The cause of banking crises since the debacle in the 1980s remains unchanged. Incentives encourage executives to take excessive risks, with few consequences if bets turn bad. It’s happening again.
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Loneliness and social isolation are some of the strongest predictors of poor health. But many studies informing Canada’s new alcohol guidelines don’t consider social connection at all.
The risk of dying changes over the course of a lifetime. Very high at birth, it falls and then gradually rises again… except for a peak after adolescence. Why such a statistical anomaly?
Religiosity has been associated with lower alcohol, drug use and risky sexual behaviours in young people in the Western Cape.
After Columbine, teens weren’t taking to the streets to call for more gun regulations. So what’s changed?
When after-school clubs aren’t properly monitored, they can become risky spaces.
People aren’t the perfectly rational, number-crunching risk-takers that traditional theory suggests. Research shows a whole variety of factors feed into risk-taking.
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Professor of Economics, Tasmanian Behavioural Lab, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer, Demography and Population Studies, Schools of Social Sciences and Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Technology Sydney
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Reader, University of the Witwatersrand
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Chief Specialist Scientist : Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council
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Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
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Adjunct Assistant professor of Economics, University of Rochester
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Docteur, spécialiste des migrations et en démographie historique, University of Groningen
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Assistant Professor in Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Docteur, spécialiste des méthodes de prévision (mortalité, longévité, etc.), Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques)
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Associate Dean of Faculty, Minerva University
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Docteur, spécialiste en santé des populations, Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, Minerva University
