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Local Government Environmental Policy Innovation: Emerging Regulation of GHG Emissions in the Transportation-for-Hire Industry

Austin Zwick, Mischa Young, Zachary Spicer, Karina Freeland

Assistant Teaching Professor of Policy Studies Austin Zwick and alumna Karina Freeland '23 B.A. (PSt). investigate what conditions are needed for local government to take on leadership and policy innovation in environmental regulation. Published in Sustainability.

November 27, 2024

The Impact of Inflation on Support for Kamala Harris in the 2024 Presidential Election

David Steinberg, Daniel McDowell, Erdem Aytac

Professor of Political Science Daniel McDowell and his co-authors find that priming Americans to think about inflation reduces approval of the Biden-Harris administration and lowers confidence in the Democrats' ability to manage the economy. Published in SSRN.

November 19, 2024

Political Polarization and Health

Jay J Van Bavel, Shana Kushner Gadarian, Eric Knowles, Kai Ruggeri

Professor of Political Science Shana Gadarian and co-authors conclude that polarization is a serious—if largely overlooked—determinant of health, whose impacts must be more thoroughly understood and mitigated. Published in Nature Medicine.

November 19, 2024

Differences in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Between U.S. Civilians and Military Veterans in the Gulf War and Post-9/11 War Eligibility Cohorts: A Research Note

Kevin J. Ortiz Diaz, Scott D. Landes, Shannon M. Monnat
Findings by sociologists Scott Landes and Shannon Monnat show that among both war eligibility cohorts, combat veterans were more likely than nonveterans to report a PTSD diagnosis. Published in Armed Forces & Society.
November 18, 2024

Does the Reference Period Matter When Evaluating the Effect of SNAP on Food Insecurity?

Colleen Heflin, James P. Ziliak

In this paper, Colleen Heflin and co-author examine if protective effects of SNAP against food insecurity are obtained whether using the 30-day or 12-month food insecurity scale. Results indicate comparable average treatment effects across both reference periods. Published in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy.

November 15, 2024

Race, Representation, and the Legitimacy of International Organizations

David A. Steinberg, Daniel McDowell

Daniel McDowell and co-author explore whether the representation of Black people in international organization leadership positions influences perceptions of legitimacy among Black and white individuals. Published in International Organization.

November 14, 2024

On Continuity and Exceptionality in Our Present Crisis: A Conversation with Silvia Federici

Selina Gallo-Cruz, Chelsea Renea Morton

In this conversation with Associate Professor of Sociology Selina Gallo-Cruz and her co-author, Silvia shared her reflections on the human experiences that have shaped her scholarship, the continuities of capitalist discipline observed in her early advocacy, and how she makes sense of today’s compounding global crises. Published in Capitalism Nature Socialism.

November 11, 2024

Rising Import Tariffs, Falling Exports: When Modern Supply Chains Meet Old-Style Protectionism

Kyle Handley, Fariha Kamal, Ryan Monarch

Assistant Professor of Economics Ryan Monarch and co-authors examine the impacts of the 2018–2019 U.S. import tariff increases on U.S. exports through the lens of supply chain linkages. Published in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

November 11, 2024

Inefficient Concessions and Mediation

Kristy Buzard, Ben Horne

Associate Professor of Economics Kristy Buzard and her co-author open up a new rationale for mediation: to increase the efficiency of signaling in a preliminary round of negotiations and to overcome the concern that concessions could be used against the giver in the future. Published in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science.

November 4, 2024

Estimated Pulse Wave Velocity Is Associated With a Higher Risk of Dementia in the Health and Retirement Study

Kevin S. Heffernan, Janet M. Wilmoth, Andrew S. London

In this study, co-authors sociologists Janet Wilmoth and Andrew London, find that ePWV may be a novel research tool and biomarker of vascular aging that can be used in large, population-representative studies to examine cognitive aging and dementia risk. Published in the American Journal of Hypertension.

October 24, 2024

See related: Aging

Public Higher Education That Works: One College’s Path to Academic Success and Financial Stability

Mitchel B. Wallerstein

Mitchel Wallerstein ’72 M.P.A., dean of the Maxwell School from 2003 to 2010, has recently published “Public Higher Education That Works: One College’s Path to Academic Success and Financial Stability” (Teachers College Press, 2024).

October 17, 2024

See related: Education, New York State

Behavioural Patterns of Leaders versus Followers in Setting Local Sales Tax Policy

Jongmin Shon, Yilin Hou

Using a 40-year panel dataset from Texas, Yilin Hou and co-author identify leader municipalities in changing sales tax rates and examine how municipalities asymmetrically respond to multi-tiered rate changes. Published in Fiscal Studies: The Journal of Applied Public Economics.

October 16, 2024

Supply Chain Adjustments to Tariff Shocks: Evidence from Firm Trade Linkages in the 2018-2019 U.S. Trade War

Kyle Handley, Fariha Kamal, Ryan Monarch

Using confidential trade data, Ryan Monarch and co-authors show primary drivers of the decline in U.S. imports of tariffed goods were firm exits, discontinued buyer-supplier relationships, and reduced importing entry. Published in Economics Letters.

October 9, 2024

Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice

Farhana Sultana

Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment, has edited and contributed to this collection, which exposes how legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism co-produce and exacerbate the climate crisis, create disproportionate impacts on those who contributed the least to climate change, and influence global and local responses. (Routledge, 2024).

October 8, 2024

See related: Climate Change, South Asia

Riverine Citizenship: A Bosnian City in Love with the River

Azra Hromadžić

 In the book (Central European University Press, 2024), Azra Hromadžić, associate professor of anthropology, explores how residents of Bihać, a town in northwest Bosnia, mobilized to block construction of a hydroelectric dam on the Una River in 2015. 

October 1, 2024

See related: Europe, Sustainability, Water

Fringe Archaeology: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Past

Christopher DeCorse

In this book, Christopher DeCorse, Distinguished Professor and chair of anthropology, explores the intertwining of archaeology and popular culture, as well as depictions of archaeology in film and fiction. (Cognella Academic Publishing, 2024)

September 25, 2024

See related: Archaeology

Kids in Limbo: War, Uncertainty, and the School Experiences of Ukrainian Refugee Students in Poland

Iwona B. Franczak, Amy C. Lutz

Findings by Amy Lutz, associate professor of sociology, and Ph.D. student Iwona B. Franczak, suggest changes to family and school routines caused by the war hindered academic performance and social–emotional well-being of some Ukrainian school-age refugees regardless of mothers' advantageous socio-economic backgrounds. Published in Sociological Forum.

September 23, 2024

See related: Conflict, Education, Europe, Refugees

Parity and Post-Reproductive Mortality Among US Black and White Women: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study

Cheryl Elman, Angela M. O’Rand, Andrew S. London

Professor of Sociology Andrew London and co-authors examine non-Hispanic Black and White women, born 1920–1941, using zero-inflation methods to estimate infecundity risk and parity by race/ethnicity. Published in PLOS ONE.

September 23, 2024

Evidence-based Practices and US State Government Civil Servants: Current Use, Challenges, and Pathways Forward

Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, Leslie Thompson, Shuping Wang, Jules Marzec, Chengxin Xu, Weston Merrick, and Patrick Carter

This university-government-nonprofit collaborative research project aims to better understand how civil servants access and use evidence in their decision-making process. Published in Public Administration Review.

September 19, 2024

Public Health Measures Related to the Transmissibility of Suicide

Jane Pirkis, Jason Bantjes, Madelyn Gould, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Jo Robinson, Mark Sinyor, Michiko Ueda, Keith Hawton

In this paper, the fourth in a series on a public health approach to suicide prevention, Michiko Ueda-Ballmer and co-authors contend that the transmissibility of suicide must be considered when determining optimal ways to address it. Published in The Lancet Public Health.

September 18, 2024

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