Divorce represents the dissolution of a social tie, but it is also possible that attitudes about divorce flow across social ties. To explore how social networks influence divorce and vice versa, we exploit a longitudinal data set from the long-running Framingham Heart Study. The results suggest that divorce can spread between friends. Clusters of divorces extend to two degrees of separation in ...

The rate and speed with which cancer biology discoveries translate into clinical practice have importance for oncologists, researchers, policy makers. A prior study found that among 101 science articles claiming a highly promising result translation, only 19 of (18.8%) interventions had positive randomized trials, whereas five been licensed use median follow-up 12 years.1Contopoulos-Ioannidis D...

The absence of a gendered analysis the effect marriage on voting is surprising given researchers’ cognizance heterogeneous effects range other social outcomes. In this paper, we shed new light spousal dependency by studying marital disruption, in form divorce, voter turnout. First, drawing Swedish populationwide data, use differential timing divorces relation to general elections generate more ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence in the general population of parents' concerns about the development of their child, to identify groups at risk and to assess the association between parents' concerns and professional judgement. METHODS We obtained cross-sectional data on a Dutch nationally representative sample of children aged 14 months, 3 3/4, 5-6 and 8-12 year...