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Are community colleges beneficial in general?
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Among community college students, degree completion and upward transfer rates are both low. But two-year institutions boost the mobility and the earnings of low-income students.
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Why the Supreme Court was right
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Disadvantaged students need affirmative action, but the concept of disadvantage should be holistic, placing more weight on a person’s class and less weight—if any—on this person’s race.
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Making Rochester a knowledge economy? Beware of unintended consequences
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New research points to a causal connection between the rise of knowledge-intensive activities and an increase in economic segregation in urban areas.
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E-cigarettes and three key public policy questions
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New research sheds some light on questions like these: Are e-cigarettes better or worse than cigarettes and should we tax or subsidize them?
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To reduce adult crime, invest more in early childhood education
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New econometric analysis credibly demonstrates that investments in early childhood education diminish adult criminality and that the benefits flow disproportionately to high-poverty areas.