Articles by alphabetatango
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We don't know why Malawi is poor (deenamousa.com)

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You're ignoring most of the world – Which countries get attention by the numbers (timhirschelburns.substack.com)

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The Value of Reliable Statistics (nber.org)

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Short and Long-Term Consequences of Intra-Household Disease Spread [pdf] (nber.org)

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Most people care about farm animals – our food system doesn't reflect that (ourworldindata.org)

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Reflections on Vibe Researching (joshuagans.substack.com)

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How much Brits worry about the automation of their work (yougov.com)

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An interactive map of river basins and watersheds of North and South America (python-maps-vis.vercel.app)

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Brazil, India and Russia hold large reserves of rare earth but don't mine them (ourworldindata.org)

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Time-lapse of continental drift over the last 750M years (observablehq.com)

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What are the deadliest animals and can we protect ourselves against them? (ourworldindata.org)

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Study: Proximity to nuclear power plants linked with increased cancer mortality (hsph.harvard.edu)

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In 2025 solar and wind produced more electricity than fossil fuels in the EU (ourworldindata.org)

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Solar panels on land used for biofuels could power all cars and trucks electric (ourworldindata.org)

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METR Clarifying limitations of time horizon (metr.org)

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The Tragedy of the Agentic Commons (aleximas.substack.com)

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How have crime rates in the United States changed over the last 50 years? (ourworldindata.org)

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Bees are more than just honeybees (hannahritchie.substack.com)

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Some parts of Europe have a growing population, while others are shrinking (ourworldindata.org)

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Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines (ycombinator.com)

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Ten key insights from development economics in 2025 (voxdev.org)

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The most viewed charts and articles from Our World in Data (ourworldindata.org)

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Reforming trade policy boosted firm productivity in China (voxdev.org)

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Growth of global GDP per head has been remarkably steady over the past 3 decades (ourworldindata.org)

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Politics in the US Workplace – research project on politics in the workplace (politicsatwork.org)

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Econ Lit Search – a tool to search full text of papers from AER, AEJ, NBER (paulgp.com)

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A century of progress in access to primary education (ourworldindata.org)

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Use of GLP-1 injectables for weight loss has more than doubled since early 2024 (gallup.com)

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Shifts in US Social Media Use 2020-24: Decline, Fragmentation, and Polarization (arxiv.org)

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World Bank Restructuring: A Retreat from Research Quality? (cgdev.org)

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New UN Global Forest Assessment – understanding long-term trends in forests (fao.org)

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China Went from Clean Energy Copycat to Global Innovator (nytimes.com)

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Data-enhanced article showing how bird migration is changing (theguardian.com)

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The State of Obesity Report 2025 – Trends in obesity [pdf] (tfah.org)

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How to save Madagascar's dwindling forests (economist.com)

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An interactive table with the religious composition in 201 countries (pewresearch.org)

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What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on (ourworldindata.org)

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The Catholic Church Has a Manpower Problem: Fewer Priests Every Year (wsj.com)

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The rapid scale- up of overseas Chinese clean-tech manufacturing investments (netzeropolicylab.com)

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A common bacterium that can reduce the spread of dengue fever (ourworldindata.org)

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Does China Underconsume? (global-developments.org)

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Food impacts on species extinction risks (nature.com)

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Stroke centres in England given AI tool that will help 50% of patients recover (theguardian.com)

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California’s driverless taxis transport passengers for more than 4m miles/month (ourworldindata.org)

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Perceived Importance of College Hits New Low (gallup.com)

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Global inequality is huge – but so is the opportunity to support the poor (ourworldindata.org)

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Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine (asimov.press)

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How much energy does Google's AI use? We did the math (cloud.google.com)

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Intergenerational Income Mobility Around the World: A New Database (worldbank.org)

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The biggest victory against animal cruelty of the 21st century, in one chart (vox.com)

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A new poverty line shifted the World Bank's poverty data (ourworldindata.org)

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Meat Taxes Are Super Risky. Maybe We Can Make Them Work (bjornjohannolafsson.substack.com)

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Deaths from cardiovascular disease have fallen – the breakthroughs behind this (ourworldindata.org)

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Growing more food does not mean we always need more and more inputs (sustainabilitybynumbers.com)

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Paying to pollute: How carbon offsets raised emissions in China (voxdev.org)

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The limits of our personal experience and the value of statistics (ourworldindata.org)

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Rising Wealth Inequality and Democratic Backsliding Across U.S. States (osf.io)

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Are Environmental Concerns Deterring People from Having Children? [pdf] (iza.org)

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Views of the U.S. have worsened while opinions of China have improved in surveys (pewresearch.org)

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Causal effect of video gaming on mental well-being in Japan 2020–2022 (2024) (nature.com)

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There's over half billion mobile money accounts in the world, mostly in Africa (ourworldindata.org)

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Comparing the Climate and Productivity Impacts of a Shrinking Population (nber.org)

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How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence (pewresearch.org)

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Measles leaves children vulnerable to other diseases for years (ourworldindata.org)

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New World Bank classification of countries by income groups (worldbank.org)

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Young Europeans losing faith in democracy, poll finds (theguardian.com)