Heather Howard
2018
Podcast Heather Howard March, 2018 Health Domestic and Social Policy External Link ...
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Heather Howard
2017
Heather Howard December, 2017 Health Domestic and Social Policy Download File ...
Julia Rubin
2017
Julia Rubin October, 2017 2017: S. Danley, S. and J. Rubin, “A Tale of Two Cities: Community Resistance to Market-Based Reforms in Camden and Newark, New Jersey,” in The Fight for America’s Schools Grassroots Organizing in Education, Barbara Ferman, ...
Julia Rubin
2017
Julia Rubin October, 2017 2017: Rubin, J., “Organizing Goes Statewide: The Case of Save Our Schools New Jersey,” in The Fight for America’s Schools Grassroots Organizing in Education, Barbara Ferman, editor, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. ...
Henrik Kleven
2017
ABSTRACT: We investigate the effect of house prices on household borrowing using administrative mortgage data from the UK and a new empirical approach. The data contain household-level information on house prices and borrowing in a panel of homeowners, ...
Marc Fleurbaey
2017
ABSTRACT: Future population growth is uncertain and matters for climate policy: higher growth entails more emissions and means more people will be vulnerable to climate-related impacts. We show that how future population is valued importantly determines ...
2017
Christina Davis September, 2017 Andreas Fuchs, Kristina Johnson Foreign Policy Trade International Political Economy and Trade Download File ...
Alexander Glaser
Frank von Hippel
2017
SUMMARY: Highly-enriched uranium presents a unique challenge from the nuclear security point of view. Because of its nuclear properties, HEU can be used relatively easily in a simple nuclear explosive device; it, therefore, poses signi cant danger with ...
Will Dobbie
2017
ABSTRACT: We study the drivers of financial distress using a large-scale field experiment that offered randomly selected borrowers a combination of (i) immediate payment reductions to target short-run liquidity constraints and (ii) delayed debt write ...
Marta Tienda
2017
Building on the premise that closing achievement gaps is an economic imperative both to regain international educational supremacy and to maintain global economic competitiveness, I ask whether it is possible to rewrite the social contract so that ...
Noreen Goldman
2017
This study examines whether frailty is associated with mortality independently of physiological dysregulation (PD) and, if so, which is the more accurate predictor of survival. Data come from the Social Environment and Biomarkers of Aging Study. We use ...
Janet Currie
2017
ABSTRACT: Using data on all opioid prescriptions written by physicians from 2006 to 2014, we uncover a striking relationship between opioid prescribing and medical school rank. Even within the same specialty and county of practice, physicians who ...
Sara McLanahan
2017
ABSTRACT: Recent research by Chetty and colleagues finds that children’s chances of upward mobility are affected by the communities in which they grow up [Chetty R, Hendren N (2016) Working paper 23002]. However, the developmental pathways through which ...
David Wilcove
2017
ABSTRACT: Lower-cost tropical forest restoration methods, particularly those framed as win–win business-protected area partnerships, could dramatically increase the scale of tropical forest restoration activities, thereby providing a variety of societal ...
Jessica Metcalf
2017
ABSTRACT: Climate change is likely to profoundly modulate the burden of infectious diseases. However, attributing health impacts to a changing climate requires being able to associate changes in infectious disease incidence with the potentially complex ...
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
2017
ABSTRACT: We study the urban structure of the City of Detroit. Following several decades of decline, the city's current urban structure is clearly not optimal for its size, with a business district immediately surrounded by a ring of largely vacant ...
Pietro Ortoleva
2017
ABSTRACT: Previous research has investigated the effects of violence and warfare on individuals' well-being, mental health, and individual prosociality and risk aversion. This study establishes the short- and long-term effects of exposure to violence ...
Elizabeth Levy Paluck
2017
ABSTRACT: We propose that institutions such as the U.S. Supreme Court can lead individuals to update their perceptions of social norms, in contrast to the mixed evidence on whether institutions shape individuals’ personal opinions. We studied reactions to ...
Janet Currie
2017
ABSTRACT: Higher asthma rates are one of the more obvious ways that health inequalities between African American and other children are manifested beginning in early childhood. In 2010, black asthma rates were double non-black rates. Some but not all of ...
Noreen Goldman
2017
We consider a broad set of variables used by social scientists and clinicians to identify the leading predictors of five‐year survival among American adults. We address a question not considered in earlier research: Do the strongest predictors of survival ...
