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German brass for Benin Bronzes: Geochemical analysis insights into the early Atlantic trade

Tobias B. Skowronek , Christopher R. DeCorse, Rolf Denk, Stefan D. Birr, Sean Kingsley, Gregory D. Cook, Ana María Benito Dominguez, Brandon Clifford, Andrew Barker, José Suárez Otero, Vicente Caramés Moreira, Michael Bode, Moritz Jansen, Daniel Scholes
"German brass for Benin Bronzes: Geochemical analysis insights into the early Atlantic trade," co-authored by Professor and Chair of Anthropology Chris DeCorse, was published in PLOS ONE.
April 6, 2023

Returns to Scale in Property Assessment: Evidence from New York State’s Small Localities Coordination Program

Yusun Kim, Yilin Hou, John Yinger

"Returns to Scale in Property Assessment: Evidence from New York State’s Small Localities Coordination Program," co-authored by Maxwell professors Yilin Hou and John Yinger, was published in the National Tax Journal.

April 5, 2023

The Social and Community Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic

Rajeev Darolia, Colleen Heflin

"The Social and Community Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic," co-authored by Colleen Heflin, professor of public administration and international affairs, was published in The ANNALS of the Academy of Political and Social Science.

April 4, 2023

The Two-way Mundlak Estimator

Badi H. Baltagi
March 31, 2023

What is the Effect of Opioid Use During Pregnancy on Infant Health and Wellbeing at Birth?

Jessica Pac, Christine Durrance, Lawrence Berger, and Deborah Ehrenthal

This brief summarizes the results from a  study that evaluated the effects of exposure to prescription and illicit opioids during pregnancy on infant health and wellbeing at birth. 

March 31, 2023

Federal Medication-Assisted Treatment Expansion Grants Do Not Reduce Homelessness

Andrew Sullivan and Changwe Park
This brief examined differences in homelessness and employment outcomes between places that received a MAT grant and those that did not.
March 31, 2023

Which Demographic Groups and Which Places Have the Highest Drug Overdose Rates in the U.S.?

Shannon Monnat
This brief describes demographic and geographic differences in fatal drug overdose rates from 1999-2020. 
March 31, 2023

Over Two-Thirds of Opioid Overdose Victims in Canada were Employed Before They Died

Alexander Cheung, Joseph Marchand, and Patricia Mark
The authors of this brief quantify the lost labor productivity from opioid overdoses in Canada. 
March 31, 2023

The OxyContin® Reformulation in 2010 Increased States’ Food Insecurity Rates

Colleen Heflin and Xiaohan Sun
This brief shows that states with higher initial OxyContin® misuse rates had an increase in food insecurity after OxyContin® reformulation. 
March 31, 2023

Counties with Higher Prescription Opioid Presence Have Slower Student Learning Rates

Jessica Drescher and Carrie Townley-Flores
This brief shows that students in counties with high levels of opioid prescribing are learning more slowly over time than their peers in counties with low levels of opioid prescribing. 
March 31, 2023

U.S. Counties with Higher Drug Overdose Rates Have Lower School Test Scores

Rajeev Darolia, Sam Owens, and John Tyler
This brief describes the link between county-level opioid overdose rates and children’s test scores, finding that counties with higher overdose rates have lower average 3rd and 8th-grade test scores than counties with lower overdose rates. 
March 31, 2023

How has the Opioid Overdose Crisis Affected Child Maltreatment in the U.S.?

Alexander Chapman
This brief summarizes results from a study examining the association between U.S. county-level opioid mortality rates and child maltreatment rates from 2007 to 2017. Places with higher opioid overdose mortality rates have higher rates of child maltreatment. 
March 31, 2023

Exploring Factors Shaping Transportation Electrification in American Cities

Derek Ehrnschwender, Saba Siddiki, Sanya Carley, Sean Nicholson-Crotty

"Exploring factors shaping transportation electrification in American cities," co-authored by Saba Siddiki, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, was published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition.

March 24, 2023

Property Tax Sales, Private Capital, and Gentrification in the U.S.

Cameron LaPoint
This report, by Cameron LaPoint, constructs a new nationwide registry of local tax sales to examine how property tax delinquencies facilitate institutional real estate investment in major U.S. metro areas, and the effects of these acquisitions on neighborhood composition and housing disparities.
March 24, 2023

Children in Economically Disadvantaged Households Have Lower Early Literacy Skills than their Higher-Income Peers

Michah W. Rothbart, Colleen Heflin, and Gabriella Alphonso

Children in low-income families who participate in food and income support programs (such as SNAP and TANF) have lower literacy skills in kindergarten than those who do not participate in these programs. 

March 23, 2023

Putin’s War of Recolonization

Renée de Nevers, Brian Taylor

"Putin’s War of Recolonization," co-authored by Maxwell professors Renée de Nevers and Brian Taylor, was published in the Journal of Democracy.

March 23, 2023

How Has the Opioid Crisis Affected Health, Health Care Use, and Crime in the United States?

Johanna Catherine Maclean, Justine Mallatt, Christopher J. Ruhm, and Kosali Simon
This brief summarizes what is known about the relationships between opioid misuse, health, healthcare use, and crime.
March 21, 2023

The Opioid Epidemic Has Disrupted Children’s Living Arrangements

Mónica L. Caudillo, Andres Villarreal, and Philip N. Cohen
This brief summarizes how children’s living arrangements have changed during the opioid epidemic.
March 21, 2023

Opioid Treatment Programs Can Reduce Opioid-Related Emergency Department Visits and Foster Care Placements

Lindsey Rose Bullinger, Vivian Wang, and Kenneth A. Feder
This brief explores the positive effects of medication-assisted treatments on children and their caregivers and the cost savings for foster care agencies.
March 21, 2023

Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul

Timur Hammond

Timur Hammond, assistant professor of geography and the environment, has written “Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul” (University of California Press, 2023). 

March 20, 2023

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