Impact of air quality on hospital spending
2010 RAND Corporation study on the cost of medical care attributed to California’s failure to meet federal clean air standards.
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What cost-of-crime research can tell us about investing in police
2010 RAND Corporation paper on the estimates of the cost of crime, the effectiveness of police force in combating it, and potential benefits of investments in enforcement.
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What drives land-use change in the United States?
2008 paper by Harvard University, Oregon State University, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the economic and policy drivers of national land-use change.
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How longer work lives ease the crunch of population aging
2009 RAND Corporation paper examines the potential benefits of workers remaining in the workforce for longer periods of time.
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Smoothing effect of carpool lanes on freeway bottlenecks
2008 U.C. Berkeley study looking at the effect of carpool lanes on the number of person and vehicle hours traveled.
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Credit conditions and trade during the global financial crisis
2010 study by Stanford and Singapore Management University on the effect of credit tightening on international trade during the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
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Global versus local conservation for endangered bird species
2010 study examining the challenges of coordinating small-scale and large-scale endangered-species lists.
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Using experiments to estimate the effects of education on voter turnout
2010 paper in American Journal of Political Science examining the possible link between education levels and voter turnout.
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Mom-and-pop meet big-box: Complements or substitutes?
2009 paper by the University of Maryland and the Center for Economic Studies on the effect of large chain retail stores on smaller retailers as well as local employment.
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The suburbanization of poverty: Trends in metropolitan America, 2000 to 2008
2009 Brookings Institution study on the nature of the increase in poverty in the United States between 2000 and 2008.
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