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Improving Health Care Quality and Values: Local Challenges and Local Opportunities by Katherine Baicker (Harvard School of Public Health) and Amitabh Chandra (Harvard Kennedy School) |
 2009 RAPPAPORT PUBLIC POLICY FELLOWS The 2009 Rappaport Institute Public Policy Fellows were chosen from five schools to participate in our 10-week summer fellowship. These students will work at state or local agencies for twelve weeks during the summer. (MORE) Antoniya Owens, a 2009 Summer Fellow, was featured on the Harvard Kennedy School's website, in "Student Researches the Effect of English Language Education on ESL Children." The fellows program was also featured on the Harvard Kennedy School's website in October, "Rappaport Fellows Think Globally, Act Locally" |
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BOSTON 101 SPRING SERIES BEGINS ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11 at 1:00 p.m. Alexander von Hoffman, Senior Fellow, Joint Center for Housing Studies and author of Wrestling with Growth in Acton, Massachusetts: The Possibilities and Limits of Progressive Planning will discuss his new case study on planning in Acton, Massachusetts. Toni Griffin, Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Eran Ben-Joseph, Associate Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT and author, The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making will offer commentary. 
NEW REPORT: Controlling the Cost of Municipal Health Insurance: Lessons from Springfield A report issued by the Edward J. Collins Jr. Center for Public Management at UMass Boston's McCormack School of Policy Studies and the Rappaport Institute documents the millions of dollars in annual savings achieved by the City of Springfield resulting from the decision of the Finance Control Board to transfer the City’s employees to the Commonwealth’s Group Insurance Commission (GIC). The report was authored by Robert L. Carey, an expert on Massachusetts health insurance costs. 
RAPPAPORT INSTITUE POLICY BRIEFS AND WORKING PAPERS: This spring the Rappaport Institute released three new Policy Briefs on health care, non-compete agreements, and inclusionary zoning.