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Empowering women, improving health

June 13, 2018

Legal systems that give women more rights lead to lower rates of female HIV.

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A better understanding of food insecurity

June 4, 2018

A larger share of minorities lack access to healthy food than whites. But the severity of that poor access matters, too.

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Economics (in space!)

May 30, 2018

Economists are well positioned to study the commercialization of space.

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Moving on up

May 21, 2018

A housing reform in Dallas offers lessons for how voucher design shapes decisions about where to live.

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The rise of the state

May 16, 2018

The Great Depression led to widespread institutional changes in the US.

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Money Matters

May 7, 2018

To what extent can educational finance reform close the achievement gap?

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Explaining agriculture's wage gap

May 2, 2018

Barriers to switching jobs are smaller than usually thought.

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Re-evaluating risk

April 23, 2018

What can the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake tell us about how men and women respond differently to traumatic events?

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Better banking?

April 18, 2018

Access to basic accounts may not be enough to promote usage.

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Won't you be my neighbor?

April 9, 2018

Sanitation practices help explain a longstanding puzzle over infant mortality rates in India.