* Alicia H. Munnell is the director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (CRR) and the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. April Yanyuan Wu is a research economist at the CRR. The research reported herein was performed pursuant to a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts. The authors would like to thank Laura Quinb...

Issues in Ecology is designed to report, in language understandable by non-scientists, the consensus of a panel of scientific experts on issues relevant to the environment. Issues in Ecology was initially supported by the Pew Scholars in Conservation Biology program and is currently supported by the Ecological Society of America. It is published at irregular intervals, as reports are completed....

This is one in a series of papers in the Retirement Security Project supported by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts.1 The Retirement Security Project is intended to bolster financial security for America's aging population by raising retirement savings and improving long-term care insurance products. It brings together pension researchers and health care experts to undertake nonpartisan re...

the general population has changed since the 1950s [1]. Hyperuricemia was originally considered to be a consequence of renal insufficiency and associated with a variety of cardiovascular diseases, and several studies suggested that hyperuricemia can cause hypertension, renal insufficiency and metabolic syndrome. However, the role of serum uric acid remains unclear in the maintenance hemodialysi...

Usingmicro-level public opinion data from the Pew Global Attitudes Project 2005, this study investigates the effect of educational attainment and income on support for democracy in five predominantly Muslim countries: Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Turkey. Holding all else constant and compared to not finishing primary education, this study finds that secondary education andhigher ed...

According to a 2008 Pew report, 97% of American teens aged 12-17 play computer, console, or cell phone games, and three-fourths of these teens play them with others at least some of the time (Lenhart et al. 2008). 93% use the Internet, 61% go online daily, and 51% create content that others can view online (Lenhart et al. 2007). Eleven million students under the age of 18 use MySpace (Owyang 20...

I would like to thank my advisors, Joel Mokyr, Joe Ferrie, and Joe Altonji, for their helpful comments. I also benefited from conversations with Henry Siu, Jim Sullivan and Chris Taber, and from input from workshop participants at Northwestern University and participants of the 2002 All-UC Group in Economic History Conference and the 2002 Cliometrics Conference. Justin Hayes and Humphrey Southa...

n engl j med 365;20 nejm.org november 17, 2011 1856 favor increased federal spending on health care (22% vs. 56%) and scientific research (28% vs. 46%) (Pew Research Center 2011). This analysis suggests that if the leaders of the two political parties focus mostly on responding to their own adherents’ views, their differences could affect future federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research,...