作者：Ringquist, EJ
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Over the past decade activists, academics, and policymakers have devoted a great deal of attention to environmental equity, or the notion that sources of potential environmental risk may be concentrated among racial and ethnic minorities and the poor. Despite these efforts, the existence and extent of environmental inequities is still the subject of intense scholarly debate. This manuscript reports the results from a meta-analysis of 49 environmental equity studies. The analysis demonstrates t...
作者：McKernan, SM; Bernstein, J; Fender, L
作者单位：Urban Institute
摘要：This paper presents an overall approach, statistical techniques, and a public-use database that can be used for understanding state welfare policies and measuring their relationship with key outcomes of interest, all while learning helpful statistical techniques. We use descriptive statistics and correlations to describe state policies. We find tremendous variation in the types of job entry-related policies states adopted, and that state time limit policies tended to be consistently lenient or...
