Research Analysis
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Developing Efficiency: Why energy efficiency gains in China may not be fully realized
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The rebound effect, which measures the increased demand for energy from increasing energy efficiency, is found to be strong in Chinese urban residential electricity use.
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Conditional Demand Analysis: A cheap and effective approach to modeling residential energy usage
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The statistical technique of conditional demand analysis allows Canadian researchers to cheaply estimate residential appliance savings and help policymakers structure behavioral and technological conservation programs.
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The Billion Dollar Question: Are Counter-Terrorism Efforts Effective?
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A review of counter-terrorism evaluation research raises critical questions about lack of evidence for costly programs and strategies.
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Collaboration and Competition in Counterterrorism
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Nations that claim to cooperate on counterterrorism may in fact be competing for safety.
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Learned Behavior: With Parents in Prison, Do Children Develop Lasting Bad Health Habits?
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With more and more parents in prison, what can we expect of their children’s health outcomes as adults?
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Good Schools, Low Taxes, and Access to Medicaid?
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Researchers at Harvard University find little evidence that people migrate to become eligible for Medicaid.
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Understanding Medicaid’s Effects on New Enrollees: A Qualitative Approach
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The authors utilize an alternative methodological approach—one that emphasizes qualitative research—in order to better understand how newly insured individuals interact with the healthcare system.
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Ms. Mayor: The Impact of Female Leaders on Social Welfare Spending in Cities
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Recent research reveals a positive relationship between female mayors and funding for social welfare programs.
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Flipping the Script on What Causes City Green Initiatives
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Researchers find new data that contradict their previously held belief that cities push for community-wide green sustainability programs for their cost-saving benefits.
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Can Different Learning Activities Bring Out Students’ Unseen Academic Potential?
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Problem-based learning units can help teachers identify students with advanced academic potential whose giftedness might otherwise be ignored.
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Widening the Gap: China’s Land Reform and Gender Disparities
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The main culprit for China’s gender gap expansion in the early 1980s might have been the post-Mao land reform rather than the One Child Policy.