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Jumpstart your Week with a Monday Mile

Mary Katherine A. Lee, Bonnie Slocum

This issue brief discusses the benefits of kick starting your week with a Monday Mile and profile a local community that created several Monday Mile routes where local residents can interact and be active.

March 26, 2019

Food insecurity and disability in the United States

Colleen M. Heflin, Claire E. Altman & Laura L. Rodriguez
March 21, 2019

See related: Food Security

Voting Can Be Hard, Information Helps

Melody Crowder-Meyer, Shana Kushner Gadarian & Jessica Trounstine
March 15, 2019

See related: U.S. Elections

Educational Disparities in Adult Health: U.S. States as Institutional Actors on the Association

Jennifer Karas Montez, Mark D. Hayward & Anna Zajacova
March 12, 2019

We Should Promote Harm Reduction to Combat the Opioid Overdose Crisis

Alexandra Punch

This issue brief explains the concept of harm reduction, describes various types of programs that fall under the harm reduction model, and discusses the promises these approaches hold for helping to combat the current opioid crisis.

March 12, 2019

Life Expectancy is Increasingly Tied to Our Education Level

Jennifer Karas Montez

In the U.S., an individual’s education level is one of the strongest predictors of how long they will live. Since the mid-1980s, it has become an increasingly strong predictor. This is true for women and men and for different race and ethnic groups.

March 5, 2019

Nearly Weighted Risk Minimal Unbiased Estimation

Ulrich K. Müller & Yulong Wang
February 28, 2019

The political economy of land reform enactments: New cross-national evidence (1900–2010)

Prasad S. Bhattacharya, Devashish Mitra & Mehmet A. Ulubaşoğlu
February 28, 2019

What are we hiding? Preventable causes of death are not accurately counted for adults with intellectual disability

Scott D. Landes
This research brief reports on findings from a recent research on errors in cause of death reporting on death certificates for individuals with disabilities. 
February 26, 2019

“Lotta Food, No Money”: Syracuse’s Poor Have Challenges that are Much Bigger than Food Access

Katie Mott

A 2019 study found that the recent closure of a local family grocery store was a major concern for local elected officials and leaders of nonprofit agencies. 

February 12, 2019

Testing for Shifts in a Time Trend Panel Data Model with Serially Correlated Error Component Disturbances

Badi H.Baltagi, Chihwa Kao & Long Liu
The testing is done with serially correlated error component disturbances, without any prior knowledge of whether the error term is stationary or nonstationary.
January 31, 2019

Case Study Research

John Gerring, University of Texas, Austin
January 31, 2019

See related: Research Methods

Stationary Points For Stochastic Frontier Models

William C. Horrace & Ian A. Wright
January 28, 2019

“You Never Know What You’re Getting”: Opioid Users’ Perceptions of Fentanyl in Southwest Pennsylvania

Katherine McLean, Shannon M. Monnat, Khary Rigg, Glenn E. Sterner III & Ashton Verdery
January 25, 2019

Educational Disparities in Adult Mortality Across U.S. States: How Do They Differ, and Have They Changed Since the Mid-1980s?

Jennifer Karas Montez, Anna Zajacova, Mark D. Hayward, Steven H. Woolf, Derek Chapman & Jason Beckfield
January 11, 2019

See related: Education, Longevity

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