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The Effects of College Counseling on High-Achieving, Low-Income Students
(2009)
This paper reports the results of a pilot study, using a randomized controlled trial to provide college counseling to high-achieving students from relatively poor families. We followed 107 high school seniors through the ...
Toward a Framework for Understanding Forces that Contribute to or Reinforce Racial Inequality
(Springer-Verlag, 2009)
For many years social scientists have debated the role of social structure versus culture in explaining the social and economic outcomes of African Americans. The position that one takes often reflects ideological bias. ...
Linking International Agricultural Research Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Development
(National Academy of Sciences, 2009)
We applied an innovation framework to sustainable livestock development research projects in Africa and Asia. The focus of these projects ranged from pastoral systems to poverty and ecosystems services mapping to market ...
Evolution of Models to Support Community and Policy Action with Science: Balancing Pastoral Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation in Savannas of East Africa
(National Academy of Sciences, 2009)
We developed a “continual engagement” model to better integrate knowledge from policy makers, communities, and researchers with the goal of promoting more effective action to balance poverty alleviation and wildlife ...
Funding Economic Development: A Comparative Study of Financial Sector Reform in Vietnam and China
(United Nations Development Programme and Fulbright Economics Teaching Program, 2009)
Although there is considerable debate among economists as to the impact of financial sector development on economic growth, empirical evidence indicates a strong, direct link between the two. A recent comprehensive review ...
Reducing the Greatest Risks of Nuclear Theft and Terrorism
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2009)
Keeping nuclear weapons and the materials needed to make them out of terrorist hands is critical to U.S. and world security - and to the future of nuclear energy as well. In the aftermath of a terrorist nuclear attack, ...
Enabling a Nuclear Revival — And Managing its Risks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2009)
Matthew Bunn and Martin B. Malin examine the conditions needed for nuclear energy to grow on a scale large enough for it to be a significant part of the world’s response to climate change. They consider the safety, security, ...
Securing Nuclear Stockpiles: The First Line of Defense in Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
(The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 2009)
Vertical Networks, Integration, and Connectivity
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
This paper studies competition in a network industry with a stylized two layered network structure, and examines: (i) price and connectivity incentives of the upstream networks, and (ii) incentives for vertical integration ...
Environmental Effects of International Trade
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)
The report surveys the state of our knowledge regarding the effects of trade on the environment. A central question is whether globalization helps or hurts in achieving the best tradeoff between environmental and economic ...