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Racially resentful white voters prefer staunchly conservative black candidates over similar white candidates

4 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

A weaker, nonviolent police force could be a sign of a stronger democracy - A new study of a nonviolent encounter with police in Taiwan shows how the weakness of police power can be treated as an index for the strength of democratic values.

4 years ago journals.uchicago.edu taiwan

Partisan differences have been observed in willingness to engage in COVID-19-prevention behaviors

4 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

The implementation of copyrights in Italy in the wake of Napoleon's invasion led to a significant increase in the number of newly created operas, and the quality of new operas, but there were no benefits from copyright extensions beyond the life of the original creator.

4 years ago journals.uchicago.edu copyright

The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)

4 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

In the United States, the average American sleeps less than the minimum seven hours of sleep per night recommended by the Center for Disease Control, and nearly half of Americans report negative consequences from insufficient sleep.

4 years ago journals.uchicago.edu disease

DNA exonerations in rape cases strongly suggest that the wrongful-conviction rate is significantly higher among black convicts than white convicts.

4 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

Attending a charter school (publicly funded but privately managed schools) has no impact on test scores and adversely affects the children's earnings as adults.

4 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

ER doctors in the US have incentives to be out of network because patients do not usually "choose" their doctor when they go to the ER

4 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

American voters had more difficulty assessing the ideology of Donald Trump in 2016 than all presidential candidates since 1972 and all contemporary legislators.

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Children who attended the early childhood education program Head Start go on to earn higher incomes and obtain more years of education as adults than similar children who were not able to attend Head Start.

5 years ago journals.uchicago.edu go

Every dollar spent on high-quality, early-childhood programs for disadvantaged children returned $7.3 over the long-term

5 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

"We find a negative relationship between exposure to the criminal justice system and involvement in labor organizations..

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Younger whites are less racially prejudiced than older whites

5 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

How negative feedback influences goal-directed behaviors

5 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

Right-to-work laws lead to increases in economic inequality by reducing the power of labor unions

5 years ago journals.uchicago.edu economic

Robots and Jobs: Evidence from U.S

5 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

Both Democrats and Republicans have moved in a secular direction on moral issues

5 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

The "Preparing for Life" program which provided home visiting, parental guidance and speech & language development to disadvantaged Irish families led to increases in children’s cognitive and socioemotional/behavioral outcomes (relative to similar families who were not assigned the assistance).

5 years ago journals.uchicago.edu ireland

Scholars' views about the methods and truth of science varied by field: Natural scientists were more likely to think that science accurately measures and describes reality the than social scientists or history and philosophy of science scholars in a study of 1700 scholars from various fields.

5 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

Contrary to the conventional wisdom that people become more conservative as they age, "political attitudes are remarkably stable over the long term."

5 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

Payday loans increase personal bankruptcy rates by a factor of two

5 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

European polities over the 15th-20th centuries led by queens were more likely to engage in war than polities led by kings

5 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

Longevity genes that helped humans survive ancient airborne toxins may be the same genes that make humans resilient to pollution from fossil fuels and cigarette smoke today, according to a study published in the December 2019 issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology.

5 years ago journals.uchicago.edu biology

There is a bias against female political candidates: Survey experiments show that "voters hold female candidates, relative to male candidates, to more stringent qualification standards, and these higher standards limit the ability of female candidates to secure electoral support."

5 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

The Role of Diet in Resilience and Vulnerability to Climate Change among Early Agricultural Communities in the Maya Lowlands - Mass spectrometry radiocarbon dating and analyses of 50 human skeletal remains from Cahal Pech suggest more diverse diets may have promoted resilience in the face of change.

5 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

Emigration opportunities to the United States during the Age of Mass Migration (1860-1920) boosted labor movement activism and left-wing voting in Sweden

6 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

As the number of demolition orders issued against Palestinian structures in the West Bank increases, Palestinians are more likely to oppose peace and support violence against Israelis.

6 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

Supporters of populist presidential candidates change their view of whether the presidency counts as part of the "political establishment" if their candidate wins the presidency

6 years ago journals.uchicago.edu

Having more black kids in class changes white kids' attitudes and makes them more likely to date a black person as an adult

6 years ago journals.uchicago.edu