improving rural education systems.
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Winner-take-all politics: The precipitous rise of top incomes in the United States
2010 study from Yale University and U.C. Berkeley published in Politics & Society on rising American income inequality and root political causes.
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Sex trafficking and HIV: An observational study from Southern India
2013 study in the American Journal of Epidemiology on the risks for HIV infection among different populations of female sex workers in India.
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Summer temperature variability and long-term survival among elderly people
2012 study from the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Michigan on how summer temperatures can affect the elderly suffering from chronic diseases.
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