Heavy cars and SUVs: The external costs of the vehicle-weight “arms race”
2013 study by U.C. Berkeley and NBER in the Review of Economic Studies on the relationship between vehicle weight and highway fatalities.
2013 study by U.C. Berkeley and NBER in the Review of Economic Studies on the relationship between vehicle weight and highway fatalities.
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2013 list of key websites, institutions and journals that can help deepen policy knowledge and reporting about urban affairs.
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2013 reports by the nonpartisan Office of Management and Budget and Congressional Research Service on shutdown’s impact on the economy and employment.
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2013 survey of studies and reports on issues relating to microfinance and economics in the developing world.
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A 2013 paper from U.C. Berkeley in the journal Econometrica exploring the trade-off between equity and efficiency in estate tax rates.
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2011 study from the United States Census Bureau and New York University’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy on gentrification and displacement.
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2013 study from the University of Toronto in Applied Cognitive Psychology on how speech tasks can interfere with drivers’ visual attention.
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2013 working paper by the Harvard Kennedy School that examines World Bank governance-related projects to see to what degree they’re adjusted to their context.
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2013 study in the Annual Review of Economics on the individual and societal consequences of low levels of financial knowledge and possible solutions.
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2013 study by University of Oregon and Willamette University on interventions to improve the selective attention of preschoolers from low-income families.
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