Wilcoxen paper on carbon taxes and fiscal reform in the US published in National Tax Journal
See related: Climate Change
Heflin study on CACFP and food insecurity published in Social Services Review
See related: Food Security
Yinger paper on hedonic markets and sorting equilibria published in Journal of Urban Economics
See related: Housing
Jales article on peer effects in the Brazilian school system published in Applied Economics
Schwartz study on neighbourhood mobility and student outcomes published in Urban Studies
See related: Education
Lerner Center Receives NYS Health Foundation Healthy Neighborhood Initiative Grant
The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth), in strategic partnership with the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion at The Maxwell School, has selected six communities across New York State for grant awards totaling $2 million to help them become healthier, more active places where residents of all ages can thrive.
Ideas for Tomorrow
The Tenth Decade Project will support programs to prepare Maxwell for the challenges of its second century, with citizenship (broadly understood) at its core.
See related: Centennial, Giving
Amazing Lives
A fully renovated and upgraded Eggers Hall public events room now honors the parents of alumnus Joseph Strasser.
See related: Centennial, Giving, School History
Look Who’s 90
Last fall, the Maxwell School’s year of 90th-anniversary celebrations started big, with an array of special scholarly events, a school-wide 1920s-themed party, and a star-studded celebration in the nation’s capital.
See related: Centennial, School History
Lutz study on social class and parents' relationship to homework published in Int Jour of Edu & SSc
Rosenthal chapter published in Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics
Schwartz chapter on productivity in education published in Handbook of Research in Edu Finance & Pol
WP 177 Adaptive Elastic Net GMM Estimation with Many Invalid Moment Conditions
WP 178 Estimation and Identification of Change Points in Panel Models
Schewe study on family labour on New Zealand organic dairy farms published in Sociologia Ruralis
See related: Agriculture
Jerusalem: Conflict and Cooperation in a Contested City
See related: Middle East & North Africa
Democracy and Conflict Resolution: The Dilemmas of Israel’s Peacemaking
Using the contested theory of "democratic peace" as a foundational framework, the contributors explore the effects of a variety of internal influences on Israeli government practices related to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking: electoral systems; political parties; identity; leadership; and social movements.
See related: Government, Middle East & North Africa
The Pragmatic Enlightenment: Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire