Road safety and motor vehicle crashes: Surveying global and U.S. data
2013 World Health Organization report and a survey of U.S.-related data that shed light on the continuing problems of motor vehicle accidents and related policy dynamics.
Economics
Research roundups, tip sheets, articles and explainers related to the topic of economics and economic equality
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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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What’s new in digital scholarship: July 2013
July 2013 review of new studies on news paywalls, online activism, Instagram, news framing, the Arab Spring, online information-seeking and more.
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Commodity prices and conflict: How price shocks affect civil unrest
Review of a 2013 paper in The Review of Economic Studies and other studies that shed light on the connection between food insecurity and violent conflict.
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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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Public employee quality in a geographic context: A study of rural teachers
2013 study from University of Kentucky, University of Kansas and Tennessee State on teacher quality in Appalachia and the challenges of improving rural education systems.
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College majors, employment and “sciences vs. humanities” data
2013 review of relevant reports and data relating to the success of college majors in securing employment, with particular focus on a May 2013 Georgetown report.
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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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Does governmental incentives or economic growth stimulate green-building construction?
2013 study by Florida State University the effectiveness of a range of state incentive programs for the construction of energy-efficient builtings..
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