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This study reports on reasons for returning and not returning to small-town America and the impacts that return migrants make on their ho...

This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to explore the extent and causes of widening differences in life expectancy ...

Reports estimates of mental health service utilization among adults in the U.S. within different racial/ethnic groups. Highlights include...

The report is based on new and original research that finds that the media landscape is still dominated by male voices and male perspective...

This paper discusses various methods for assessing group differences in academic achievement using only the ordinal content of achievement ...

While group messaging has become popular, particularly among adolescents, it has not yet been explored in the HCI literature. We interviewe...

From the Executive Summary Working with our partners University of Southern California’s Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans ...

China’s impressive economic growth since the 1980s raises the question of how much richer it will become over future decades. Its growing s...

Each year since 2003, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has produced the National Healthcare Quality Report and the National H...

This report contains discussions of the regulations addressing health emergencies in 25 jurisdictions, including countries from six contine...

Cognitive Aging assesses the public health dimensions of cognitive aging with an emphasis on definitions and terminology, epidemiology a...

In this paper, the authors advocate for a recommitment to democratic ideals within law enforcement to combat the culture and mindset that...

Poor people, especially people of color, face a far greater risk of being fined, arrested, and even incarcerated for minor offenses than ...

Political Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strengthen American Democracy” builds on political realism, an ...

Abstract: It is widely reported that partisanship in the United States Congress is at an historic high. Given that individuals are persuad...

Abstract: The creation of Fox News in 1996 was an event of deep, yet unappreciated, political and historical importance. For the first tim...

Can't help laughing at what the FBI thought librarians were up to... Once called the "library provision," Section 215 of the...

While both states and the federal government invest in early learning, these efforts have fallen short of what is needed to ensure that all...

Events in recent months have focused national attention on profound fractures in trust between some police departments and the communities ...

Mentally ill offenders possess a unique set of circumstances and needs. However, all too often, they cycle through the criminal justice sys...

The rise of ISIS has generated strong concerns in nations around the world, and a new Pew Research Center survey finds broad global support...

As the United States emerges from the Great Recession, concern is rising nationally over the issues of income inequality, stagnation of wo...

Our digital lives are leaving data trails through social networking sites, email providers, Internet service providers, and mobile apps. B...

CONTENTS Introduction by Dan Ariely Part 1 – Editorial Behavioral Science: Theory and Practice Selected Behavioral Economics Concep...

In 2013, our CGD colleagues Julia Clark and David Roodman designed a low-cost quantitative approach to ranking think tank performance. We a...

This report describes the results of a National Institute of Justice (NIJ)-sponsored research effort to identify and prioritize criminal ju...

Sesame Street is one of the largest early childhood interventions ever to take place. It was introduced in 1969 as an educational, early ...

The Copyright Office is reviewing the problem of orphan works under U.S. copyright law in continuation of its previous work on the subject ...

From the Press Release: ...four Federal Government agencies with roles in ensuring fairness in the federal workplace released a guide on t...

Over the past six years, the Education Department has taken unprecedented steps to hold career colleges accountable for giving students wha...

Investment Climate Statements provide country-specific information and assessments prepared by U.S. embassies and diplomatic missions abroad...

Today, with combat operations in Afghanistan winding down, U.S. policy toward the states of Central Asia is transitioning to a third era. T...

While the languages spoken by English Language Learner (ELL) students in the United States are very diverse, Spanish is the most common fir...

This report analyzes results of the Board’s second Survey of Household Economics and Decision making, conducted in October 2014, and compare...

Congress currently appropriates foreign affairs funding through annual Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs approp...

With current concern over incidents of sexual assault on America’s college campuses and with veterans returning to American universities in...

Traditionally official statistics describe economic and social developments by using indicators such as GDP. However, today it is widely ac...

Only one quarter of workers worldwide is estimated to have a stable employment relationship, according to a new report by the International...

Abstract: Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an important global public health problem. While there is a growing literature o...

Global legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright today released its 2015 Litigation Trends Annual Survey. This year’s survey is the 11th overal...

The need for analysts with expertise in big data software is becoming more apparent in today’s society. Unfortunately, the demand for thes...

Small towns and rural communities are home to millions of Americans, are a vibrant part of our nation’s economy, and include some of the mo...

The United States is turning gray, with the number of people ages 65 and older expected to nearly double by 2050. This major demographic ...

This report takes a comprehensive look at the financial situation of older Americans at the end of their lives. In particular, it document...

On May 20, 2015, the ODNI released a sizeable tranche of documents recovered during the raid on the compound used to hide Usama bin Ladin. ...