A well-designed work-study program can boost human capital accumulation, with long-lasting, positive effects on participants' labor market outcomes, according to a study that analyzed "Yo Estudio y Trabajo" (YET), a program ...
Economics & Business
May 9, 2022
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The benefits of social mobility seem to be widely agreed on. The idea that a person's opportunities and earnings should not be defined by their background is supported across the political spectrum.
Social Sciences
May 5, 2022
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Why do we yell at our computer when it struggles to work? Why do some cars look like they're smiling? Why does your guitar seem free-spirited? This is because of our innate human tendency for anthropomorphism: the ascription ...
Social Sciences
Mar 25, 2022
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In North American elementary and high-schools, Black and Indigenous students are disciplined through suspension and expulsion more often than their peers. These same groups of students are also more often exposed to adversity ...
Social Sciences
Mar 23, 2022
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Thirty percent of women experience domestic violence in various circumstances but the rate increases during natural disasters such as bushfires, floods, and cyclones while community attention is focused on recovery and reconstruction.
Social Sciences
Mar 15, 2022
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A new study conducted at the University of Turku, Finland, does not support the assumption that grandparents would always participate more in a grandchild's life during difficult circumstances.
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2022
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If you feel your social skills have gone downhill, you're not alone. After nearly two years of working from home, and much less social activity outside of work, we're likely to commit more unintentional lapses in etiquette, ...
Social Sciences
Feb 25, 2022
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New research from Trinity College Dublin has shown, for the first time, that the economic strain experience by families during Ireland's great recession between 2009 and 2014 had a detrimental impact on young people's performance ...
Economics & Business
Nov 16, 2021
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Poor preschoolers get fewer chances than wealthier children to bring their prized personal possessions to school. That's what I found in my two-year comparative ethnographic study of two preschools in Madison, Wisconsin. ...
Education
Sep 23, 2021
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Not all jobs are 'good jobs', and new research from the Universities of East Anglia (UEA) and Birmingham finds such work can have a negative impact on wellbeing.
Economics & Business
Aug 6, 2021
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