Check the divorce rates in each state for women with college degrees compared to those with no degree and maybe the same for women in so-called professional positions versus non-professionals.
Witness the difference between engineering salaries for those with little experience compared to those with 10 to 20 years' experience: The experienced jobs tend to pay 55% to 60% higher.
Further research might compare how individuals with healthy brains differ in their musical listening compared to people with autism or other brain disorders, Abrams said.
Governors Jindal, McCrory and Heineman cite the growing evidence that states with low or no income taxes have done better economically in recent decades compared to states with income-tax rates of 10% or more.
While the individual market has been relatively small (about 19 million people, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute) compared to those with employer-based coverage (about 156 million), most honest analysts expect millions of employers to drop coverage and dump their employees into the individual market.
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Can you point to nations that have prospered with protectionism, particularly when compared to similar nations with free trade?
But, surprisingly, getting the economy to improve is the easy bit, compared to dealing with some of the social changes.
Compared to women with no children, mothers earn less, get hired and promoted less, and get held to more exacting standards of performance.
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These high-risk teens were also 27 percent more likely to become addicted to nicotine and 22 percent more likely to fail quit-smoking attempts as adults, when compared to teens with lower scores.
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He also previously ran the Medicaid program in Virginia, where recent research has shown significant deficiencies in the health outcomes of Medicaid recipients, even when compared to those with no insurance at all.
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Back in March, I wrote about the Health Tracking Study Physician Survey, which showed that internists are 8.5 times as likely to reject all Medicaid patients, as compared to those with private insurance.
"Population studies have shown that if you eat fruits and vegetables, your chances of cancers are relatively low compared to people with deficient diets, " confirmed internist Aditya Bardia, an oncology fellow at Johns Hopkins University.
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Compared to those with a score of 0 ideal health metrics, participants with a score of 3 had a 25 percent lower occurrence of cancer, and participants with a score of 6-7 had a 51 percent lower cancer risk.
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So it seems to me that Summers should be demonstrating substantially more humility here on the subject of encouraging financial innovation, when countries which constrained it did pretty well during the crisis compared to those with a deregulatory philosophy and when very wise minds like Paul Volcker are credibly arguing that financial innovation almost never adds real economic value.
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For example, 21% of marketers prefer to interact with brands on Facebook compared to 31% of consumers with a smartphone and 26% of consumers who do not own a smartphone.
As an example simvastatin taken daily with a 7 ounce glass of grapefruit juice, can result in up to a 330 percent higher concentration of drug in the body compared to taking it with water alone, potentially leading to a serious and and potentially life threatening complication called rhabdomyolysis which can lead to kidney failure.
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Evidence from America suggests that automatic enrolment, with a voluntary opt-out, is likely to boost participation sharply compared with requiring people to opt in.
Each staff member watches over 6 to 8 children, compared with up to 30 at other orphanages, and pays special attention to one child at a time.
While they report significant progress over the past few years, most say their organizations do not have a repeatable process for extracting value from innovation and do not devote enough resources to it compared with running day-to-day operations.
Although women in their 40s have a lower incidence of breast cancer compared with older women, the window to detect tumors before they become symptomatic is shorter (2 to 2.4 years) compared with women ages 70 to 74 (4 to 4.1 years), the authors of the ACOG guidelines said.
According to IBM, sentiment on the topic of gasoline prices, which have declined recently, is more positive than last year, with a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative mentions in 2012 compared with a 1 to 1 ratio in 2011.
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In 2011, 8.7% of UK exports went to the Brics, compared with 6% to Ireland.
The dropout rate ranges from 15% to 50%, compared with 3% to 4% for cancer and cardiovascular trials.
This is because only 16% of the area's exports go to America, compared with almost 50% to the rest of Europe.
For instance, the Credit Suisse Research Institute recently reported that net income growth over the past six years averaged 14% for companies with women directors compared to 10% for those with no female board members.
And 1 May will see the launch of the Attheraces TV channel, a joint operation with Sky and Channel 4, with rights to broadcast racing from 49 courses, compared with the 10 signed to rival the Racing Channel.
Even in the late-2000s recession, Hublot was considered to be successful, with sales down 15 percent up to November 2009 compared with 30 percent for the entire Swiss luxury watch business.
We found this group more prepared to vote for a Democratic candidate for Congress in their district 45% to 31% (compared with 41% to 38% overall).
They found that most were cured within three weeks, compared to 28 weeks with conventional treatment.
Both Democrats say the differences between them are small, compared to their differences with Republicans.
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