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Center for Energy Studies | Journal

What Can We Learn About Energy Access and Demand from Mobile-phone Surveys? Nine Findings From Twelve African Countries

The authors conducted mobile phone surveys on energy supply, demand and quality in 12 sub-Saharan African countries, finding…

February 20, 2018

Center for Health Policy | Issue Brief

Community Benefit Spending and the Tax-Exempt Status of Nonprofit Hospitals

A study comparing the community benefit expenditures of two sets of Houston hospitals leads the authors to propose…

February 8, 2018

Center for Energy Studies | Testimony

The Evolution of Energy Infrastructure in the United States and How Lessons Learned From the Past Can Inform Future Opportunities

Kenneth Medlock, senior director of the Center for Energy, testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural…

February 8, 2018

Center for Tax and Budget Policy | Working Paper

Bank Lending and Interest on Excess Reserves

Public finance fellow Thomas Hogan analyzes the relationship between bank lending and the Federal Reserve's policy of paying…

February 7, 2018

Center for Energy Studies | Issue Brief

Venezuela’s Oil Mythologies Have Hindered Its Development

Cultural myths — and by extension, the suppositions they inspire — have played a major role in shaping Venezuela's…

February 5, 2018

Center for Health Policy | Journal

Refinement of the Affordable Care Act

Vivian Ho, director of the Center for Health and Biosciences, examines some of the major reasons critics dislike the…

January 31, 2018

Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East | Issue Brief

Trump Policy in the Middle East: ISIS

This brief on the Trump administration's approach to the battle against ISIS is the first of a three-part series on America…

January 29, 2018

Center for Energy Studies | Issue Brief

Anti-Qatar Embargo Grinds Toward Strategic Failure

The list of 13 demands presented in June 2017 by Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates suggests a…

January 22, 2018

Latin America Initiative | Commentary

Corruption, Impeachment and a Pardon: A Political Crisis in Peru

Days after Peru's Congress nearly impeached the country's president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, he pardoned his authoritarian…

January 18, 2018

Center for Health Policy | Journal

Employment Among Patients Starting Dialysis in the United States

Nonresident scholar Kevin Erickson is a co-author of a study that examined trends in employment among patients initiating…

January 18, 2018