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Tuition troubles

January 13, 2020

Texas may show how to keep colleges open to poor students, while still providing a top-notch education.

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Media coverage of the 2020 Annual Meeting

January 10, 2020

Sessions on US health care, promoting diversity, and Fed policy receive widespread attention.

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Carrying the scars of conflict

January 8, 2020

How does being exposed to violence as a child affect the behavior of asylum seekers in their new host country?

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Occupational hazard

January 6, 2020

Who wins and who loses from free trade?

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Judging on gender

December 30, 2019

Student opinions of an instructor evolve differently depending on whether they're being taught by a man or woman.

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2019 in Research Highlights

December 27, 2019

Economists tackled populism, minimum wages, censorship, and more.

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You can’t buy honesty

December 23, 2019

Boosting public sector wages might attract candidates more prone to corruption.

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The unintended effects of incentives

December 20, 2019

An experiment to get kids eating healthy shows how theories can miss key nuances in the real world.

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Putting forth their best effort?

December 18, 2019

US students are falling behind their peers in other countries on academic assessments. How much of the gap could be explained by lackluster effort?

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The forces that unite and divide us

December 16, 2019

A more nuanced understanding of diversity can help explain why some nations are better at fostering a common identity.