Third Ward Comprehensive Needs Assessment Data Report
This report is the culmination of a 16-month-long survey of residents in Houston's Third Ward. The data aims to inform…
October 25, 2019 3340 Results
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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