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Survey says?

April 17, 2019
Inaccurate Census data has led researchers to underestimate the effectiveness of anti-poverty programs.
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The elephant curve

April 15, 2019
How much has inequality grown around the world over the last forty years?
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Closing the tuition gap

April 12, 2019
Should out-of-state students pay more than in-state students?
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Curbing a desire to drink

April 10, 2019
An experiment measures how much Indian cycle-rickshaw drivers actually wanted to remain sober on the job.
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Reassessing public health campaigns

April 8, 2019
Are we overstating the role that anti-TB initiatives played in driving down death rates in the 20th century?
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Different expectations

March 27, 2019
How do gender stereotypes shape our beliefs of how we will perform on certain tasks?
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As farmers go, so goes the nation

March 25, 2019
How did agriculture help the US recover from the Great Depression in the spring of 1933?