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| How helping disabled people find employment affects the job market
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 Policy makers have long been concerned with helping people on disability benefits find some employment as this group has grown dramatically in recent decades. In the UK, as in several other countries, there are now many more people on disability benefits than on unemployment benefits. The chances of leaving disability benefits once someone is enrolled is low and although many disabled people cannot work at all, many others would like to have some access to the labor market, such as part-time employment. Introducing performance rewards for public employment service staff may be a cost-effective way to help the disabled find jobs. The UK Jobcentre Plus reform introduced modern management practices into the welfare system. Similar incentive schemes have been associated with substantial productivity gains in the private sector. The reform offered caseworkers greater career rewards if they successfully placed benefit recipients into work. Jobcentre Plus was introduced at different times in different districts ...
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| Vegan Professor at War With College to Save 9 Baby Lambs From Slaughter
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 Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Youtube Like any good story, this one begins on an early spring day in a peaceful meadow full of fruit, vegetables—and most importantly, nine baby lambs. Dr. David Nibert, a sociology professor at Wittenberg University, stumbled upon the lambs in May, while strolling near the campus of Antioch College, a private liberal arts school in the western Ohio town of Yellow Springs. "You know what it's like when you see a puppy who's lost, or a baby kitten? Who knows what happened to them, and they're without their mothers," said Nibert. "I just sat down and spent some time with them—these gentle, innocent animals." Read more at The Daily Beast. Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here
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| How memories form and fade
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 Caltech researchers identify the neural processes that make some memories fade rapidly while other memories persist over time.
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| Children of incarcerated parents have more substance abuse, anxiety
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| Children of incarcerated parents are six times more likely to develop a substance use disorder in adulthood and nearly twice as likely to have diagnosable anxiety compared to children whose parents were not incarcerated, according to new research from the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University.
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| Сотрудники ВШЭ опубликовали письмо о "политическом нейтралитете"
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 Более 50 сотрудников Высшей школы экономики (НИУ ВШЭ) подписали открытое письмо, в котором назвали политический нейтралитет, академические и гражданские свободы базовыми ценностями вуза. Об этом в Facebook сообщил профессор факультета социальных наук Марк Урнов (пост доступен только друзьям). Письмо подписали в том числе профессор факультета экономических наук Константин Сонин, научный руководитель Института образования ВШЭ Исаак Фрунин, ведущий научный сотрудник и директор Центра трудовых исследований университета Владимир Гимпельсон.
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| Addressing causes of mortality in Zambia
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| Despite the fact that people in sub-Saharan Africa are now living longer than they did two decades ago, their average life expectancy remains below that of the rest of the world population. A new study looked into the importance of various causes of death in Zambia and how eliminating the most prominent of these would impact life expectancy in the country.
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