Public defenders, attorney quality and trial outcomes: Research on legal representation
2014 study in the American Law and Economics Review suggesting that poor defendants with assigned counsel often receive diminished outcomes.
2014 study in the American Law and Economics Review suggesting that poor defendants with assigned counsel often receive diminished outcomes.
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2014 research brief on the role of negative emotionality in the reporting of crimes, by Chad Posick and Michael Singleton, Georgia Southern University and the Scholars Strategy Network.
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2014 study in Public Administration Review on how K–12 public education fared during the recession to better understand the choices made by school districts
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2013 review of studies that shed light on school segregation and demographic change more than a half-century after Brown vs. the Board of Education.
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2014 research brief on the growing gap between demand and supply of transplantable kidneys and possible policy responses, by Philip J. Cook and Kimberly D. Krawiec of Duke University.
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2014 analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data by the National Employment Law Project that examines how jobs lost in the recession differ from those added in the recovery.
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April 2014 review of recent studies on a range of digital media topics, from information diffusion on Facebook to news business models.
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2014 report from the Congressional Research Service on the use of the current mortgage-interest deduction as well as four possible methods for reforming it.
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2013 study from Harvard, Wellesley and Johns Hopkins Universities on the varied effects of skilled immigration on employment and native workers.
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2014 study by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on ways that nations, states and municipalities can act to limit or reverse trends in CO2 emissions.
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