Assessing State Level Variation in Signature Authority and Cause of Death Accuracy, 2005–2017
Expanding Public Insurance Eligibility Increases Substance Use Treatment Provider Acceptance of Public Insurance and Increases Adolescent Access to Treatment
Expanding eligibility thresholds for Medicaid and CHIP leads to increased access to and use of substance use treatment among adolescents.
Anxious Times and Anxiety Drugs
Experts worry that inconsistent access to physicians as a result of stay-at-home orders will lead dependent patients to seek counterfeit or street drugs if their prescriptions lapse.
The Effects of Special Education on the Academic Performance of Students with Learning Disabilities
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Effects of US state preemption laws on infant mortality
Self-Reported ADHD and Adult Health in the United States
Allowing Cities to Raise the Minimum Wage Could Prevent Hundreds of Infant Deaths Annually
This research brief discusses findings that show each additional dollar of minimum wage reduces infant deaths by up to 1.8% annually in large U.S. cities.
The Sugar Industry Gets Rich and We Get Sick
This issue brief takes a deep dive into strategies the sugar industry uses to gain profits while making us sick.
Self-Esteem and Long-term Recovery from Substance Use Disorders
This brief describes how self-esteem and other strength-based measures of personal growth are better indicators of recovery progress.
COVID-19 Risk for Individuals with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities Varies by Type of Residential Setting
COVID-19 case and fatality rates are higher for people with IDD who are living in Skilled Nursing Facilities compared with those living in other types of facilities or those living in individual residences or their family home.
Thermal power generation is disadvantaged in a warming world
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Dynamic and Non-Neutral Productivity Effects of Foreign Ownership: A Nonparametric Approach
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Using Linked Administrative Data to Improve Child Well-being in the Rental Assistance Demonstration.
U.S. Food and Nutrition Policy Across the Life Course.
The author first provides an overview of the prevalence of food insecurity by age. Then, the author provides a brief summary of the food programs that are currently available in the United States and discusses how the life-course perspective can inform future policy and research.
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Grandparenting Children with Disabilities
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Strategies of Secession and Counter-Secession
The Diary of 1636: The Second Manchu Invasion of Korea
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Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War: 1938-1941
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