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Ideas for Tomorrow

The Tenth Decade Project will support programs to prepare Maxwell for the challenges of its second century, with citizenship (broadly understood) at its core.

January 1, 2015

See related: Centennial, Giving

Look Who’s 90

Last fall, the Maxwell School’s year of 90th-anniversary celebrations started big, with an array of special scholarly events, a school-wide 1920s-themed party, and a star-studded celebration in the nation’s capital.

January 1, 2015

See related: Centennial, School History

Lutz study on social class and parents' relationship to homework published in Int Jour of Edu & SSc

Amy Lutz & Lakshmi Jayaram
December 31, 2014

WP 177 Adaptive Elastic Net GMM Estimation with Many Invalid Moment Conditions

Mehmet Caner, Xu Han & Yoonseok Lee
This paper develops the adaptive elastic net GMM estimator in large dimensional models with many possibly invalid moment conditions.
December 31, 2014

Schwartz chapter on productivity in education published in Handbook of Research in Edu Finance & Pol

Jennifer King Rice & Amy Ellen Schwartz
December 31, 2014

Rosenthal chapter published in Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

Stuart S. Rosenthal & Stephen L. Ross
December 31, 2014

WP 178 Estimation and Identification of Change Points in Panel Models

Badi H. Baltagi, Chihwa Kao & Long Liu.
The authors prove consistency and derive the asymptotic distributions of the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and First Difference (FD) estimators and that the FD estimator is robust for all cases considered.
December 31, 2014

Schewe study on family labour on New Zealand organic dairy farms published in Sociologia Ruralis

Rebecca L. Schewe
December 31, 2014

See related: Agriculture

Judicial Politics in Polarized Times

Thomas M. Keck
December 31, 2014

The Empire That Wasn't: The Grand Duchy of Tuscany’s Global Ambitions

Brian Brege
December 31, 2014

Law, Science, Liberalism and the American Way of Warfare: The Quest for Humanity in Conflict

Michael J. Williams
December 31, 2014

Jerusalem: Conflict and Cooperation in a Contested City

Miriam F. Elman
December 31, 2014

See related: Middle East & North Africa

The Realism Reader

Colin Elman
December 31, 2014

Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs

Madonna Harrington Meyer
December 31, 2014

See related: Gender and Sex

Adventures in Academic Cartography: A Memoir

Mark Monmonier
December 31, 2014

Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: US-China Relations in the 21st Century

Michael O’Hanlon, James B. Steinberg
The authors propose a set of policy proposals to achieve a sustainable, relatively cooperative relationship between the two nations, based on the concept of providing mutual strategic reassurance in such key areas as nuclear weapons and missile defense, space and cyber operations, and military basing and deployments, while also demonstrating strategic resolve to protect vital national interests, including, in the case of the United States, its commitments to regional allies.
December 31, 2014

The Pragmatic Enlightenment: Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire

Dennis C. Rasmussen
December 31, 2014

Democracy and Conflict Resolution: The Dilemmas of Israel’s Peacemaking

Miriam F. Elman

Using the contested theory of "democratic peace" as a foundational framework, the contributors explore the effects of a variety of internal influences on Israeli government practices related to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking: electoral systems; political parties; identity; leadership; and social movements.

December 31, 2014

See related: Government, Middle East & North Africa

Why Mars: NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration

W. Henry Lambright
December 31, 2014

Minería, Agua y Justicia Social en los Andes: Experiencias Comparativas de Perú y Bolivia

Tom Perreault
December 31, 2014

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