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Prof. Rubin: Redefining the Meaning of Disability
My daughter’s experiences at Rutgers have made me more sensitive to the negative impact of such taken-for-granted practices on neurodivergent students, an awareness that I plan to share with other faculty members.
Homelessness in New Brunswick and Programs to Address It
This report identifies the challenges that emergency service organizations and their clients are experiencing as they attempt to access, or consider accessing, the existing service infrastructure and to identify areas of unmet need.
New Research on Car-Ownership During and After COVID-19
Using a multilevel Hurdle model with month and state random effects, vehicle ownership trends are separately modeled for car-owning and carless households within the same modeling framework, while accounting for endogeneity and unobserved heterogeneity.
EJB Talks: Irina Grafova on Medical Debt & Provider Burnout
Stuart Shapiro interviews Associate Professor Irina Grafova about her research on medical debt and its impact on family finances, as well as her work on provider burnout, particularly among nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
NJSPL Survey: What Policy Issues Interest You Most?
The New Jersey State Policy Lab is pleased to announce the launch of our newest survey, which we invite you to complete. This survey, which will take just a couple of minutes to complete, encourages respondents to indicate the policy issue or issues they believe...
Newest Community Development Graduate Fellows
Miranda Alperstein (MCRP ’25) and Saul Ruddick-Schulman (MCRP ’25) were recently selected as 2024-25 Morgan Stanley Community Development Graduate Fellows.
What is your Municipality’s Cybersecurity Posture?
In this latest installment of Tech Fitness for Local Elected Officials and Administrators, Marc Pfeiffer explains that there is no one-size-fits-all set of controls for every technology environment.
Dr. Will Payne Examines Consequences of Review Bombing
This article uses spatiotemporal analysis of Yelp review activity to depict and analyze the shifting catchment areas of local businesses, as measured through the locations of their reviewers over time and across review categories (Recommended, Not Recommended, and Removed).
Cannabis Policy Impacts Public Health and Health Equity
A new report from the NASEM Health and Medicine Division explores the public health implications of changes in cannabis policy. The report calls for leadership at the federal level, makes specific recommendations for needed research, and more