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The Impact of Business Improvement Districts on Property Values: Evidence from New York CityEllen, Ingrid, Amy Ellen Schwartz and Ioan Voicu. …
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The High Cost of Segregation: Exploring Racial Disparities in High Cost LendingEllen, Ingrid, Vicki Been and Josiah Madar. …
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Enterprise Zones: Inner-city Panacea or Supply-Side Showpiece?Gerecke, S. with Charles M. Haar et al. …
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A critical Review of Race and Ethnicity in the Leadership Literature: Surfacing Context, Power and the Collective Dimensions of Leadership.Leadership studies focusing on race–ethnicity provide particularly rich contexts to illuminate the human condition as it pertains to leadership. Yet insights about the leadership experience of people of color from context-rich research within education, …
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Building Bridges from Margins: The Work of Leadership in Social Change OrganizationsAttention to the relational dimensions of leadership represents a new frontier of leadership research and is an expression of the growing scholarly interest in the conditions that foster collective action within and across boundaries. This article …
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The Behavioral Dimension of Governing Inter-Organizational Goal Directed Networks: Managing the Unity/Diversity TensionNetwork management research documents how network members engage in activities to advance their own goals. However, this literature offers little insight into the nature of work that aims to advance the goals of the network as a “whole.” By examining the …
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Paradox and Collaboration in Network Management. Administration and SocietyQualitative evidence from action networks is used to answer the research question, How do leaders of successful networks manage collaboration challenges to make things happen? This study of two urban immigration coalitions in the United States found that …
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Welcome to the Neighborhood: What can Regional Science Contribute to the Study of Neighborhoods?We argue in this paper that neighborhoods are highly relevant for the types of issues at the heart of regional science. First, residential and economic activity takes place in particular locations, and particular neighborhoods. Many attributes of those …
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Welcome to the Neighborhood: What Can Regional Science Contribute to the Study of Neighborhoods?We argue in this paper that neighborhoods are highly relevant for the types of issues at the heart of regional science. First, residential and economic activity takes place in particular locations, and particular neighborhoods. Many attributes of those …
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Crime and Urban Flight Revisited: The Effect of the 1990s Drop in Crime on CitiesThe ‘flight from blight' and related literatures on urban population changes and crime have primarily considered times of high or increasing crime rates. Perhaps the most cited recent work in this area, Cullen and Levitt (1999), does not extend through …
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Risk Management of Cost Consequences in Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution InfrastructuresSimonoff, J.S., Restrepo, C.E. & Zimmerman, R. …
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"Shaping Tomorrow Today: Evaluating and Implementing Long-Term Decisions"In March 2009, the RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition hosted a workshop called “Shaping Tomorrow Today: Near-Term Steps Towards Long-Term Goals.” The workshop gave policymakers and analysts an …
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Experience Goods and Expectational Traps: Bounded Rationality and Consumer Behavior in Markets for Medical CareSchlesinger, M., Stuckler, D. & Elbel, B. …
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How Much Choice? Nonlinear Relationships Between The Number of Health Plan Options and the Behavior of Medicare BeneficiariesSchlesinger, M. & Elbel, B. …
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Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and MexicoAt the turn of the twenty-first century, with the amount of money emigrants sent home soaring to new highs, governments around the world began searching for ways to capitalize on emigration for economic growth, and they looked to nations that already had …
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Sociodemographic and Behavioral Characteristics of HIV Antibody-Positive Blood DonorsThis paper describes the sociodemographic and behavioral characteristics of 173 blood donors who were confirmed by Western blot tests to have antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the etiologic agent for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome …
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Behavior Changes After Notification of HIV InfectionTo learn more about how people who did not volunteer for testing react to information about HIV infection, we assessed short-term behavior changes in HIV-positive blood donors. Methods. Blood donors who were notified at the New York Blood Center that they …
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Depressive Symptoms in Blood Donors Notified of HIV InfectionUnderstanding more about the psychological state of persons notified of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is critical for designing notification and counseling programs that will have the most positive effect. Methods. The subjects were blood …
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Recent Data Are Needed to Support Public Health Training and Workforce InitiativesA letter to the editor and a response to the letter by Nancy L. Van Devanter about the shortage of public health professionals and the need to support efforts to enhance public health training are …
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Social Science Research and School Finance PolicyInvestigates the impact of social science research on school finance policy in the U.S. Formulation of social science research to public policy; Perspectives in evaluating the policy impact of social science research; Strengths of the …
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Taxing Over Tax Limits: Evidence from the Past and Policy Lessons for the FutureIt is generally thought that across-the-board tax limits, white encouraging fiscal restraint, create hardships for jurisdictions with above average and uncontrollable needs. Because of the recent imposition of most limits, the conclusion is difficult to …