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Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East | Conflict Resolution and U.S. Foreign Policy | Policy Brief

A Strategy Toward Defeating ISIS

The Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris demonstrated a change in strategy by the Islamic State — a willingness to strike…

January 3, 2016

Center for Health Policy | Health Economics | Issue Brief

HRMS Issue Brief #16: Characteristics and Changes in Rates of the Uninsured in Texas and the United States as of September 2015

The rate of adults without health insurance across the U.S. dropped nearly twice as much as in Texas from 2013 to 2015…

December 17, 2015

Center for Health Policy | Global Health | Policy Brief

Mosquito-transmitted Epidemics: Dengue, Chikungunya and West Nile in the United States and Mexico

This policy brief urges collaboration between the United States and Mexico to address widespread epidemics of mosquito…

December 16, 2015

Center for Tax and Budget Policy | Working Paper

Modeling U.S. and Foreign Multinationals in an OLG-CGE Model

In this working paper, fellow John Diamond and Rice faculty scholar George Zodrow describe the Diamond-Zodrow model, which…

December 9, 2015

Center for Energy Studies | Report

Summary: Water and Energy Workshop

This paper summarizes the presentations and discussions at May 14, 2015, workshop on water-energy interdependence and…

December 7, 2015

Center for Energy Studies | Working Paper

Robust Dynamic Energy Use and Climate Change

This working paper studies optimal taxation in a dynamic stochastic economy in which there is uncertainty about the effects…

December 4, 2015

Health Economics | Center for Health Policy | Newsletter

Making HIV Testing Routine

Why don't physicians talk to their patients about recommended HIV screening tests?

December 3, 2015

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

Contraceptive Choice Among Women in the Middle East

Modern contraceptive methods, such as condoms, can be stigmatized in Middle Eastern culture due to their perceived…

December 3, 2015

Latin America Initiative | Commentary

Social Conflicts and Environmental Liabilities in Peru

Social unrest over the extraction of Peru’s natural resources has increasingly heightened, as evident in the intensity of…

December 1, 2015

Center for Health Policy | Global Health | Journal

Impact of the Neglected Tropical Diseases on Human Development in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Nations

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) play a critical role in hindering the advancement of the world's Muslim-majority…

November 25, 2015