A new paper concludes that ban-the-box policies actually reduce work opportunities for young, low-skilled black and Hispanic men with clean records.
Oct 03

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The production of black market elephant ivory expanded by an estimated 66 percent following a one-time legal sale in 2008, a new study shows.
Sep 23

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Even in a job where employees' only physical exertion involves answering the phone, air pollution takes its toll on productivity.
Sep 12

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There are substantial differences in the credit card offers that banks extend to different potential customers.
Aug 22

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Extension of Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act has not only shielded low-income Americans from out-of-pocket medical costs, but has also improved their overall financial health.
Aug 12

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The housing market experiences of a person's friends can have large effects on that person's housing market beliefs and housing investment decisions, even if these friends live far away.
Aug 08

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Disclosure of the Tuskegee syphilis study in 1972 coincided with increases in not only medical mistrust, but also mortality among black males.
Aug 01

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Researchers find that media coverage of adverse market outcomes is correlated with investor crash beliefs.
Jul 11

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Huge swaths of the Southern Great Plains were devastated in this human and environmental disaster of the 1930s. But did events really unfold as the popular account suggests? New evidence challenges conventional wisdom.
Jul 06

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A bias against deciding the same way in successive situations can affect whether a foreigner is deported, a business gets a loan or a batter strikes out.
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