Breastfeeding for Longer Associated With Improved Cognitive Scores
Breastfeeding duration is linked with improved cognitive scores at ages 5 through 14, even after controlling for socioeconomic position and maternal cognitive ability, according to…
Socioeconomics
Digital Divide: Data Portal Highlights Internet Inequities in Chicago
In an effort to reduce disparities, the University of Chicago Data Science Institute launches a data portal to guide research, policy, and community action. The…
Identifying Global Poverty From Space – Estimating Worldwide Economic Wellbeing
Despite successes in reducing poverty globally in the last two decades, almost one billion people still live without access to reliable and affordable electricity, which…
Social Vulnerability: ZIP Codes Matter When It Comes to Severe COVID-19
Patients from more socially vulnerable areas were sicker when they got to hospitals, but did just as well by the time they left – suggesting…
Barred From Employment: Most Unemployed Young Men Have Criminal Records
Findings suggested new approach needed to aid the unemployed. More than half of unemployed American men in their 30s have a history of being arrested…
Eating Vegetables Does NOT Protect Against Heart Disease
Large-scale study finds that eating vegetables does not protect against cardiovascular disease. Previous positive studies may not have sufficiently corrected for confounding socioeconomic and lifestyle…
Climate Change Set To Send Costs of Flooding Soaring – Pioneering Research Forecasts Financial Toll
Climate change could result in the financial toll of flooding rising by more than a quarter in the United States by 2050 – and disadvantaged…
MIT Field Experiment: A “Big Push” To Lift People Out of Poverty
MIT field experiment from India finds a one-time economic boost helps the very poor fare better for at least a decade. A field experiment in…
Depression Rates Tripled and Symptoms Intensified During First Year of COVID-19 Pandemic
People with lower incomes and who experienced multiple COVID-related stressors were more likely to feel the toll of the pandemic, as the socioeconomic inequities in…
Want To Play Varsity College Sports? A Wealthy Family Helps
Athletic talent isn’t all that is needed to succeed, study finds. It takes more than athletic talent to play varsity sports in college, at least…
Extra 267,000 Infant Deaths in 2020 as a Result of COVID-19 Economic Downturn
Figures correspond to nearly 7% more than expected, show World Bank economist estimates. An extra 267,000 infants will likely have died in 2020 in low…
Privilege and Politics Influence Vaccine’s Racial Disparity – “Structural Inequities Pose a Serious Threat To Progress”
Researchers break down social factors behind differing black, white COVID-19 vaccination rates. Income, educational attainment, and political ideology all play into racial disparities in vaccination…
Pandemic Layoffs Pushed Hospitality Workers to Leave Industry – “The Younger Generation Was Really Hit Hard”
The psychological toll of losing a job due to COVID-19 caused many young hotel and restaurant workers to consider changing careers, according to a Washington…
Allocating COVID Vaccines Based on Health and Socioeconomic Factors Could Cut Save Lives
Study suggests spatial relationship between COVID-19 mortality and population-level health factors. An estimated 43 percent of the variability in U.S. COVID-19 mortality is linked with…
Streetonomics: Quantifying a City’s Cultural Values Using Street Names
A city’s street names can provide a glimpse into its cultural value system and a way to quantify cultural indicators, according to a study published…
COVID-19 Fallout Threatens Global Coffee Industry
COVID-19’s socio-economic effects will likely cause another severe production crisis in the coffee industry, according to a Rutgers University-led study. The study, which appears in…
Profiting on Crisis: How Shadow Banks Have Exploited the COVID-19 Pandemic
Rather than leveling inequality, as the Great Depression did, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequalities around the world allowing some wealthy investors to benefit from…
Stanford’s New Open-Source Software for Designing Sustainable Cities
New technology could help cities around the world improve people’s lives while saving billions of dollars. The free, open-source software developed by the Stanford Natural Capital Project creates maps…
