Mexico’s Young Voters and the 2018 Elections
Mexico's 18-to-35 year old demographic, the largest voting bloc in the country, could have a historic impact at the polls…
March 13, 2018 3344 Results
Freestanding E.D.s & Urgent Care Ctrs
Are freestanding emergency departments (EDs) the same as urgent care centers? Vivian Ho, director of the Center for Health…
March 12, 2018 
Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East | Conflict Resolution and U.S. Foreign Policy | Issue Brief
Trump Policy in the Middle East: Syria This month, the Syrian Civil War will have lasted seven years. The authors of this brief explore how the United States —…
March 7, 2018 
Growth vs. Transactional Venture Capital in Houston, Texas
In this issue brief, the authors examine the amount of growth and transactional venture capital (VC) in Houston, finding the…
March 5, 2018 
Latin America Initiative | Commentary
Costa Ricans Vote on Sun. for New President The people of Costa Rica will face a dilemma when they vote for a new president on April 1, writes Erika de la Garza: In…
March 5, 2018 
Dynamic Estimates of the Macroeconomic Effects of the House Republican Tax Reform Blueprint
A numerical simulation of the macroeconomic effects of the House Republican Tax Reform plan, using the Diamond-Zodrow model…
March 1, 2018 
Apocalypse Now: Venezuela, Oil and Reconstruction
The outlook for the Venezuelan oil industry and the broader economic and political challenges facing the country are…
February 28, 2018 
Code Red: Venezuela’s Oil and Debt Crises
The economic and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela took a turn for the worse in the second half of 2017. Declines in oil…
February 28, 2018 
Mexico Shifts Focus to Natural Gas
Since 2010, Mexico’s demand for natural gas has been accompanied by a decline in domestic production, making imports of this…
February 22, 2018 
Market Competition and Health Outcomes in Hemodialysis
This study examines whether market competition affects quality of care and health outcomes among patients receiving dialysis…
February 22, 2018