Today's Data Insight, by Saloni & Fiona Spooner What’s the leading cause of death in each country? Find all of our Data Insights on their dedicated feed: ourworldindata.org/data-insights

Global population growth peaked six decades ago Today's data insight is by Esteban Ortiz-Ospina. You can find all of our Data Insights on their dedicated feed: ourworldindata.org/data-insights

The Child Tax Credit likely improved child health and well-being in the short and long run, with greater impacts for poor children, from Anna Aizer, Adriana Lleras-Muney, and Katherine Michelmore nber.org/papers/w32609

New work: Natasha Pilkauskas Katherine Michelmore & N. Kovski show that “2021 CTC reforms improved housing affordability for families with low incomes” & allowed them to ↓ the # residing in hholds & ↓ past-due rent or mortgage. Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy University of MichiganPoverty UM Population Studies Center @UMich ow.ly/HIUF50SzKv9

The average worker in wealthy countries now works only about half as many hours per year as in the late 19th century. Based on data from economic historians Michael Huberman and Chris Minns, the average worker used to work between 2,700 and 3,500 hours per year, which is about

And special congratulations to the four researchers at Lund University receiving the grant! We are very proud of Ingrid van Dijk – LUSEM’s very first researcher awarded the ERC Starting Grant for her research into ”relative health”. Learn more: lusem.lu.se/article/erc-st… #ERCStG

Vaccines account for 40% of the decline in infant mortality over the last 50 years. Infant mortality rates have plummeted over the last 50 years. Globally, they’ve fallen by over two-thirds, from around 10% in 1974 to less than 3% today. A recent study — published in The Lancet