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New Research from Assistant Professor Yana Gallen on Labor Market Returns to Delaying Pregnancy

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Using health and labor market data from Sweden, the authors study the labor market outcomes of childless Swedish women who become pregnant while using long-acting reversible contraceptives.
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Situational Decision-Making Study from Crime Lab Shows How Behavioral Science Can Improve Policing

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The Crime Lab and the Chicago Police Department (CPD) partnered to create and evaluate a behavioral science-informed training that helps improve officer decision-making in ambiguous, high-stress situations.
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University of Chicago Education Lab Study Finds Restorative Practices Decrease Student Arrests In and Outside School

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Chicago Public Schools saw a 35 percent reduction in arrests in school and a 15 percent reduction in out-of-school arrests for students at schools that implemented Restorative Practices.
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Many Factors Come Into Play When Deciding the Cause of Degenerate Autocracy, Study Finds

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The authors offer a dynamic model of non-democratic politics, in which repression and bad decision-making are self-reinforcing.
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UChicago Harris/NORC Poll: About Half the Public Believes Russia is the Sole Perpetrator of War Crimes in the Ukraine-Russian Conflict

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Majorities of both Democrats and Republicans have negative views of Russia’s actions during the war, but most have positive perceptions of the Russian people.
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U.S. Fishing Policy is Boosting Fish Populations, Not Constraining Most Fisheries

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Despite being stalled in Congress, a pair of studies finds the cornerstone fishing policy in the United States is doing its job: rebuilding threatened fish populations to double their size, while not holding back most fishers from making their catch.