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Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East | Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and Refugees | Issue Brief

The End of the Largest Resettlement Program in the World?

Fellow Kelsey Norman examines the U.S. refugee resettlement system, which the Trump administration is steadily dismantling.

October 25, 2019

Claudio X. González Center for the US and Mexico | Issue Brief

Initial Indicators for Mexico’s Anticorruption Efforts: Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer 2019

Using findings from Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer, the author analyzes public perceptions of…

October 23, 2019

Center for Health Policy | Health Economics | Journal

Freestanding Emergency Department Entry and Market‐level Spending on Emergency Care

The authors investigate the relationship between the number of freestanding emergency departments entering a local market…

October 22, 2019

Claudio X. González Center for the US and Mexico | Report

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement: Textiles, Apparel, and Agriculture

The USMCA will have potentially significant impacts for the textiles and apparel industry, but the free agricultural trade…

October 21, 2019

Texas Politics | Research Paper

2019 Houston Mayoral Survey

This report, produced in collaboration with the University of Houston's Hobby School of Public Affairs, analyzes findings of…

October 20, 2019

Science and Technology Policy | Commentary

Another All-male Lineup for the Science Nobels: Is It Time to Stop Caring?

Despite internal changes in how scientists are nominated for the Nobel Prize, there is still a substantial gender bias in…

October 14, 2019

Center for Energy Studies | Research Paper

Too Much of a Good Thing: Subsidy Reform and Tax Increases Defy Academic Theory on the Rentier Middle East

Recent developments in the oil kingdoms of the Middle East demonstrate that rentier governments are engaging their citizens…

October 10, 2019

Center for Tax and Budget Policy | Report

Should There Be a Soda Tax?

Soda taxes have been proposed to help curb consumption and improve health outcomes. Fellow Joyce Beebe reviews recent…

October 7, 2019

Claudio X. González Center for the US and Mexico | Research Paper

Corruption and Democracy in Mexico: An Empirical Analysis

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has pledged to end corrupt practices in Mexico. Yet some of his other goals — such as…

October 3, 2019

Center for Energy Studies | Research Paper

Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Resource-Rich Regions

Indigenous natural resource wealth can provide a basis for robust economic development and broad macroeconomic development…

October 1, 2019