Banks
Final report of the Congressional TARP Oversight Panel, March 2011
| July 6, 2011
2011 report by federal legislative group tasked with watching over spending during financial crisis rescue programs.
Criminal Justice
U.S. Government Accountability Office: 2011 report on criminal alien statistics
| July 5, 2011
2011 GAO report on criminal activity by undocumented immigrants, their nationality and the estimated costs of such criminality to the United States.
Citizen Action
The relationship of leadership quality to the political presence of civic associations
| June 22, 2011
2011 study in Perspectives on Politics on impact of leadership strength on effectiveness of citizen groups.
China
Domestic violence, exploitation in marriage and the foreign-bride industry
| June 21, 2011
2011 report published in the Virginia Journal of International Law on the commonalities behind two major “bride markets.”
Inequality
Collective efficacy and major depression in urban neighborhoods
| June 15, 2011
2011 study in American Journal of Epidemiology on how depression rates are affected by types and qualities of city neighborhoods.
Human Rights
How ideological attitudes predict host society members’ attitudes toward immigrants
| June 15, 2011
2010 study in Journal of Social Issues on global reception of new immigrants and cultural factors that produce negative attitudes toward them.
Criminal Justice
Click trajectories: End-to-end analysis of the spam value chain
| June 14, 2011
2011 study by UC San Diego and UC Berkeley on strategy for disrupting the infrastructure on which spam advertising is based.
China
Migrating to opportunities: How family migration motivations shape childrens’ academic trajectories
| June 10, 2011
Study in Journal of Social Issues on differences in family priorities and learning outcomes for immigrant children.
Budget
2011 annual report by the Social Security Board of Trustees
| June 9, 2011
2011 U.S. Government report on the challenges facing the Social Security system and its ability to meet its obligations to retirees and those on disability.
Inequality
Missed opportunity: Transit and jobs in metropolitan America
| June 3, 2011
2011 study by the Brookings Institution on how well U.S. public-transportation networks line up with the needs of workers and commuters.