"Parenting in Privilege or Peril: How Social Inequality Enables or Derails the American Dream" Amy Lutz’s new book examines how social contexts and culture affect parenting decisions.
October 2021
We See Issues in a Different Light
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faculty experts of a range of disciplines
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graduate students conducting research to address pressing issues
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research areas connect faculty across departments and disciplines
Featured Research
"Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb" In his new book, Sean J. Drake looks at how race and class intersect, contributing to educational inequality and modern school segregation.
March 2022
"Econometric Analysis of Panel Data" Written by one of the world’s leading researchers and authors in the field, Badi Baltagi, Econometric Analysis of Panel Data has established itself as the leading textbook for graduate and postgraduate courses on panel data. This new sixth edition has been fully revised and updated.
March 2021
CPR Research Areas
Faculty in the Center for Policy Research (CPR) conduct a broad range of interdisciplinary research related to public policy in the following research areas:
- Econometrics Methodology
- Education
- Energy and Environmental Policy
- Health Studies
- Public Finance
- Social Welfare, Poverty and Income Security
- Urban & Regional Studies
Maxwell X Lab
Partnering with the public and nonprofit sectors, the X Lab leverages behavioral science and randomized controlled trials to create cost-effective solutions to complex problems.
Education Finance and Accountability Program
Empowering breakthrough research, scholarship and debate about fundamental policy issues in elementary and secondary education.
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