Social distancing and stay-at-home measures provided scientists with a natural experiment to study social phenomena that hinge precisely on human mobility and contact — including criminal activity. A study by Center for the U.S. and Mexico experts and co-authors explores the relationship between COVID-19 and criminal activity in Mexico.
Sean Fiorella, Tony Payan, Daniel Potter, Rodrigo Montes de OcaJuly 23, 2023
This study finds that Maryland's all-payer model for healthcare comparatively lowered the risk of complications from surgery, as well as reducing increases in associated costs.
Anaeze C. Offodile II, Oluseyi Aliu, Andrew W. P. Lee, Jonathan E. Efron, Robert S. D. Higgins, Charles ButlerSeptember 28, 2021
This paper presents a stochastic bilevel disjunctive program for transmission investment planning. Published in Networks and Spatial Economics -- A Journal of Infrastructure Modeling and Computation.
Juan Rosellón, D. Khastieva, M. R. Hesamzadeh, I. VogelsangOctober 18, 2020
States with large African-American populations are more likely to have harsher incarceration practices, worse conditions of confinement and tougher policies toward juveniles compared with other states, according to a study led by Katharine Neill, the Alfred C. Glassell III Postdoctoral Fellow in Drug Policy.
Katharine Neill Harris, Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, John C. MorrisAugust 13, 2014
This article reviews the achievements and limitations of the G-20, analyzes the legitimacy issues that the group faces, and presents the basis of a proposal to create a Global Economic Coordination Council.
José Antonio Ocampo, Joseph E. StiglitzJanuary 25, 2012
