Droughts and the struggle to balance urban and rural water demands
2013 study on how the water supply and management strategies of four cities in the U.S. and Australia have evolved over time.
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“Community prosecution”: Chicago’s experience in reducing crime and incarceration rates
2013 study published in American Law and Economics Review on the effectiveness and operational mechanisms of community prosecution approaches.
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Impact of bullying in childhood on adult health, wealth, crime and social outcomes
A 2013 longitudinal study published in the journal Psychological Science examining the long-term effects of childhood bullying on victims and perpetrators.
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How psychological framing affects economic market prices in the lab and field
2013 study by the University of Muenster, Caltech and UCLA on how grouping of possible outcomes can influence the assignment of risk.
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Human appropriation of global production in the 20th century
2013 study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on long-term trends in human consumption of global biosystems production.
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Do tax and expenditure limits hinder the condition of public infrastructure? The case of the nation’s system of bridges
2013 study on the relationship between the restrictiveness of state TELs and the condition of their bridges.
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Recovery in the U.S. housing market: Sales prices, new construction and renovation
2013 report by the Census Bureau on the state of new construction in the U.S. housing market in 2012, includng single-family homes and multifamily units.
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Economic impacts of tax expenditures: Evidence from spatial variation across the U.S.
2013 study from Harvard University and UC Berkeley on factors that can contribute to intergenerational income mobility rates.
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Coal and public health: Scientific evidence from the U.S. and China
2013 review of reearch on the health effects of coal, with a focus on a study in PNAS on the relationship between coal combustion and mortality in China.
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What have we learned from 30 years of research on the productivity of public capital?
2013 meta-analysis in the Journal of Economic Surveys comparing the results of 68 studies on impact of public-capital investments on economic productivity.
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