Muslims also gave more to causes tied to relief from economic and health problems that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Asking for input is more common than letting stakeholders help set a foundation’s priorities or giving them any say where grant money flows.
Vaccination campaigns like the ones that eventually eliminated polio and measles in the United States required decades of education and awareness in order to achieve herd immunity in the U.S. population.
Some suggest women’s lack of competitiveness relative to men is one reason for the persistent gap between how much men and women earn.
Overconfidence is often a contributing factor to market crashes, like the financial crisis of 2008.
Even after the #MeToo movement hit its stride, support for these organizations still made up only a sliver of all charitable donations in 2018.
Public investments in benefit programs could save tens of thousands of children from being victims of child abuse and have important later-life effects on child welfare and overall health.
A recent survey finds that the pandemic made it harder for many US households to put food on the table. It also changed the ways in which people buy and store food.
Even when the condition lasts a lifetime, there are behavioral treatments and prescription drugs that make it easier for people with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder to thrive.
Taking just one political science class makes college students more likely to show up at the polls, two researchers find.
Menstruating women who sleep less than six hours a night suffer worse periods. But leading treatments for insomnia rarely look at menstrual health.
Experiments in the US and Italy that observed people’s charitable choices found similar results: People tend to prefer to help local communities.
A dentist explains why this is a habit worth breaking – no matter the cause or the strength of your cravings to keep doing it.
Using a robust statistical model, researchers estimate that coronavirus vaccines had prevented 140,000 deaths by May 9, 2021.
A new study found that having a trusting manager made employees feel more positively about their work.
Whether you pay tax on your Halloween treat supply depends on which state you live in and how it defines candy.
New data suggests that lots of time on screens may even improve peer relationships. But the study comes with caveats.
Job creation might well have slowed, but a deeper dive into employment data suggests the picture is actually pretty rosy.
Teachers’ fondness for working with students grew in the early stages of the pandemic, according to a new study that provides a unique before-and-after glimpse at what duties teachers enjoyed most.
Part of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for work modeling Earth’s climate using its chaotic, complex weather. To scientists, chaos lies in the gray zone between randomness and predictability.
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