Constrained after college: Student loans and early-career occupational choices
2011 study by the U.C. Berkeley and Princeton University in the Journal of Public Economics on how student debt can affect early career choices.
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Implications of immigration policies for U.S. farm sector and workforce
2011 study in Economic Inquiry on the effect of U.S. immigration policy on unauthorized immigrants from Mexico and subsequent economic impacts.
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Hotspot of accelerated sea-level rise on the Atlantic Coast of North America
2012 study in the journal Nature Climate Change on the rates of change in the ocean levels for the Northeastern United States.
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The value of fame: Preadolescent perceptions of popular media and their future aspirations
2011 study by the University of California-Los Angeles in Developmental Psychology on tween values and media engagement.
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Is tourism a low-income industry? Evidence from three coastal regions
2011 study by Clemson and Michigan State University on how revenue generated by tourism is distributed across different income groups.
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Women’s well-being: Ranking America’s top 25 metro areas
2012 report by the Social Science Research Council on comparative well-being levels for women living in the metropolitan United States.
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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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Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture
2012 metastudy in the journal Nature on the differences in crop yields between organic farming and conventional industrialized agriculture.
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Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
2012 metastudy in Nature that examines papers on the loss of biodiversity within ecosystems and the implications for human civilization.
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Economic inequality is linked to biased self-perception
2011 report in Psychological Science on individual self-enhancement bias and societal levels of income inequality.
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