Neighborhood racial context and perceptions of police-based discrimination
2009 study in the journal Criminology on the racial makeup of neighborhoods and trends in racial profiling.
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Cities, skills and wages in the United States
2012 study by the University of Toronto on the relationship between the skills used in a job and the salary for that job in a city of a given size.
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Risk of injury for bicycling on cycle tracks versus in the street
2010 study from the Harvard School of Public Health on the relative safety of on-street bicycle lanes and physically separated cycle tracks.
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End of the segregated century: Racial separation in America’s neighborhoods, 1890-2010
2012 report by the Manhattan Institute on the historical evolution in the racial segregation of neighborhoods in the United States.
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Public participation, procedural fairness and local governance
2012 study from the University of Nebraska examines how outreach efforts by local authorities can increase satisfaction with government and use of tax dollars.
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U.S. obesity trends and neighborhood effects
2011 study in the New England Journal of Medicine on the type of neighborhood in which an individual lives and health outcomes.
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Analysis of health, safety and greening vacant urban space
2011 research from the University of Pennsylvania on the personal and community benefits of creating more green spaces in urban areas.
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Impact of juvenile curfew laws on arrests of youth and adults
2011 paper in The American Law and Economics Review on youth curfews and crime rates.
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Who offers tax-based business development incentives?
2011 paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research on the conditions that make special municipal tax deals likely and their association with political corruption.
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Energy and economic value of plastics and municipal solid wastes
2011 study by Columbia University’s Earth Engineering Center on the energy contained in discarded plastics and its economic value.
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