Policy Research Areas
Our projects cover a variety of topics and fall broadly into the following research areas:
- Fiscal & Economics: These projects focus on topics related to federal and state economic affairs, such as property tax and development.
- Institutional: These projects explore the interplay between political institutions and policy.
- International: These projects focus on topics related to international and comparative research.
- Social: These projects focus on topics related to issues affecting human welfare such as education, health care access, race and inequality, and poverty.
- Sustainability: These projects focus on topics related to development policies that affect the resources and evironmental quality available to future generations.
- Urban: These projects focus on topics related to metropolitan areas such as crime, governance, transportation, sprawl, and urban economics.
- Washington Area: These projects focus on topics directly related to the District of Columbia and the Washington metropolitan area.
- Workforce Development: These projects focus on topics related to the improvement of federal workforce and education data offerings, federal student loan policies, and the nation's labor market credentialing system.