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Texas Senate Bill 8 significantly reduced travel to abortion clinics in Texas
(Frontiers Media, 2023-03-20)The Dobbs v. Jackson decision by the United States Supreme Court has rescinded the constitutional guarantee of abortion across the United States. As a result, at least 13 states have banned abortion access with unknown ... -
Time-delay control for stabilization of the Shapovalov mid-size firm model
(Elsevier, 2021-04-14)Control and stabilization of irregular and unstable behavior of dynamic systems (including chaotic processes) are interdisciplinary problems of interest to a variety of scientific fields and applications. Using the control ... -
Does Science Discriminate against Women? Evidence from Academia, 1973–97
(2001-02)This study uses data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients to evaluate differences in employment outcomes for academic scientists by gender. A decomposition of estimated salary differences shows that over time, gender ... -
Does Marriage Matter for Children? Assessing the Causal Impact of Legal Marriage
(2007-11)This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We exploit a dramatic marriage boom in Sweden in late 1989 created by a reform of the Widow’s Pension System ... -
Does Marriage Lead to Specialization? An Evaluation of Swedish Trends in Adult Earnings Before and After Marriage
(2010-07-13)We examine whether marriage leads to specialization in Sweden by implementing a model that differentiates specialization in the household by cohabitation and marriage. Our paper evaluates this model using panel data to ... -
Diversity in Academic Biomedicine: An Evaluation of Education and Career Outcomes with Implications for Policy
(2009-09-22)Currently, the U.S. population is undergoing major racial and ethnic demographic shifts that could affect the pool of individuals interested in pursuing a career in biomedical research. To achieve its mission of improving ... -
An Evaluation of the Kansas Bioscience Authority Economic Impact Measures
(2012-06)In the fall of 2011, the Kansas Bioscience Authority (KBA) requested that the University of Kansas Center for Science, Technology & Economic Policy at the Institute for Policy & Social Research provide a review of KBA’s ... -
The Impact of Postdoctoral Fellowships on a Future Independent Career in Federally Funded Biomedical Research
(2018-04)The Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) program is a major research training program administered by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with funds appropriated each year by Congress. This study ... -
Fathers' Multiple-Partner Fertility and Children's Educational Outcomes
(Duke University Press, 2022-01-13)Fathers' multiple-partner fertility (MPF) is associated with substantially worse educational outcomes for children. We focus on children in fathers' second families that are nuclear: households consisting of a man, a woman, ... -
Association Between State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Policies, Child Protective Services Involvement, and Foster Care in the US, 2004-2016
(American Medical Association, 2022-07-13)Importance: Public assistance policies may play a role in preventing child maltreatment by improving household resources among families of low incomes. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is one of the ... -
Reflections on race, ethnicity, and NIH research awards
(American Society for Cell Biology, 2021-12-23)It has been a decade since “Race, Ethnicity, and NIH Research Awards” was published. Receiving the American Society for Cell Biology Public Service Award allows me to reflect on this research and its impact. In this essay, ... -
Hurdles And Steps: Estimating Demand For Solar Photovoltaics
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Antitrust analysis with upward pricing pressure and cost efficiencies
(Public Library of Science, 2020-01-08)We investigate the accuracy of UPP as a tool in antitrust analysis when there are cost efficiencies from a horizontal merger. We include merger-specific cost efficiencies in a tractable manner in the model and extend the ... -
Publications as predictors of racial and ethnic differences in NIH research awards
(Public Library of Science, 2018-11-14)This research expands efforts to understand differences in NIH funding associated with the self-identified race and ethnicity of applicants. We collected data from 2,397 NIH Biographical Sketches submitted between FY ... -
Confidently Accessing Research in a Turbulent Time
(2019-04-23)This paper examines the insidious, largely ingrown, practices that have turned our most useful tool for sharing the fruits of our research, the scholarly communications system, into a bit of a mess. It reviews the ... -
Publications as predictors of racial and ethnic differences in NIH research awards
(Public Library of Science, 2018-11-14)This research expands efforts to understand differences in NIH funding associated with the self-identified race and ethnicity of applicants. We collected data from 2,397 NIH Biographical Sketches submitted between FY 2003 ... -
Estimating the Output Gap for Saudi Arabia
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2017)The objective of this paper is to estimate annual potential output growth and the output gap for the Saudi economy over the period 1980 to 2015, looking at both total output and non-oil output. The focus on the latter is ... -
Has the Dollar Peg Served the Saudi Economy Well?
(Macrothink Institute, 2017)There are three major objectives of this paper: first, to examine the various exchange rate regimes and arrangements that have emerged over the last 40 years since the collapse of the Bretton Woods Agreement, focusing ... -
The Impact of Women’s Health Clinic Closures on Fertility
(MIT University Press, 2019)In recent years, the government of Texas has enacted multiple restrictions and funding limitations on women’s health organizations affiliated with the provision of abortion services. These policies have caused numerous ... -
With and without the tracks: how railroad access impacts gas price elasticity
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-03)Since 2011, gas prices have fallen 43%, raising the question of how different communities adjust their vehicle miles traveled. Data from the National Household Travel Survey’s EPA fuel economy database and the Energy ...