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Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease

Exploring the Paradox of U.S. Hispanics’ Longer Life Expectancy

(2013) Despite having lower income and education levels, U.S. Hispanics tend to outlive non-Hispanic whites by several years.

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Project: KIDS COUNT

2008 KIDS COUNT Data Book: Well-Being of U.S. Children Improves in Some Ways, Slips in Others

(2008) National trends in child well-being have improved slightly since 2000, according to the 2008 KIDS COUNT Data Book.

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Migration’s Economic Tradeoffs: Farm Worker Wages and Food Costs

(2010) Migration is often characterized as either good or bad; migration is seen as a benefit for adding needed workers or blamed for depressing wages. In reality, most public policy choices are heated debates about which of two "goods" deserves higher priority, with no easy way to balance the tradeoffs.

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PRB Discuss Online: A Call to Action, World Malaria Day 2009

(2009) Malaria threatens close to one-half of the world's population, and more than 1 million children die each year of malaria-related complications.

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Finding the Balance: Population and Water Scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa

(2002) The Middle East and North Africa (MENA)* is the most water-scarce region of the world. Home to 6.3 percent of the world's population, the region contains only 1.4 percent of the world's renewable fresh water.

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PRB Discuss Online: Americans at Work, What Lies Ahead?

(2008) The aging of baby boomers and the fact that women's labor force participation has already peaked are expected to slow U.S. labor force growth in the near future.

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The Demographic Transition: A Contemporary Look at a Classic Model

(2005) With the spread of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, dramatic changes began to occur in the populations of industrializing countries. But do the changes that occurred in Western Europe and the United States have relevance for modern countries just entering the industrial age?

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