Maxwell School News and Commentary

Amy Ellen Schwartz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs, and her co-authors found that from 2005 to 2008, high school students who joined New York City’s summer jobs program were more likely to take, pass and earn higher scores on the Regents exams.

"This is obviously a really dynamic area of the law," says William C. Banks, professor of public administration and international affairs. "It’s a rapidly changing area of policy and law in states. It’s challenging for legislatures to keep up with the changes in technology — what you can do with your telephone or your gadget that’s hardly visible."

"Theoretically, cash back should be the best rewards currency, since the rewards can be used practically anywhere," says Don Dutkowsky, professor of economics. "But that only holds when the value of the rewards (for a given amount of purchases) of cash back and product/service-based rewards (e.g., airline miles, automobile discounts) are the same." 

Logan Strother '13 M.A. (PSc)/'17 Ph.D. (PSc) describes the NFIP as "a classic moral hazard, where people are shielded from the consequences of their actions and taxpayers pick up the burden."

"It was clear from the circumstances that the framework we had been using in the West and in Israel was ineffective because the fighting was of a new kind," says Professor Emeritus William C. Banks.

Sarah Pralle, associate professor of political science, talks about why Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps don’t tell the true story of where floods are happening now and in the future.

Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, says it's too early to discount potential candidates' chances in the 2020 presidential election.

"Many people want the National Flood Iinsurance Program (NFIP) to make flood insurance 'affordable.' And so, Congress will almost certainly continue kicking the NFIP can down the road," writes Logan Strother '13 M.A. (PSc)/'17 Ph.D. (PSc).