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graduate students conducting research to address pressing issues
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Featured Event
Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy 2023
Kosali Simon, the Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor, associate vice provost for health sciences, and Distinguished Professor in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, will present "Chasing the Flames: A Look Back at COVID-Era Policy Making, Economics, and Data" at the 35th Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy.
September 28, 2023
Featured Research
Ying Shi and Maria Zhu
New research from CPR Associates on the “model minority” stereotype finds that teachers rate Asian students’ academic skills more favorably than White students. In addition, teachers respond to the presence of any Asian student in the classroom by widening Black-White and Hispanic-White assessment gaps.
July 2023 | Download Brief
Affirmative Action is a Successful Policy for Diversity in College Graduation
Amy Lutz, Pamela R. Bennett, and Rebecca Wang
The findings in this brief suggest that affirmative action is an effective educational policy in the U.S. for providing underrepresented students with degrees from selective institutions, which can serve as a springboard to social mobility.
June 2023 | Download Brief
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Hugo Jales, Judith Liu, Norbert Wilson
This working paper analyzes the role played by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in alleviating or exacerbating inequality across racial and ethnic groups in food expenditures and in the resources needed to meet basic food needs.
May 2023
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
Center for Policy Design and Governance
Integrating policy, political and computational sciences in research and instruction to help scientists, practitioners and future public service leaders understand and address future governance challenges.
Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health
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.
CPR/Metro Alumni
The Center serves students, graduates and faculty for a lifetime and it's our pleasure to spread the word about the wonderful things going on in CPR and throughout the Maxwell School.
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