Tag: Charts
Income inequality is getting worse in US urban areas
Brian Thiede, Pennsylvania State University; David L. Brown, Cornell University; Jaclyn Butler, Pennsylvania State University, and Leif Jensen, Pennsylvania State University
Income inequality has increased...
The US birth rate keeps declining: 4 questions answered
Marie Menke, University of Pittsburgh
Over the last few decades, birth rates have decreased across the globe.
The United States is no exception. Aside from a...
Why the US still hasn’t had a woman president
Farida Jalalzai, Oklahoma State University
Estonia, Singapore, Ethiopia and Finland – these are some of the 21 countries currently governed by a female president or...
The secondhand smoke you’re breathing may have come from another state
Sebastian Eastham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Steven Barrett, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientists estimate that each year in the U.S., outdoor air pollution shortens...
Children of color already make up the majority of kids in...
Rogelio Sáenz, The University of Texas at San Antonio and Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Texas A&M University
Demographers project that whites will become a...
Exploring the data on Hollywood’s gender pay gap
Roberto Pedace, Scripps College
Audiences were furious to hear that Michelle Williams was paid eight times less than Mark Wahlberg for her starring role in...
How rich people like Gordon Sondland buy their way to being...
Dennis Jett, Pennsylvania State University
In every other developed democratic country, the role of ambassador, with only very rare exceptions, is given to career diplomats...
If you’re using ‘millennial’ as a meaningful measurement, you should probably...
Joseph Cabosky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
What value does the word “millennial” actually have?
Americans have heard the term ad nauseum by now....
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The pitfalls of hospitals seeking donations from their rich patients
Sara Konrath, IUPUI and Reshma Jagsi, University of Michigan
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
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