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Association of Caregiver Mental Health and a Childhood Parenting Intervention in China

OBJECTIVES This study examines whether and how caregiver mental health symptoms influence the impacts of a center-based parenting intervention on child development. METHODS We conducted a clustered randomized controlled trial across 100 rural villages in China between 2016 and 20...

What Every PhD Student Should Know About Adam Smith

Widely known as the father of economics, Adam Smith lived in the eighteenth century. Smith was a polymath, and his magnum opus, The Wealth of Nations , is 250 years old this year. In this article, I suggest the nature of Smith's contribution to economics, moral philosophy, and po...

Concessions and Protest Demobilization

How and why do concessions, or promises to implement reform in the future, affect protest mobilization in autocracies? Concessions are a routine response to protest and generate a puzzling empirical regularity: Although autocrats often renege once protest abates, concessions can...