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At the Center for Policy Research (CPR), experts develop and translate knowledge that enables leaders to make meaningful policy decisions.
Visit our website: https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/cpr
Read our briefs: https://surface.syr.edu/cpr_policybriefs/
"For a lot of small towns, immigrants are the reason the school and hospital stayed open and the county didn’t shrink,” says CPR Director @smonnat.bsky.social in @apnews.com.
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As fewer people take tests or seek medical treatment for COVID infections, viral activity in wastewater has become a key way to measure transmission, says David Larsen, professor and chair of public health. “The wastewater becomes really essential,” he says. @cprmaxwell.bsky.social
Wrapping up #ABFM2026! CPR Senior Research Associate Yilin Hou will chair two sessions on public finance in China, and CPR Graduate Research Associate Jingni Zhang will present her research on the impact of EVs on gas tax revenue.
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More from #ABFM2026! Today, CPR members Michah Rothbart, Yilin Hou, and Qining Wang will be presenting their work on school spending, property tax, and budget implementation.
Check out their sessions below ⬇️
Day 1 at #ABFM2026! CPR Graduate Research Associates Jingni Zhang and Jingtao Wang will be presenting their work.
Check out their sessions below ⬇️
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Today at 3:30! Join us for a conversation with Gary Taubes about diet, disease, scientific controversy, and the limits of what health science can claim to know.
Learn more: www.maxwell.syr.edu/events/2026/...
“The U.S. must start thinking more about policies that promote population growth in addition to policies that help women control their fertility. Both are necessary for a healthy family planning program,” writes Professor Leonard Lopoo. @cprmaxwell.bsky.social
Join us in one week for the 38th Annual Lourie Lecture! Gary Taubes will discuss diet, disease, scientific controversy, and the limits of what health science can claim to know.
A paper led by CPR Senior Research Associate Badi Baltagi titled, "Time Invariant Variables in the Mundlak and Hausman–Taylor Panel Data Models" was published in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.
Read the paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A study co-authored by CPR's Rick Welsh finds that Conservation Reserve Program nesting season windows miss some grassland birds, including species of conservation concern, who nest earlier or later than the designated dates.
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"The Mundlak Estimator in a Panel Data Model with Serially Correlated Error Component Disturbances" by Badi H. Baltagi and Long Liu was added to the CPR Working Paper Series!
Read the paper: surface.syr.edu/cpr/535/