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Five Year Research Project

Shannon Monnat, associate professor of sociology and Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion, is the principal investigator for a five-year research project that will examine the impacts of state COVID-19 mitigation policies on adult psychological health, drug overdose and suicide. The project is funded with $1.95 million from the National Institutes of Health.
October 1, 2021

Risk Factors Explaining Military Deaths From Suicide, 2008–2017: A Latent Class Analysis

Scott D. Landes, Janet M. Wilmoth, Andrew S. London
Sociologists Scott Landes, Andrew London and Janet Wilmoth examine the risk factors in military deaths by suicide.
September 25, 2021

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Why are COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Lower in Rural than in Urban areas of the U.S.?

Shannon M. Monnat, Yue Sun

This brief compares COVID-19 vaccination rates across the U.S. rural-urban continuum and identifies the major contributors to lower rates of vaccination in rural counties.

September 24, 2021

#Kifaya# Enough Dangerous Speech for South Sudanese: Collaborative Strategies by Musicians and Local Civil Society Organizations

Susan Appe, Nadia Rubaii, Kerry Whigham, Samuel Sebit Emmanuel
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September 22, 2021

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Elder Mistreatment is Pervasive in New York State

Karl Pillemer, David Burnes

Age and poor self-rated health increase the risk of experiencing mistreatment. 

September 21, 2021

Optimal Property Taxation

Kasper Kragh-Sørensen

What is the optimal tax rate on residential housing? In this paper, Kasper Kragh-Sørensen (University of Oslo) considers both the distributional effects and the long-lived transitional dynamics following a change in the property tax rate.

September 17, 2021

Strengthening SNAP and TANF is Essential to Support Children in Early Childhood

Colleen Heflin, Michah W. Rothbart, Mattie Mackenzie-Liu

This brief summarizes findings from a study examining participation in SNAP and TANF in early childhood in Virginia.

September 14, 2021

A New Look at Property Tax Incidence Across Local Governments

John Yinger

John Yinger (Syracuse University) develops a new method for determining the incidence of property tax differences across jurisdictions.

September 3, 2021

Taking the Measure of Addiction Recovery: A Brief History of Recovery Capital

Austin McNeill Brown

This brief discusses the concept of ‘recovery capital’ as an important theoretical advancement in the field of addiction treatment.

August 31, 2021

Forced Moves and Home Maintenance: The Amplifying Effects of Mortgage Payment Burden on Underwater Homeowners

John P. Harding, Jing Li, Stuart S. Rosenthal & Xirui Zhang
August 28, 2021

See related: Housing

Coalitional Lobbying and Intersectional Representation in American Rulemaking

Maraam A. Dwidar

In her article published in American Political Science Review, Assistant Professor of Political Science Maraam Dwidar's argues that interest groups representing women, people of color, Native nations, and the poor strategically conduct intersectional advocacy through coalitional lobbying.

August 13, 2021

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Welfare Reform and Children’s Health

Badi H. Baltagi & Yin-Fang Yen
August 11, 2021

Bayesian Spatial Bivariate Panel Probit Estimation

Badi H. Baltagi, Peter H. Egger & Michaela Kesina
This paper formulates and analyzes Bayesian model variants for the analysis of systems of spatial panel data with binary dependent variables.
August 11, 2021

So Many Hospitals, So Little Information: How Hospital Value Based Purchasing is a Game of Chance

Andrew I. Friedson, William C. Horrace, and Allison F. Marier
August 11, 2021

Labor Unions and Occupational Safety: Event-Study Analysis Using Union Elections

Ling Li, Shawn Rohlin & Perry Singleton
August 11, 2021

Density Deconvolution with Laplace Errors and Unknown Variance

Jun Cai, William C. Horrace & Christopher F. Parmeter
The authors consider density deconvolution with zero-mean Laplace noise in the context of an error component regression model.
August 10, 2021

Network Competition and Team Chemistry in the NBA

William C. Horrace, Hyunseok Jung & Shane Sanders
The authors consider a heterogeneous social interaction model where agents interact with peers within their own network and agents across other networks.
August 10, 2021

Proper Medication Adherence is a Challenge for Older SNAP Participants with Chronic Health Conditions

Colleen Heflin, Chinedum O. Ojinnaka, Irma Arteaga, Lauryn Quick

This research brief dives into the stories behind opioid use initiation and provides intervention strategies.

August 10, 2021

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