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The downsides of making benefits more flexible

April 22, 2019

For the neediest, giving in-kind may be better than giving cash.

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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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Connecting Africa to the digital fastlane

April 3, 2019

How did high-speed, high-capacity Internet affect African businesses and workers?

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The indirect effects of good teaching

March 29, 2019

An educator's value is greater than the impact they have on their own students.

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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?

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Increasing familiarity, reducing discrimination

March 19, 2019

Does school diversity make rich students more willing to socialize with poor students?

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Risky business

March 13, 2019

How did an insurance requirement force small drillers out of Texas' oil and gas industry?

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Earn less, pay more

February 27, 2019

Can income tax policy explain how globalization drives income inequality?

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Politically risky business

February 6, 2019

How much do close elections affect business investment?