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Is there a real relationship between expensive houses and better public schools? A new report sheds light on the connection between property value and school quality. Families often choose the location of their next home by where their children will go to school. As the focus on school performance has become more astute thanks …
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The economic case for expanding preschool education for disadvantaged children is largely based on evidence from the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention in the lives of disadvantaged children in the early 1960s. In that program, children were randomly assigned to treatment and control group status and have been systematically followed through age 40. Information …
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Vacant and abandoned properties are burning a hole in the pockets of local governments, businesses, and individuals. The root of the problem may seem far beyond the control of local governments. The vacancies are often a result of larger forces, such as corporate decisions to transfer jobs overseas, or developers’ decisions to invest in sprawling …
State and local governments are major investors in the country’s streets and highways, bridges, ports, airports, commuter rail, bus and subway systems, water treatment and distribution, sewerage, solid waste management, police and fire stations and equipment, and courthouses. In many places they build hospitals and clinics, and some provide electric distribution or telephone service as …
People who are unhealthy earn lower incomes, put away fewer dollars in savings, and accumulate less wealth over the years compared to those who are healthy, a new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found. The research, conducted by researchers at the University of Georgia and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, …
This report describes the “bottom-line” economics of various programs that try to reduce criminal behavior. We identify the types of programs that can, as well as those that apparently cannot, reduce criminal offending in a cost-beneficial way. This research was prepared for the Washington State legislature. The legislature directed the Washington State Institute for Public …