The urge to punish is not only about revenge – unfairness can unleash it, too
Unfairness alone is upsetting enough to drive people to punish lucky recipients of unfair outcomes.
Sept. 30, 2020 • ~6 min
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J-PAL North America launches research initiative to focus on Covid-19 recovery
The Covid-19 Recovery and Resilience Initiative aims to catalyze evidence-based policy solutions to the challenges posed by the pandemic.
Sept. 21, 2020 • ~4 min
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Nobel prize-winning economics of climate change is misleading and dangerous – here's why
This celebrated research gives governments a reason to give climate change a low priority, but is based on spurious empirical data.
Sept. 9, 2020 • ~7 min
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‘Underwater’ mortgages sap earnings and mobility
New big-data research connects "underwater" mortgages from the 2007-08 recession with people's stagnant earnings and inability to move.
Sept. 1, 2020 • ~8 min
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Economic hardship from COVID-19 will hit minority seniors the most
New data shows the Great Recession hurt older, poorer Blacks and Hispanics the most. The pandemic downturn is likely to be even worse for them.
Aug. 24, 2020 • ~7 min
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'Morality pills' may be the US's best shot at ending the coronavirus pandemic, according to one ethicist
Rather than a vaccine to beef up your immune system, a psychoactive substance could boost your cooperative, pro-social behavior – curtailing the selfish actions that spur on coronavirus's spread.
Aug. 10, 2020 • ~9 min
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Experts: Better COVID-19 testing is still vital to ‘reopening’
There's no pandemic "silver bullet", but COVID-19 testing, contact tracing, masks, and vaccine development are key to going back to school or the office.
Aug. 7, 2020 • ~4 min
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Avalanches inspire tool to predict ‘black swan’ events
By looking systems in which things suddenly go very wrong, researchers created a tool that could help predict the next gigantic global disaster.
Aug. 6, 2020 • ~7 min
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Avalanches inspire tool to predict ‘black swan’ events
Looking at systems where things go very wrong suddenly, researchers have created a tool that could help predict the next gigantic global disaster.
Aug. 6, 2020 • ~7 min
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Treating children for worms yields health and financial gains
A 20-year study of Kenyan schoolchildren who receive sustained treatment against common parasitic infections grow up to achieve a higher standard of living, with long-lasting health and economic benefits that extend to their communities.
Aug. 3, 2020 • ~9 min
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