Young people exposed to an epidemic have less trust in political institutions for the rest of their lives

Poor public health policy leads to deeper distrust, further undermining the effectiveness of public health policy, write Cevat Giray Aksoy, Barry Eichengreen and Orkun Sak

How your sexual orientation affects your salary

Research on the relationship between sexual orientation and labour market earning has relied either on surveys with small samples of sexual minorities, or has used large samples of same-sex couples, often with sample discrepancies. Drawing on a large individual-level dataset, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Christopher S. Carpenter and Jefferson Frank find that in the UK gay men earn less than straight ones and heterosexual women earn less than lesbians