School-based Intervention for diabetes risk reduction
2010 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on the effects of a school-based program addressing risk factors for diabetes and obesity.
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School crime control and prevention
2009 Duke University and the University of Maryland study looking at school characteristics that influence the level of crime.
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Measuring the impact of health insurance on levels and trends in inequality
2010 Cornell University study done for the National Bureau of Economic Research on the effect of health insurance on trends in income inequality.
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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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Immigration and labor market outcomes in the native elderly population
2008 study for the National Bureau of Economic Research on the effect of immigration on labor market outcomes for native elderly workers.
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Neighborhood violence and urban youth
2009 National Bureau of Economic Research paper on the relationship between early exposure to violence and later problems such as substance abuse and delinquency.
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Policies to alter the use of alternative financial services
2008 Brookings Institution study on options for moving disadvantaged individuals to the banking system.
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