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Long Covid and Subjective Wellbeing Among U.S. Working-Age Adults

Douglas A. Wolf, Shannon M. Monnat, Iliya Gutin, Emily W. Wiemers, Jennifer Karas Montez, Qiyu Deng

Co-authored by Maxwell faculty members Douglas Wolf, Shannon Monnat, Iliya Gutin, Emily Wiemers and Jennifer Karas Montez, the article was published in BMC Public Health.

November 3, 2026

U.S. State Policy Contexts, County Economic Contexts, and Working-Age Mortality

Iliya Gutin, Jennifer Karas Montez, Shannon Monnat, Emily Wiemers, Douglas Wolf

The article, co-authored by Maxwell faculty members Iliya Gutin, Jennifer Karas Montez, Shannon Monnat, Emily Wiemers and Douglas Wolf, was published in Demography.

November 2, 2026

Family Dynamic in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation: Parental and Sibling Associations Across the Life Course

Dongmei Zuo, Colleen M. Heflin

Co-authored by Colleen Heflin, professor of public administration and international affairs, the article was published in Population Research and Policy Review.

November 2, 2026

Balancing Growth and Impact: A Conjoint Analysis of Public Preferences for Data Center Policy

Fengxiu Zhang, Shuping Wang, Saba Siddiki, David W.S. Wong, & Jie Xu
This brief summarizes "Balancing growth and impact: A conjoint analysis of public preferences for data center policy," by Fengxiu Zhang, Shuping Wang, Saba Siddiki, David W.S. Wong, & Jie Xu in Social Science Quarterly.
October 30, 2026

Investigating Environmental Features and Network Interdependencies in Network Formation: A Study of Collaborative, Community-Based Watershed Restoration

Nicholas Oesterling
This brief summarizes "Investigating environmental features and network interdependencies in network formation: A study of collaborative, community-based watershed restoration," by Nicholas Oesterling in Environmental Management.
October 29, 2026

Evaluating SNAP Food Restriction Waivers is Critical but Challenging

Michele Ver Ploeg, Colleen Heflin, and Joanne Guthrie

This brief describes the methodological and data challenges in evaluating SNAP food restriction waivers. The authors identify that existing data sources miss much of what participants buy and eat, especially food purchased away from home or received for free, and that the data typically used to fill federal gaps cover too few low-income households to solve the problem.

October 28, 2026

How Will SNAP Food Restriction Waivers Impact Participants and Retailers?

Michele Ver Ploeg, Colleen Heflin, and Joanne Guthrie

This brief builds a framework for evaluating how SNAP food restriction waivers could affect participants, retailers, and food manufacturers.

October 21, 2026

Public Health Insurance and Infant Health: Evidence from Medicaid Funding Cuts in Texas

Ehsan Mohaghegh Dowlatabadi, Quan Qi, Xin Brown, Nahid Tavassoli, and Hamid Noghanibehambari
This working paper, led by CPR Graduate Research Associate Ehsan Mohaghegh Dowlatabadi, examines the effects of the 2005 Texas Medicaid funding cutbacks on prenatal care utilization, birth outcomes, and infant mortality.
October 20, 2026

“I’m Terrified to Go to School”: Refugee Youth’s Perceptions of Mass School Shootings and School Violence

Ashley Cureton, Erick R. Aguinaldo, Sean J. Drake

The article, co-authored by Assistant Professor of Sociology Sean Drake, was published in Children & Schools.

October 12, 2026

Primary Nesting Season Designations on Conservation Reserve Program Lands: Grassland Bird Breeding Phenology and Stakeholder Perspectives

Tom A. Langen, Margaret A. Voss, Dea L. Closson, Cooper P. Olds, Sean G. Jackson, Rick Welsh

Co-authored by Professor of Sociology Rick Welsh, the article was published in Conservation Science and Practice.

August 31, 2026

Do Nonprofit Ratings Help Donors Make Better Decisions?

Ashraf Haque

This brief describes how donors respond to GuideStar's transparency seal ratings and what that means for nonprofit accountability. The author finds that even ratings not tied to verified performance significantly influence giving, with platinum-rated nonprofits receiving 34% more in donations than unrated ones, and that donors do not penalize poorly performing nonprofits that hold ratings.

August 26, 2026

The Mundlak Estimator in a Panel Data Model with Serially Correlated Error Component Disturbances

Badi H. Baltagi and Long Liu
This working paper, led by Badi H. Baltagi, shows that the classic Mundlak (1978) result where the random effects estimator reduces to the fixed effects estimator when the regressors are all correlated with the individual effects, may not hold if the remainder disturbances have a general serial correlation variance-covariance matrix.
August 25, 2026

Can the Safety Net Support Families Through Childbirth?

Hyojeong Kim, Colleen Heflin, and Taryn Morrissey
This brief describes how safety net programs respond to the earnings disruptions surrounding childbirth and where they fall short. 
August 19, 2026

Mapping Measurement to Theory in Policy Evolution: A Case of Net Metering Policies of the United States

Graham Ambrose & Myriam Gregoire-Zawilski

This brief summarizes "Mapping measurement to theory in policy evolution: A case of net metering policies of the United States," co-authored by Graham Ambrose and Myriam Gregoire-Zawilski in Policy Studies Journal.

August 18, 2026

The Glass Is Half Full: The Safety Net for Low-Income Women Around Childbirth

Colleen Heflin, Taryn W. Morrissey, Hyojeong Kim

Co-authored by Colleen Heflin, professor of public administration and international affairs, and Maxwell alumna Hyojeong Kim, the article was published in Demography.

August 14, 2026

Impact of Media Guidelines on Suicide-Related Reporting Quality and Suicides: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Simone Scotti Requena, Vikas Arya, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Mark Sinyor, Michiko Ueda, Matthew J. Spittal, & Jane Pirkis

This brief summarizes "Impact of media guidelines on suicide-related reporting quality and suicides: A systematic review and meta-analysis," co-authored by Simone Scotti Requena, Vikas Arya, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Mark Sinyor, Michiko Ueda, Matthew J. Spittal, and Jane Pirkis in Crisis.

August 5, 2026

Policy Design Complexity and Policy Outputs: Theory and Methods

Brandon Charles, Saba Siddiki, Matia Vannoni, Christopher Frantz, & Nicholas Oesterling

This brief summarizes "Policy design complexity and policy outputs: Theory and methods," co-authored by Brandon Charles, Saba Siddiki, Matia Vannoni, Christopher Frantz, and Nicholas Oesterling in Policy Design and Practice.

August 4, 2026

Linking Decision Roles to Knowledge Utilization in US State Governments: A Mixed-Method Study

Shuping Wang, Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, and Chengxin Xu

This brief summarizes "Linking decision roles to knowledge utilization in US state governments: A mixed-method study," co-authored by Shuping Wang, Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, and Chengxin Xu in Public Administration Review.


 
August 3, 2026

Medicare’s Hospital Wage Index Exceptions Grew By Nearly 60% From 2016 To 2024

Geoffrey J. Hoffman and Jun Li

This brief summarizes "Medicare’s hospital wage index exceptions grew by nearly 60% from 2016 to 2024," co-authored by Geoffrey J. Hoffman and Jun Li in Health Affairs.

August 3, 2026

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