Maxwell Perspective: LDF in Lebanon
After four years of bringing young, English-speaking professionals from the Middle East and North Africa to the U.S. through the Leaders for Democracy Fellowship program, the State Department decided to expand the highly successful LDF program by offering a similar program based in one of its target countries. The Maxwell School was asked to develop this new program, in Arabic, to serve emerging leaders who may not be fluent in English or may not be able to travel to the United States. The natural location for the Arabic LDF program was the American University of Beirut (AUB), already a Maxwell partner in student exchanges
Mobility-Based Explanation of Crime Incentives
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Improving With Age
The study of gerontology at Syracuse — including research done in Maxwell’s Center for Policy Research — has gotten a boost with a new Aging Studies Institute and a named professorship. Already prominent, SU’s gerontological programs are poised for growth and greater recognition.
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Strategic substitutes or complements? The Game of Where to Fish
Financial Constraints on Corporate Goodness
Can Nonexperimental Estimates Replicate Estimates Based on Random Assignment in Evaluations of School Choice? A Within-Study Comparison
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Estimation of sample selection models with spatial dependence
Beyond the School Yard: Social Class Differences in Parenting and Youth Participation in Structured Activities
Alternative Technical Efficiency Measures: Skew, Bias and Scale
Social Science Methodology
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Does Small High School Reform Lift Urban Districts? Evidence from NYC
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Estimating the Effects of Length of Exposure to Instruction in a Training Program: The Case of Job Corps
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Tax Expenditures, the Size and Efficiency of Government, and Implications for Budget Reform
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Out of Many, One People: The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica
Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America