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- Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery: An Essay on Popular Culture https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/428328 2 comments
- The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017) https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/691462?journalCode=jacr 369 comments
- The poorest millennials have less wealth at age 35 than their baby boomer counterparts did, but the wealthiest millennials have more. Income inequality is driven by increased economic returns to typical middle-class trajectories and declining returns to typical working-class trajectories. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/726445 124 comments economics
- Ban-the-box policies could reduce disadvantages for job applicants with criminal records, but background check questions (which often remain after ban-the-box policies) deter applicants just as strongly as criminal record questions https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/722293?journalCode=ajs 6 comments science
- Antipoverty Program: Kids whose mothers were in Head Start when they (the mothers) were kids also see higher educ. attainment, less teen pregn., less criminal activity, & 6-11% higher wages. This second-generation effect is causal, likely due to changed parenting behavior/other noncognitive channels https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/720764 28 comments science
- Replacing taxes on new car registrations with increased fuel taxes would increase aggregate welfare, tax revenue, and car ownership, while reducing car ages, driving, and CO2 emissions. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/720463 387 comments science
- Americans support liberal economic policies in response to deepening economic inequality except when the likely beneficiaries are disproportionately Black. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/718289 11 comments economy
- Meta-analysis finds that rather than discriminating against women who run for office, voters on average appear to reward women with a gain of approximately 2 percentage points in support. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/716290 108 comments science
- Studying the Impact of ISIS Propaganda Campaigns https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/716281?journalCode=jop 2 comments science
- Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts | Journal of Political Economy https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/717455 2 comments economics
- Brutal Viking Ritual Called 'Blood Eagle' Was Anatomically Possible. The ritual allegedly involved carving the victim's back open and cutting their ribs away from their spine, before the lungs were pulled out through the resulting wounds https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/717332 33 comments science
- Becoming a homeowner leads individuals to participate more in local elections. "The homeowner boost in turnout is particularly pronounced—almost twice as large as the overall effect—when zoning issues are on the ballot." This may account for widespread NIMBYism and restrictive zoning in the U.S. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/714932 35 comments science
- More than 43% of white student admits at Harvard University are ALDC admissions (athletes, legacies, dean’s interest list, children of faculty and staff). Roughly three-quarters of white ALDC admits would have been rejected absent their ALDC status. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/713744 3689 comments science
- Who Is High Income, Anyway? Social Comparison, Subjective Group Identification, and Preferences over Progressive Taxation | The Journal of Politics: Vol 83, No 4 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/711627 3 comments science
- Physically attractive individuals earn substantially more than otherwise similar unattractive individuals. The beauty wage gap is the largest among black women. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/715141 2958 comments science
- A record number of firearm background checks were completed in the US at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and during the George Floyd protests in 2020. The effect was non-partisan, applying equally to both Democrat and Republican states. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/713035 173 comments science
- A weaker, nonviolent police force could be a sign of a stronger democracy - A new study of a nonviolent encounter with police in Taiwan shows how the weakness of police power can be treated as an index for the strength of democratic values. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/711997 296 comments science
- The Contrasting Effects of Repeated Practice on Creativity https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/709174 6 comments science
- In the United States, the average American sleeps less than the minimum seven hours of sleep per night recommended by the Center for Disease Control, and nearly half of Americans report negative consequences from insufficient sleep. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/jacr/pr/200929 71 comments science
- Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/691462?journalcode=jacr 3 comments science
- Children exposed to toxic waste while gestating have substantially worse cognitive and behavioral outcomes than do their unaffected siblings. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/706091 6 comments science
- ER doctors in the US have incentives to be out of network because patients do not usually "choose" their doctor when they go to the ER. In 2014, NY became the first state to introduce reforms aimed at limiting the ability to bill out of network. It successfully reduced out-of-network billing by 88%. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708819 2424 comments science
- Meta-analytic forecasts of elections (e.g. 538) increases voters' certainty about an election’s outcome, and decreases turnout. Election forecasting is particularly prominent in liberal outlets, and tends to more strongly affect the candidate who is ahead. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/708682 3 comments science
- How negative feedback influences goal-directed behaviors. Consumers may be eager to self-improve when they receive initial negative feedback, repeated negative feedback exposure may undermine their confidence in their ability to self-repair, resulting in less motivated to pursue proving goals https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/jacr/pr/200526?mobileui=0 5 comments science
- Early 20th century tactical, operational, and organizational reforms in US police departments resulted from imperial feedback. Police borrowed tactics, techniques, and organizational templates from America’s imperial military regime that had been developed to conquer and rule foreign populations. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/708464 3 comments science
- White Americans who are raised in proximity to black Americans adopt more negative racial attitudes. However, whether white Americans currently live near black Americans does not affect their views on race. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/706461 19 comments science
- "The positive relationship between tax cuts and employment growth is largely driven by tax cuts for lower-income groups and that the effect of tax cuts for the top 10 percent on employment growth is small." https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/701424 2347 comments science
- "Anti–Muslim American sentiment is a strong and significant predictor of supporting Trump, even when controlling for a whole host of factors." https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/700001 113 comments science
- Relative to the 1960s, families share increasingly similar political views today. The principal reason for this is that mate selection is increasingly based on political beliefs. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/698929 36 comments science
- "Whereas explicit racial rhetoric once seemed aversive to large swaths of American society, such messages are no longer as widely rejected." https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/694845 14 comments science
- Electoral gender quotas which cause substantial increases in women’s parliamentary representation lead to increased government expenditures toward public health and relative decreases in military spending. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/697251?journalcode=jop 6 comments science
- When a white candidate makes vague statements, voters project their own policy positions onto the candidate, increasing their support. But black candidates who make vague statements are punished for doing so by racially prejudiced voters. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/696619 70 comments science
- New research reveals that phenotypic plasticity is an age-specific and sex-specific phenomenon: juveniles in early life and males shortly prior to reproduction appear to be most plastic [model system: cichlids] http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/696264 3 comments science
- In 2013, NYC police stopped using the “stop, question, and frisk” method and mandated instead that officers provide thorough justifications for stopping suspects. This led to far fewer detainments of innocent people and increased the ratio of stops producing evidence of the suspected crime. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/694393?journalcode=jop 51 comments science
- Cities with a larger share of black city residents generate a greater share of local revenue from fines and court fees, but this relationship diminishes when there is black representation on city councils. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/691354 1557 comments science
- Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/691462 3 comments science
- The mere presence of your smartphone reduces brain power. Researchers conducted experiments with nearly 800 smartphone users in an attempt to measure, for the first time, how well people can complete tasks when they have their smartphones nearby even when they're not using them. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/691462 27 comments science
- New archival evidence suggests that Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was written as a 1381 poll tax parody http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/692620 75 comments history
- Contemporary differences in political attitudes in part trace their origins to slavery's prevalence. Whites who currently live in Southern counties that had high shares of slaves in 1860 are more likely to identify as a Republican, oppose affirmative action, and express racial resentment. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/686631 9 comments science
- Study of over 77,000 federal cases finds that blacks, men, and persons with little education are sentenced more harshly. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/320276?journalcode=jle 4 comments reddit.com