Marcos Cabello
Reporter, Social Sciences and Business & Economics
@marcosacabMarcos Augusto Cabello, based in Boston, covers the Social Sciences and Business & Economics for The Academic Times. Prior to that, he obtained his Juris Doctor from Boston University School of Law and his bachelor’s degree in criminology and philosophy, with a minor in psychology, from Florida State University.
Even in largely atheistic China, religion is associated with higher levels of life satisfaction compared to those with no religious beliefs — an association that has the biggest effect among disadvantaged groups, according to new research.
Congress is working on child nutrition and school meal standards for the first time in nearly a decade, with a push to make permanent the COVID-era waivers that loosened school nutrition goals. But new research on the food consumption patterns of students at six Title I schools shows that the proposed rollbacks may not be a good idea.
When natural disasters strike, whether or not people in a community choose to evacuate may depend on the social ties present in that community, according to new research based on a 2018 earthquake in Japan.
Decreasing the gap in educational attainment between white and Black people may help reduce the racial pay gap, whereas ensuring that women receive the same returns on their education as men would reduce the gender pay gap, according to a new study that indicates fixing pay disparities in the U.S. isn't a one-size-fits-all solution.
For countries with high Islamic prevalence, giant oil and gas discoveries depress female workforce participation not because of the discoveries themselves but because of restrictions on women's mobility in many Muslim-majority countries, according to a new study that contradicts previous hypotheses.
Natural climate solutions could help Canada mitigate up to 78.2 teragrams of carbon dioxide per year, equivalent to the emissions associated with powering every home in Canada for 3 years, helping the country meet or exceed its goals under the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to new research published Friday.
COVID-19 had a smaller impact in terms of human lives lost in countries with past experience facing epidemics and natural disasters, but the data isn’t as clear when it comes to how these countries fared on the economic front, according to new research.
People living closer to the sites of terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom were more likely to vote to remain in the European Union during 2016's Brexit referendum, according to a new study analyzing how terrorism affects people's electoral preferences.
People who believe that soldiers join the military for intrinsic reasons — out of a sense of patriotism or duty — were more likely to approve of military missions and the use of military force, according to a new study that indicates how much rhetoric around soldiering matters to people's fundamental attitudes toward the military.
Precision mapping of child undernutrition for nearly 600,000 villages in India shows that policy decisions to treat child anthropometric failure, such as growth stunting, wasting and child underweight, should focus on villages, the smallest local governance unit in India, rather than districts.
Gossip is generally thought to be a bad thing, especially in the workplace, but a new study has found that positive gossip among teams can actually have some benefits, showing that the effects of gossip might be more nuanced than originally thought.
An examination into the underpinnings of science skepticism across 24 countries reveals that spirituality is associated with a lesser general faith in science, more so than religiosity — an effect stronger among Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic, or WEIRD, nations, according to new research.