Policy Briefs
Who Becomes a Teacher? Racial Diversity in the K-12 to Teacher Pipeline, February 2023
Empowering Cities and Towns: The Baker-Polito Approach to Local Collaboration and Capacity Building, September 2022
Automatic Health Insurance Policies and Coverage Outcomes: Evidence from Massachusetts and Implications for ACA Reforms, February 2022
Scaling Auctions as Insurance: A Case Study of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, November 2021
Policy Recommendations to Address How Trauma, Mental Health & Substance Use Disorders Contribute to Incarceration, December 2019
Racial Diversity in the Teacher Pipeline: Evidence from Massachusetts, December 2019
Increasing Diversity in Boston's Exam Schools, October 2018
School District Turnaround: Learning from Leadership in Lawrence, Massachusetts, January 2018
Subsidizing Health Insurance for Low-Income Adults: Evidence from Massachusetts and Implications for Future Health Reforms, January 2018
Can Police Improve Homicide Clearance Rates?
November 28, 2017
Turning the Tide: Evidence on State Takeover and District Turnaround from Lawrence, Massachusetts,
April 13, 2016
City Hall's Technology Journey: Using Data to Improve the Lives of Citizens, April 4, 2016
The Sources of Boston Crime Guns, August 28, 2015
The Long-Run Impacts of Tracking High-Achieving Students
July 27, 2015
Talking with Mayor Marty Walsh: A City-Wide Town Hall
April 28, 2014
Greater Boston's Economy and the Entrepreneurial Age
February 26, 2014
Using Technology to Improve Transportation: All Electronic-Tolling and Beyond
October 19, 2013
First Degree Earns: The Impact of College Quality on College Completion Rates
September 18, 2012
Building Effective City-University Partnerships: Lessons from the Heartland
May 18, 2012
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Improving the Productivity of Massachusetts' Health Care Spending
May 14, 2012
The Impact of Rappaport Public Policy Fellows Program on Career Trajectories
November 7, 2011
Which Places Are Growing? Seven Notable Trends from Newly Released Census Data
March 25, 2011
How Massachusetts Can Stop the Public-Sector Virus
March 3, 2011
Did Credit Market Policies Cause the Housing Bubble?
May 5, 2010
Geography, Venture Capital, and Public Policy
March 24, 2010
What Makes a City Entrepreneurial?
February 22, 2010
Improving Health Care Quality and Values: Local Challenges and Local Opportunities
May 7, 2009
To Compete, or Non-Compete: The Effects of Employee Non-Compete Agreement
April 21, 2009
Silver Bullet or Trojan Horse: The Effects of Inclusionary Zoning on Local Housing Markets in Greater Boston
March 17, 2009
Reviewing Chapter 40B: What Gets Proposed, What Gets Approved, What Gets Appealed, and What Gets Built?
November 17, 2008
Reducing Youth Violence: Lessons from the Boston Youth Survey
June 15, 2008
The Greenness of Cities
March 5, 2008
The Seven Big Errors of PerformanceStat
February 11, 2008
Boston Bound: A Comparison of Boston's Legal Powers with Those of Six Other Major American Cities
December 15, 2007
The Impacts of Commuter Rail in Greater Boston
September 26, 2006
Hard Choices for the Next Governor
September 13, 2006
The Economic Impact of Restricting Housing Supply
May 22, 2006
Why Are Smart Places Getting Smarter?
March 15, 2006
Regulation and the Rise of Housing Prices
February 1, 2006
Local Services, Local Aid, and Common Challenges
November 2, 2005
Crowd Control That Can Kill: Can American Police Get a Grip on Their New "Less-Lethal" Weapons Before They Kill Again?
October 24, 2005
Creating an Effective Foundation to Prevent Youth Violence: Lessons Learned from Boston in the 1990s
September 26, 2005
Smart Growth: Education, Skilled Workers, and the Future of Cold-Weather Cities
April 27, 2005
Standards-Based Education Reform in the Computer Age: Lessons from Boston's Murphy School
March 5, 2005
Needed Corrections: Promising Strategies for Improving Massachusetts' Prisons and Jails
February 28, 2005
Betting the Future: The Economic Impact of Legalized Gambling
January 13, 2005
Can Social Capital Last? Lessons from Boston's Villa Victoria Housing Complex
November 3, 2004