Health inequality is not only about who reaches a health facility. It is also about what happens once patients are inside the consultation room.
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Fixating on sleep can make your sleep worse. But some people crave the connection online sleep communities provide.
Canada’s official poverty measure only focuses on income and ignores other important factors, meaning there are millions of Canadians living in poverty that are ignored by the measure.
Researchers consider how friendships that bridge across social class – “cross-class friendships” – contribute to middle school academic achievement differences based on level of parents’ education.
Selective schools aim to give all gifted students, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, opportunities they may not have had otherwise. But that’s not what’s actually happening.
The chances of your genetic data being recorded by the state depend on who you are.
Although fewer Australian teens planned on going to university or TAFE than 15 years ago, figures were still higher than the OECD average.
Economics isn’t just about money – it offers ways to tackle many of our problems. But economists lack diversity, and that limits how they see the world and the solutions they offer.
Big new accountancy survey highlights the limitations in UK government’s approach to pay gap reporting.
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Deputy CEO (Research), Australian Council for Educational Research
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Associate Professor of Economics, Adelaide University
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Professor in Accounting, University of Glasgow
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Researcher, Centre for the Study of Legacies of British Slave-Ownership, UCL
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Lecturer in Accounting and Finance, University of Glasgow
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SHARP Professor, Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW
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Associate professor in Social and Political Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Health Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Health Economics, Global Health Economics Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine