Impact of long-term exposure to concentrated disadvantage on high school graduation
2011 study from the University of Michigan and University of Wisconsin-Madison on the link between disadvantaged neighborhoods and high school graduation rate.
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Research Supplemental Poverty Measure, 2010: Consumer income
2011 report by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Census Bureau with revisions to poverty measures and their impact on U.S. poverty levels.
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Ethnic fractionalization and foreign aid effectiveness
2011 study from the University of Melbourne in the Journal of African Economies on the conditions that affect the efficacy of foreign aid.
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Racial disparities in health: How much does stress really matter?
2011 study from Harvard University published in the DuBois Review exploring the interaction between stress and public health outcomes, along racial lines.
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New structural economics: A framework for rethinking development
2011 World Bank paper on a new theory of economic development emphasizing both industrial improvements and country-specific flexibility.
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Trends in the distribution of house income between 1979 and 2007
2011 Congressional Budget Office report analyzes IRS and Census Bureau data to track changes in income across classes of earners.
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United Nations 2011 global study on homicide
2011 U.N. report on rates of homicide per capita in 207 countries based on data from the World Health Organization, the Global Burden of Injuries Project; and other sources.
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Black gender gap in education: Historical trends and racial comparisons
2011 study in the journal Demography examining the higher education completion rates for black men and women between 1940 and 2000.
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Assessing the impact of the Great Recession on income and poverty across states
2011 fact sheet published by Congress’s Joint Economic Committee on the recession’s impact at the state level.
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ID at the polls: Assessing the impact of recent state voter ID laws on voter turnout
2011 paper in the Harvard Law and Policy Review compares changes in voter turnout between 2002 and 2006.
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