The Effect of State and Local Fiscal Policy on Local Economic Development
Provide a synthesis and critique of current knowledge and research on 1) the factors driving local economic growth and development a
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Historically, business leaders have played a major role in the building, rebuilding, and public policy of major American cities. However, recent urban
Job-Centered Welfare: Review and Planning for UK/US Exchange
A key element of British welfare reforms is a program of linking social assistance for working-age persons with efforts to work by collocating welfare
Intra-Metropolitan Area Fiscal Capacity Disparities and the Property Tax: The Washington DC Region
The study adapts a methodology developed by the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, to calculate disparities in the revenue capacity
High Performance Bonus Data for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
Since April, 2002 the Office of Family Assistance of the Administration for Children and Families has contracted with GWIPP for consultative services on a range
Since the founding of the United States, interaction between the Supreme Court and other political actors has been an important element of the American political landscape.
Back Home from Prison: Understanding Why Offenders Recidivate
With more than 600,000 prisoners returning to society each year, the issue of prisoner reentry is at the forefront of domestic public policy.
Thin the Soup or Shorten the Line: Choices Facing Washington Area Nonprofits
Research on the state of non-profit human services agencies in the Washington, D.C. region during changing economic conditions showed that non-profits
The Economics of Open Access Journals
A new business model for scholarly journals, open access, has gained wide attention recently. An open-access journal's articles are available over the Internet
Improving Prediction and Causal Inference with Graphical Methods and Models
This project explores the utility of various graphical models and methods, in particular causal graph theory, social networks and random graphs