Meta-analyses have concluded that positive emotions do not reduce appetitive risk behaviors (risky behaviors that fulfill appetitive or craving states, such as smoking and excessive alcohol use).
Civic education in the nation's public schools has suffered neglect in recent years. In the 1960s, by no means a golden age, students usually took three civics courses in high school.
We show that intergenerational mobility changed rapidly by race and class in recent decades and use these trends to study the causal mechanisms underlying changes in economic mobility.
This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance.
Global demand for renewable energy is growing rapidly, fueled by the falling cost of solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles.
Amid China’s rise, Americans should ask what Beijing is doing right—and what they’re doing wrong.
Intergenerational mobility captures the distance between the socioeconomic positions of parents versus their adult children.
We use unique survey data from former victims of child sex trafficking and vulnerable girls in shelters in the Philippines to study the predictors of becoming a victim of trafficking and provide insig
The clean energy transition has reached adolescence. Its future direction is not yet set, and in the meantime, its internal paradoxes make for a volatile mix.
The conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine can only end with deals that don’t satisfy anyone completely.
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