Our latest work
How many people in the world die from cancer?
Learning for our Millennium? The changing face of education access, quality and uptake in Ethiopia
Child maltreatment and educational outcomes
A sense of units and scale for electrical energy production and consumption
How new vaccines can help with our antibiotic dependence
How do we reduce antibiotic resistance from livestock?
How many people does synthetic fertilizer feed?
Are emerging economies deindustrializing too quickly?
Measurement Matters – The decline of maternal mortality
Is organic really better for the environment than conventional agriculture?
Working women: Key facts and trends in female labor force participation
Working women: What determines female labor force participation?
How much of the world’s land would we need in order to feed the global population with the average diet of a given country?
Historical poverty reductions: more than a story about ‘free-market capitalism’
Income inequality and happiness inequality: a tale of two trends
Collective pessimism and our inability to guess the happiness of others
“Life Expectancy” – What does this actually mean?
Yields vs. Land Use: How the Green Revolution enabled us to feed a growing population
Is globalization an engine of economic development?
What was the death toll from Chernobyl and Fukushima?
When we think of nuclear safety, two accidents often come to mind: Chernobyl and Fukushima. What was the death toll and impact of these disasters?