Social Sciences

Across America, the pandemic threw into sharp relief the challenges that parents—particularly mothers—face when balancing work with child rearing. But for professor Claudia Olivetti, that tension has been her life’s work.This post was originally published […]

Loneliness is on the rise in the U.S., with a third of Americans reporting they’ve experienced “serious loneliness” in recent years. Lonely people are twice as likely to become depressed, and loneliness is a key […]

New University of Virginia research is pinpointing when young children begin recognizing what they believe to be unfair treatment in the classroom.This post was originally published on this site

Screen use and internet safety are two of the top concerns Australian parents have about their kids’ health and well-being—even ranking ahead of diet, exercise and depression.This post was originally published on this site

We all know what words we might shout out when we stub a toe or touch something hot. For those of us who speak English, it’s probably “ouch.”This post was originally published on this site

There is a seemingly endless stream of news headlines about plummeting birth rates. Many have alarmist narratives about the perils of “baby busts” and “population decline.” This reflects a deep-seated anxiety about what declining birth […]

While death, dying and bereavement are universal life events, the social conditions under which death takes place are fundamental in shaping how it is experienced by the individual.This post was originally published on this site

When academics and other researchers need to recruit people for large-scale surveys, they often rely upon crowdsourcing sites like Prolific or Amazon Mechanical Turk. Participants sign up to provide demographic information and opinions in exchange […]

Women entrepreneurs are essential for the Canadian economy, a fact recognized by the government’s Women Entrepreneurship Strategy. This strategy was launched in 2018 and has seen nearly $7 billion be put toward supporting women-owned businesses […]

The term “social distancing” spread out across the public vocabulary in recent years as people around the world changed habits to combat the COVID pandemic. New research led by UT Professor Alex Bentley, however, reveals […]