Analysing hundreds of millions of US job ads from 2014 to 2022, economists find the skill profiles of 1,326 occupations grew steadily more alike. Pairs of jobs that converged saw their wage gaps narrow and more workers move between them.
Tiny technological particles could drift across the Galaxy and settle on the Moon. Finding none in a cubic metre of lunar soil would rule out Sun-like stars typically shedding more than about a tenth of an Earth mass of durable debris.
An analysis of 8 million congressional speeches from 1879 to 2022 finds evidence-based language peaked in the mid-1970s and has declined ever since, tracking rising polarization, rising inequality and falling legislative productivity.
In a national survey of 843 veterans and 820 matched non-veterans, 13% of veterans strongly supported using force to return Trump to the presidency, against 7% of non-veterans. The gap was driven by veterans reporting combat trauma, PTSD or disillusionment with service.
Four years of tweets around the 2016 US election show women and men discussed politics at comparable rates regardless of resources, and both women of color and white women posted more when gender was a hot political topic.
In a national sample of 2,916 Israeli Jews, health and well-being rose step by step from secular to ultra-Orthodox on eight of nine measures. Life satisfaction averaged 7.07 out of 10 among secular Jews and 8.87 among charedim.
In an experiment where advisers and receivers shared the same incentives, women were more reluctant than men to give advice on difficult questions. Ability did not explain the gap, confidence explained only part of it, and it disappeared when advice became enforceable.
In an experiment with 147 children aged 5 to 10, feedback suggesting they were gender-atypical made all children worry about judgment, but only younger girls and older boys acted more gender-typical, and only boys avoided anything feminine.
More press coverage of a firm strongly predicts weaker fundamentals, earnings surprises and higher odds of bankruptcy, dividend cuts and delistings, a Management Science study finds, as the financial press tilts toward negative news.
Five nationally representative surveys from 2002 to 2019 show Chinese democratic values declined in the 2010s, the Xi Jinping era, and that Generation Z does not hold stronger democratic beliefs than earlier cohorts. People born 1971 to 1985 stand out for backing independent branches of government.