National Transportation Safety Board: Report on curbside motorcoach safety
2011 study by the NTSB of data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration as well as interviews, compliance reviews and inspections.
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Why has regional income convergence in the U.S. stopped? Zoning and inequality
2012 paper from Harvard on how restrictive zoning across the U.S. had decreased labor mobility and stalled progress toward diminishing income inequality.
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Spreading the word: Geography, policy and knowledge spillovers
2012 study in the Review of Economics and Statistics looks at the diffusion of knowledge and patents across states and regions.
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Local food availability and obesity risk among school-aged children
2012 study in the Journal of Social Science and Medicine on relationship between access to healthful food and obesity trends among youth.
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Go where the money is: Modeling street robbers’ location choices
2012 study from Loyola University of Chicago and the Netherlands Institute in the Journal of Economic Geography on how street robberies cluster in certain areas, and why.
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Using public health methods to investigate the diffusion of homicide
2012 study from Michigan State University published in Justice Quarterly on the diffusion of homicide clusters in a low-income city.
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Residential segregation in new Hispanic destinations: Cities, suburbs and rural communities
2010 study from Cornell and Mississippi State on how Latinos are more segregated in new destination places, particularly in the suburbs and rural areas.
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Personal opinions, social capital and the spiral of silence
2012 study in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research on the extent to which social capital affects one’s propensity to share opinions publicly.
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New views on urban communities and poverty in the United States
2012 roundup of studies on urban poverty and its impact on health, work and well-being, including education, crime levels and access to food.
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Tree and impervious cover change in U.S. cities
2012 study from the U.S. Forest Service and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry on the change in trees and greenery in 20 U.S. metropolitan areas.
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