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How to map Israel’s fractious politics (opens the original)
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What having a daughter does to a boss (opens the original)
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Women across the rich world still earn 12% less than men. Schemes designed to narrow the gap—such as quotas and diversity training—often backfire. But a paper published in the Review of Economic Studies, a journal, found something that does change how male managers perceive women in the workplace: having a daughter.Nina Smith of Aarhus University and Maddalena Ronchi of Northwestern University used administrative records to track every worker and company in Denmark between 1992 and 2017. They f
High petrol prices could hand Democrats a mighty midterm victory (opens the original)
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American political lore holds that general-election campaigns begin in earnest after Labour Day in early September. Donald Trump’s political-action committees have noted the calendar, booking $138m of spending in competitive midterm races after mostly sitting out the summer. Yet rather than showing a tightening race, polls so far this month have shifted further in Democrats’ favour. Our midterm forecast now gives the opposition a 93% chance of flipping the House of Representatives, up from 77% i
Welcome to the statistical dollhouse (opens the original)
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Donald Trump’s disintegrating coalition (opens the original)
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