A database of pre-industrial sampling supports historical and ethnographic research
The narrative of a growing cultural divide, while partly true, conceals a more nuanced picture
Study of a large corporation explores how salary comparisons affect employee behavior
Revisiting research on Catholic clergy sex abuse: Pennsylvania can expect fewer churchgoers and a painful decline in charitable contributions
Using parish records, researchers examine fundamental changes in society following the French Revolution
Researchers struggle with faulty study designs, flyspecking each other’s work, re-arguing decades of debate about jobs and income
In Japan, speedier commutes let workers live farther from jobs, taking some pressure off high-priced housing markets
Post-World War II Poland provides a unique setting to study mobility and success
Taxes not high enough? An examination of Washington’s experience even suggests state ownership of pot stores might boost the public coffers
34,334 letters were sent to test how sensitive those owing back taxes are to neighbors’ knowledge of the debts
Research suggests such a connection when donations are publicized
Immigrants show saving tendencies that carry through several generations
Looking at costs, in a sample of 5,000 plants in Chile, remarkable productivity gains occur
Researchers take on the difficult job of isolating for-profit prisons from a host of other factors
A clue that parents prefer a son: They have more kids when their firstborn is a girl
Caribbean plantation owners, faced with slavery’s end, enacted legal barriers to employment elsewhere