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Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History

March 14, 2022

Allan Mazur, professor emeritus of policy studies at the Maxwell School, has published a new book, “Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History” (Cambridge University Press, 2022). 

See related: Climate Change

Support from Adult Children and Parental Health in Rural America

March 11, 2022

"Support from Adult Children and Parental Health in Rural America," co-authored by Associate Professor of Sociology Shannon Monnat, was published in the Journal of Rural Social Sciences.

See related: Aging, Child & Elder Care

Origins of the Mass Party: Dispossession and the Party-Form in Mexico and Bolivia in Comparative Perspective

March 3, 2022
Edwin Ackerman examines two nationalist insurrections that were largely composed of a peasant-base in Mexico in 1921 and Bolivia in 1952 in his new book, "Origins of the Mass Party: Dispossession and the Party-Form in Mexico and Bolivia in Comparative Perspective" (University of Oxford Press, 2021).  

See related: Government, Latin America & the Caribbean, Political Parties

Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb

February 25, 2022

In his new book, "Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb" (University of California Press, 2022), Sean J. Drake looks at how race and class intersect, contributing to educational inequality and modern school segregation. 

See related: Civil Rights, Gender and Sex, Race & Ethnicity, Social Justice

Racial-ethnic inequities in age at death among adults with/without intellectual and developmental disability in the United States

February 23, 2022

Scott Landes and Janet Wilmoth identify differences in racial-ethnic inequities in mortality between adults with/without intellectual and developmental disability in their study published in Preventive Medicine.

See related: Civil Rights, Longevity, Mental Health, Race & Ethnicity

What is Holding the Yuan Back? Xi is.

February 23, 2022
Daniel McDowell, associate professor of political science, examines why China's currency, the yuan, continues to significantly underperform the dollar as the world's reserve currency.

See related: China, International Affairs

Delta Democracy: Pathways to Incremental Civic Revolution in Egypt and Beyond

February 23, 2022

See related: International Affairs, Middle East & North Africa

Parenting in Privilege or Peril: How Social Inequality Enables or Derails the American Dream

February 17, 2022
Amy Lutz, associate professor of sociology at the Maxwell School, is the co-author of a new book, "Parenting in Privilege or Peril: How Social Inequality Enables or Derails the American Dream" (Teachers College Press, 2021). The book examines how social contexts and culture affect parenting decisions. 

See related: Civil Rights, Parenting & Family

Perceived access to PrEP as a critical step in engagement: A qualitative analysis and discrete choice experiment among young men who have sex with men

January 26, 2022
Andrew London and John McPeak assess preferences for and barriers to PrEP access in the U.S. in a study published in PLoS One.

See related: Insurance

Cultural Anthropology Studies of Conflict

January 20, 2022

The chapter, "Cultural Anthropology Studies of Conflict," was co-authored by Maxwell alum Fethi Keles '08 M.A. (Anth)/'14 Ph.D. (Anth). 

Conceptualising Policy Design in the Policy Process

January 10, 2022

In this article, Saba Siddiki, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, and her co-author discuss how scholars guided by different orientations to studying policy design are addressing and measuring common policy design concepts and themes, and offer future research opportunities.

The impact of heat on kidney stone presentations in South Carolina under two climate change scenarios

January 10, 2022
In his paper published in Nature, Ethan Coffel, assistant professor of geography and the environment, looks at the impact of heat on kidney stone presentations under two climate change scenarios. 

See related: Climate Change, Health Policy

The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean

December 18, 2021
In her new book, "The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), Tessa Murphy, assistant professor of history, traces how generations of Indigenous Kalinagos, free and enslaved Africans and settlers from a variety of European nations used maritime routes to forge connections that spanned the eastern Caribbean.

See related: Colonialism, Latin America & the Caribbean, Migration, Race & Ethnicity

The impact of pork-barrel capital funding in schools: Evidence from participatory budgeting in NYC

December 16, 2021
Michah Rothbart examines the impact of pork-barrel capital funding in New York City schools in a study published in Public Budgeting & Finance.

See related: Economic Policy

‘It’s history in the making all around us’: examining COVID-19 through the lenses of HIV and epidemic history

December 2, 2021
"'It’s history in the making all around us': examining COVID-19 through the lenses of HIV and epidemic history," co-authored by Professor Andrew London, was published in Culture, Health & Sexuality. The study aims to determine how men living in the USA make sense of COVID-19 in the light of their collective knowledge and/or memories of the HIV pandemic, and provides evidence regarding the social organization of a contemporary pandemic and how individuals perceive and guard against risk, assign responsibility for virus transmission and acquisition, and navigate the threat of a potentially deadly infection.

See related: COVID-19, Health Policy

Impacts of Property Tax Levy on Housing Price and Rent: Theoretical Models and Simulation with Insights on the Timing of China Adopting the Property Tax

December 2, 2021
Professor Yilin Hou examines the  impact of property tax levy (RPT) on China’s housing price in article published in China Finance and Economic Review.

See related: China

The Effect of EITC Exposure in Childhood on Marriage and Early Childbearing

December 1, 2021
Katherine Michelmore and Len Lopoo examine the effect of Earned Income Tax Credit exposure in childhood on marriage and early childbearing.

See related: Parenting & Family

Limited contracts, limited quality? effects of adjunct instructors on student outcomes

December 1, 2021
In an article published in Economics of Education Review, Assistant Professor of Economics Maria Zhu examines the effects of adjunct professors on student outcomes.

The Platform Economy and the Smart City: Technology and the Transformation of Urban Policy

November 29, 2021
In his new book, “The Platform Economy and the Smart City: Technology and the Transformation of Urban Policy” (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021), Maxwell School faculty member Austin Zwick explores the intersection between urban planning and technological change.

See related: Infrastructure

The Pursuit of Salvation. Community, Space, and Discipline in Early Medieval Monasticism

November 12, 2021
In his new book, “The Pursuit of Salvation. Community, Space, and Discipline in Monasticism” (Brepolis Publishers, 2021), Maxwell School faculty member Albrecht Diem provides a new view on the emergence of monastic life in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages–an institution and form of life that had a deep impact on Western culture.

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