The young boy grieved - and concluded that academic studies might be relevant for mortal life, but "greater success" would be found in entering paradise.
What I saw while reporting in Iraq jibed with academic studies concluding that a wealth of natural resources did a country more harm than good.
For many years, there has been a steady flow of academic studies concluding that the one important, controllable variable for achieving good investment results is cost.
Other academic studies have concluded that housekeepers have a high injury rate because they do repetitive tasks, lift heavy mattresses and work rapidly to clean a dozen or more rooms.
Discrimination and stigmatising of minority ethnic groups has, at the same time, increased and academic studies have concluded that the targeted use of traditional policing methods is more effective than injunctions at dealing with gang violence.
Several academic studies have concluded that long-run returns are lower for art and other collectibles than for either stocks or bonds, and it is easy to see why.
And academic studies have concluded that sin stocks perform better as a group than stocks of virtuous companies, at least before factoring in the extra risks to investing in companies that are frequent targets of litigation and boycotts.
Drawing from academic studies, Cloonan concluded that the fund should have broad diversification across industries and should emphasize companies trading at low multiples of book value.
There were certainly some rural, conservative districts where Cap-and-Trade played a role, but two separate academic studies have concluded that while voting for the Health Care reform has a significant negative impact on Democratic incumbents, a vote for Cap-and-Trade had little statistically significant impact on vote choice in most districts.
The White House's top economists wrote in a blog post Wednesday that "the bulk of academic studies, have concluded that the effects on employment of minimum wage increases in the range now under consideration are likely to be small to nonexistent".
Perhaps for good reason: In 1976, an academic study concluded that "rats with high blood pressure should not ride the subways too often or too long: the stress of noise, vibration, and crowding may kill some of them before their time".
