Some around the world predict that the COVID-19 will heal divisions and narrow inequalities. A pandemic, they claim, can remind us of our common humanity and the need to discard prejudices. It can also highlight inequalities ...
Social Sciences
Mar 20, 2020
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We react less negatively to extreme manifestations of economic disparity, such as homelessness, if we think the economic system is fair and legitimate, and these differences in reactivity are even detectable at the physiological ...
Social Sciences
Jan 30, 2020
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The number of billionaires has doubled in the past decade and the world's 22 richest men now have more wealth than all the women in Africa, Oxfam said Monday in an appeal to the Davos elite to get serious about inequality.
Economics & Business
Jan 20, 2020
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Returning croplands to forests is a sustainability gold standard to mitigate climate change impacts and promote conservation. That is, new research shows, unless you're a poor farmer.
Environment
Dec 19, 2019
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The holidays are a time we focus on those in need and heap scorn on the Scrooges and Mr. Potters who don't. But how well do we understand poverty otherwise—such as who's poor, where they live, and the help that is or isn't ...
Economics & Business
Dec 17, 2019
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The thicker the wallet, the more cooperative you are? An economist from the Max-Planck-Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance proves via laboratory experiments that rich people are believed to be more cooperative than poor ...
Social Sciences
Dec 5, 2019
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To Katja Guenther, animals—and how we interact with them—can tell us a lot more about ourselves than we might think.
Social Sciences
Nov 26, 2019
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A review of parole-hearing transcripts since California's juvenile justice reform law took effect in 2014 found that black people in prison who were convicted as teenagers, especially those without private attorneys, had ...
Social Sciences
Sep 10, 2019
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Strong community ties and government support for homeowners living in vulnerable areas boost survival rates and aid in recovery in the wake of hurricanes and other large-scale disasters, says Northeastern professor Daniel ...
Social Sciences
Sep 5, 2019
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Social Sciences
Aug 5, 2019
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