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Aiming Higher Together: Strategizing Better Educational Outcomes for Boys and Young Men of Color

This report is a literature review and critical analysis of factors contributing to ongoing underachievement of boys and young men of color in the US.

Closing the Opportunity Gap

The Saguaro Seminar is a research initiative that brings together leading thinkers and practitioners to develop actionable ideas for civic renewal.

Unhappy Cities

There are persistent differences in self-reported subjective well-being across U.S. metropolitan areas, and residents of declining cities appear less happy than other Americans.

Urban Networks: Connecting Markets, People, and Ideas

We study the tradeoff between megacities and networks of smaller cities in a model of recombinant growth and endogenous amenities.

Cell Phones and Motor Vehicle Fatalities Final Report

Urban Networks: Connecting Markets, People, and Ideas

Should China build mega-cities or a network of linked middle-sized metropolises? Can Europe’s mid-sized cities compete with global agglomeration by forging stronger inter-urban links?

Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures for Urban Life

New, “big” data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome variables higher frequencies and finer geographic scales than ever before. However, big data will not solve large urban so

Political Leadership and the Urban Poor

Based on survey research and ethnographic interviews, we analyze struggles over housing and access to infrastructure in two low-income "unplanned settlements" in the National Capital Region of Delhi,

Do People Shape Cities, or Do Cities Shape People? The Co- Evolution of Physical, Social, and Economic Change in Five Major U.S. Cities

Urban change involves transformations in the physical appearance and the social composition of neighborhoods.

Are Ballot Initiative Outcomes Influenced by the Campaigns of Independent Groups? A Precinct-Randomized Field Experiment Showing That They Are.

Ballot initiatives are consequential and common, with total spending on initiative campaigns in the US rivaling that of Presidential campaigns.