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Most Home-Delivered Meal Recipients with Dementia Receive Support from Friends and Family, but More Social Activity is Needed

Claire Pendergrast

This research brief shows that home-delivered meal recipients with dementia receive significant support from friends and family, but 83% would like more social activity. 

March 2, 2022

Help Me Grow Follow Up Texting Intervention

The Maxwell X Lab partnered with Help Me Grow (HMG) to test if a texting campaign that leverages the importance of timing can better encourage parents to respond to the HMG team more consistently.
February 28, 2022

Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb

Sean J. Drake

In his new book, "Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb" (University of California Press, 2022), Sean J. Drake looks at how race and class intersect, contributing to educational inequality and modern school segregation. 

February 25, 2022

Racial-ethnic inequities in age at death among adults with/without intellectual and developmental disability in the United States

Scott D.Landes, Janet M.Wilmoth, Katherine E.McDonald, Alyssa N.Smith

Scott Landes and Janet Wilmoth identify differences in racial-ethnic inequities in mortality between adults with/without intellectual and developmental disability in their study published in Preventive Medicine.

February 23, 2022

What is Holding the Yuan Back? Xi is.

Daniel McDowell
Daniel McDowell, associate professor of political science, examines why China's currency, the yuan, continues to significantly underperform the dollar as the world's reserve currency.
February 23, 2022

Aging and Disability Services are Unequally Distributed Across the United States

Claire Pendergrast, Danielle Rhubart

As the U.S. population ages, demand for aging and disability services will increase, but 15% of U.S. counties have no aging and disability services organizations.

February 22, 2022

Why are Residential Property Tax Rates Regressive?

Natee Amornsiripanitch
Author Natee Amornsiripanitch uses an instrumental variable approach to show that a large portion of this pattern can be attributed to measurement error in sale prices.
February 18, 2022

Parenting in Privilege or Peril: How Social Inequality Enables or Derails the American Dream

Amy Lutz
Amy Lutz, associate professor of sociology at the Maxwell School, is the co-author of a new book, "Parenting in Privilege or Peril: How Social Inequality Enables or Derails the American Dream" (Teachers College Press, 2021). The book examines how social contexts and culture affect parenting decisions. 
February 17, 2022

What Makes a Classmate a Peer? Examining Which Peers Matter in NYC Elementary Schools

William C. Horrace, Hyunseok Jung, Jonathan L. Presler, Amy Ellen Schwartz*
February 16, 2022

Robust Dynamic Panel Data Models Using 𝛆-Contamination

Badi H. Baltagi, Georges Bresson, Anoop Chaturvedi, and Guy Lacroix
February 16, 2022

Rural Working-Age Adults Report Worse Health than their Urban Peers

Shannon M. Monnat , Danielle Rhubart

Higher shares of poor/fair self-rated health among residents of rural and small urban counties than in large urban counties.

February 8, 2022

Tax and Occupancy of Business Properties: Theory and Evidence from UK Business Rates

Ben Lockwood, Martin Simmler, Eddy Tam
Ben Lockwood, Martin Simmler, and Eddy Tam estimate that the retail relief reduces vacancies by 90%, and SBRR relief by up to 54%.
February 4, 2022

Diagnostic Testing of Finite Moment Conditions for the Consistency and Root-N Asymptotic Normality of the GMM and M Estimators

Yuya Sasaki, Yulong Wang

“Diagnostic Testing of Finite Moment Conditions for the Consistency and Root-N Asymptotic Normality of the GMM and M Estimators,” co-authored by Associate Professor of Economics Yulong Wang, was published in the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics.

January 28, 2022

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Perceived access to PrEP as a critical step in engagement: A qualitative analysis and discrete choice experiment among young men who have sex with men

Elizabeth A. Asiago-Reddy, John McPeak, Riccardo Scarpa, Amy Braksmajer, Nicola Ruszkowski, James McMahon, Andrew S. London
Andrew London and John McPeak assess preferences for and barriers to PrEP access in the U.S. in a study published in PLoS One.
January 26, 2022

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Fitness, Parks, and Active Transportation Organizations Support Community Recovery and Physical Activity After Disasters

Claire Pendergrast, Scott Miles, Youngjun Choe, Nicole Errett

Fitness, parks, and active transportation organizations’ trusted relationships, large organizational networks, and health promotion expertise enables them to support disaster recovery efforts and community health after disasters.

January 25, 2022

Are the Property Tax Burdens of Permanent Homeowners Affected by Growth in Housing Rentals and Second Homes: Evidence Based on Big Data from Florida

Keith Ihlanfeldt, Cynthia Fan Yang

Authors Keith Ihlanfeldt and Cynthia Fan Yang relate the effective tax rate and the tax price that homeowners pay for public services to shifts in their city's housing units in favor of rentals, broken down by type.

January 21, 2022

Cultural Anthropology Studies of Conflict

Fethi Keles, Christos Kyrou, Robert Rubinstein

The chapter, "Cultural Anthropology Studies of Conflict," was co-authored by Maxwell alum Fethi Keles '08 M.A. (Anth)/'14 Ph.D. (Anth). 

January 20, 2022

Latinos Report Higher Rates of Cognitive Impairment than U.S.-Born Whites, But Rates Vary Between Latino Subgroups

Claire Pendergrast, Marc A. Garcia, Catherine Garcia

Among older adults, U.S. Latinos have higher rates of cognitive impairment than U.S.-born whites.

January 18, 2022

What Do Epidemic History and Sexual Minority Men’s Experiences of HIV and COVID-19 Teach Us About Pandemic Preparedness?

Amy Braksmajer, Andrew S. London

For sexual minority individuals who have experienced trauma and loss stemming from the HIV epidemic, there are many similarities to COVID.

January 11, 2022

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