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Additional Materials from Urban Institute: Policy Briefs
Title: Local Government Discretion and Accountability in Sierra Leone
Authors: Benjamin Edwards, Serdar Yilmaz, Jameson Boex
Date: March 2014Title: Unemployment and Unemployment Protection in Transition
Authors: Vera Brusentsev, Wayne Vroman
Date: April 2008Title: An Urban-Rural Focus on Food Markets in Africa
Authors: Clare Romanik
Date: November 2007Title: Stabilizing Future Fiscal Policy: It's Time to Pull the Trigger
Authors: Rudolph G. Penner, C. Eugene Steuerle
Date: August 2007Title: Replacement Rates and UC Benefit Generosity
Authors: Wayne Vroman
Date: July 2007Title: Comprehensive Services for Survivors of Human Trafficking: Findings from Clients in Three Communities
Authors: Laudan Y. Aron, Janine M. Zweig, Lisa C. Newmark
Date: June 2006Title: Growth in the Exclusion of Employer Health Premiums
Authors: Adam Carasso
Date: June 2005Title: Extension of Saving and Investment Incentives
Authors: Eric Toder
Date: June 2005Title: Race, Ethnicity, and Health
Authors: Kenneth Finegold, Laura Wherry
Date: March 2004Title: Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Well-Being
Authors: Kenneth Finegold, Laura Wherry
Date: March 2004Title: Health Insurance Coverage of Children in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families
Authors: Randolph Capps, Michael E. Fix, Genevieve M. Kenney
Date: November 2003Title: Children of Immigrants Show Slight Reductions in Poverty, Hardship
Authors: Rudolph Capps, Michael E. Fix, Jane Reardon-Anderson
Date: November 2003Title: Immigrants and TANF: A Look at Immigrant Welfare Recipients in Three Cities
Authors: Karen Tumlin, Wendy Zimmermann
Date: October 2003Title: Budget Crisis at the Door
Authors: Rudolph G. Penner, C. Eugene Steuerle
Date: October 2003Title: A Profile of the Foreign-Born in the Portland, Oregon Tri-County Area
Authors: Michael Fix, Katherine Lotspeich, Jason Ost, Dan Perez-Lopez
Date: October 2003Title: A Profile of the Foreign-Born in the Nashville Economic Market
Authors: Michael Fix, Katherine Lotspeich, Jason Ost, Dan Perez-Lopez
Date: October 2003Title: A Profile of The Foreign-Born in Lowell, Massachusetts
Authors: Michael Fix, Katherine Lotspeich, Jason Ost, Dan Perez-Lopez
Date: October 2003Title: Trends in Naturalization
Authors: Michael E. Fix, Jeffrey S. Passel, Kenneth Sucher
Date: September 2003Title: Options to Finance the Additional War Costs
Authors: Leonard Burman, Jeff Rohaly
Date: September 2003Title: Contracting with NGOs for Social Services: Building Civil Society and Efficient Local Government in Russia
Authors: Raymond Struyk
Date: September 2003Title: Unemployment Protection in Chile
Authors: Wayne Vroman
Date: August 2003Title: The New Neighbors: A User’s Guide to Data on Immigrants in U.S. Communities
Authors: Randolph Capps, Michael E. Fix, Jeffrey S. Passel, Dan Perez-Lopez
Date: August 2003Title: A Comparison of Military and Civilian Approaches
Authors: Carol J. De Vita, Maria D. Montilla
Date: July 2003Title: The Gender Impact of Pension Reform in Latin America—and Broader Policy Implications
Authors: Alejandra Cox Edwards, Estelle James, Rebeca Wong
Date: June 2003Title: Participation in a Decentralized Housing Allowance Program in a Transition Economy
Authors: Tatiana Lykova, Ekaterina Petrova, Sergei Sivaev, Raymond J. Struyk
Date: May 2003Title: Budget Blues: The Fiscal Outlook and Options for Reform
Authors: Alan J. Auerbach, William G. Gale, Peter Orszag, Samuel R. Potter
Date: May 2003Title: Russia's Winter Woes: Tariff Setting for Local Utilities in a Transition Economy
Authors: Valentin Andrianov, Emin Askerov, Sergei Sivaev, Raymond J. Struyk
Date: April 2003Title: The Enron Debacle: Lessons for Tax Policy
Authors: Jane G. Gravelle
Date: February 2003Title: How Are Immigrants Faring After Welfare Reform?: Preliminary Evidence from Los Angeles and New York City - Final Report
Authors: Randolph Capps, Michael Fix, Chris Furgiuele, Leighton Ku, Scott McNiven, Jeffrey Passel, Dan Perez-Lopez, Rajeev Ramchand
Date: February 2003Title: The Health and Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families
Authors: Randolph Capps, Michael Fix, Jame Reardon-Anderson
Date: November 2002Title: The Dispersal of Immigrants in the 1990s
Authors: Randolph Capps, Michael Fix, Jeffrey Passel
Date: November 2002Title: The Community Capacity Fund: Understanding its Role in Strengthening the Washington, D.C. Region After 9/11
Authors: Rachel Mosher-Williams
Date: September 2002Title: Immigrant Well-Being in New York and Los Angeles
Authors: Randolph Capps, Michael E. Fix
Date: August 2002Title: Measuring Unemployment Benefit Recipiency in New Zealand
Authors: Wayne Vroman
Date: July 2002Title: Managing Think Tanks: A Practical Guide for Maturing Organizations
Authors: Raymond J. Struyk
Date: May 2002Title: Limited English Proficient Students and High-Stakes Accountability Systems
Authors: Michael Fix, Jorge Ruiz-de-Velasco
Date: April 2002Title: Mortgage Default Insurance in the U.S.: Implications for Russia
Authors: Raymond Struyk, Douglas Whiteley
Date: March 2002Title: Exploring Organizations and Advocacy: Governance and Accountability
Authors: Maria D. Montilla, Elizabeth J. Reid
Date: February 2002Title: The Scope and Impact of Welfare Reform's Immigrant Provisions
Authors: Michael Fix, Jeffrey Passel
Date: January 2002Title: Strengthening Local Administration of Social Assistance in Russia
Authors: L. Jerome Gallagher, Raymond J. Struyk
Date: November 2001Title: Russian Nonprofits as Contracted Providers of Municipal Social Services: Initial Experience
Authors: Kirill Chagin, Raymond J. Struyk
Date: August 2001Title: Exploring Organizations and Advocacy: Strategies and Finances
Authors: Maria D. Montilla, Elizabeth J. Reid
Date: August 2001Title: The Integration of Immigrant Families in the United States
Authors: Michael Fix, Jeffrey Passel, Wendy Zimmermann
Date: July 2001Title: Australian Unemployment Protection: Challenges and New Directions
Authors: Vera Brusentsev, Wayne Vroman
Date: July 2001Title: Are Immigrants Leaving California? Settlement Patterns of Immigrants in the Late 1990s
Authors: Jeffrey S. Passel, Wendy Zimmermann
Date: April 2001Title: Hardship Among Children of Immigrants: Findings From the 1999 National Survey of American Families
Authors: Randolph Capps
Date: February 2001Title: Local Administration of Social Assistance Programs in Russia
Authors: Burton Richman, Raymond J. Struyk
Date: October 2000Title: Consumer-Directed Home and Community Services Programs in Five Countries: Policy Issues for Older People and Government
Authors: Alison Evans Cuellar, Jane Tilly, Joshua M. Wiener
Date: October 2000Title: Regional Economic Development in Eastern Europe: An Example from Poland
Authors: Sharon Cooley, Raymond Struyk
Date: July 2000Title: Illegal Aliens in Federal, State, and Local Criminal Justice Systems
Authors: Scott Anderson, Rebecca Clark
Date: June 2000Title: Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Key Findings from the National Survey of America's Families
Authors: Sarah Staveteig, Alyssa Wigton
Date: February 2000Title: Civil Society, the Public Sector, and Poor Communities
Authors: Kingsley G. Thomas, James Gibson
Date: August 1999Title: The Number and Cost of Immigrants on Medicaid: National and State Estimates
Authors: Bethany Kessler, Leighton Ku
Date: September 1998Title: The Future of the Public Sector--The Challenges for Policy Research in a Changing Environment
Authors: George Galster
Date: September 1998Title: Immigrants in New York: Their Legal Status, Incomes, and Taxes
Authors: Rebecca L. Clark, Jeffrey S. Passel
Date: April 1998Title: Immigrant Families and Public Policy: A Deepening Divide
Authors: Michael Fix, Wendy Zimmermann
Date: January 1996