Female Airbnb hosts in the United States earn on average about 25% less per year than their male counterparts for their rentals, according to our new study. That's slightly higher than the annual gender wage gap reported ...
Economics & Business
Sep 22, 2022
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An analysis of 21 billion Facebook friendships shows that children from poorer homes are likely to earn more later in life if they grow up in areas where they can become friends with wealthier kids.
Social Sciences
Aug 1, 2022
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It's important to be well organized. And this is especially true for the genome—the entirety of an organism's genetic information, also known as DNA. The genomic DNA is several meters long but has to fit inside the cell's ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 11, 2022
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Metro areas in the United States have become increasingly unaffordable to residents, especially Black and Latino Americans, finds a new report from the USC Dornsife Equity Research Institute (ERI), published by the National ...
Economics & Business
Jun 17, 2022
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Jim Kaste was walking his dog when he tripped on a whale bone.
Earth Sciences
Apr 13, 2022
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Philadelphia is the poorest large city in the United States. It's also unusual in having a high proportion of homeowners compared to renters. Taken together, this means that poorer homeowners may lack the funds to maintain ...
Environment
Apr 13, 2022
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A first-of-its-kind article coauthored by scholars at Resources for the Future (RFF) and Columbia University in the journal American Economic Review finds that the loss of a hectare of wetlands (roughly the size of two and ...
Environment
Apr 1, 2022
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You visit the nursery, pick out a primo plant, come home, put it in the ground and wait for it to become a beautiful tree, shrub or perennial. Then spring arrives and it's dead or floundering.
Environment
Mar 21, 2022
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Whether they're getting a new shirt, a new computer, or taking a trip, people derive less "purchase happiness" from buying things when they feel financial stress, research from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business shows.
Social Sciences
Feb 28, 2022
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Elderly people living near or downwind of unconventional oil and gas development (UOGD)—which involves extraction methods including directional (non-vertical) drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking—are at higher ...
Environment
Jan 27, 2022
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