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Urban Change and Poverty -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- Contents -- PART I COMMITTEE REPORT -- Overview -- SUMMARY FINDINGS -- Well-Being and Poverty -- Urban Economies -- Urban Finance -- Urban Governance -- Infrastructure -- SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS -- Urban Economies: Long-Term Transformation and Regional Disparities -- Urban Finances: Healthier Than in the Recent Past -- Urban Poverty: Growing More Concentrated -- Well-Being and Poverty -- ECONOMIC STATUS -- CENTRAL-CITY POVERTY -- CHANGES IN FAMILY STRUCTURE -- Feminization of Poverty -- Growth of Female-Headed Families -- THE URBAN UNDERCLASS -- SUMMARY -- Urban Economic Trends -- URBAN GROWTH -- THE LARGEST CITIES -- COMPARISONS AMONG METROPOLITAN COUNTIES -- SUMMARY -- Urban Fiscal Conditions -- RECENT FISCAL TRENDS -- SUMMARY -- Trends in Urban Governance -- Urban Infrastructure -- NATIONAL EXPENDITURE TRENDS -- INFRASTRUCTURE CONDITION -- TAX-EXEMPT BOND MARKETS -- SUMMARY -- Policy Implications -- URBAN POVERTY -- REGIONAL DECLINE -- URBAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT -- REFERENCES -- Appendix A: Regional Classifications -- Appendix B: Workshop Participants -- PART II BACKGROUND PAPERS -- Income, Opportunities, and Quality of Life of Urban Residents -- CITIES AND ECONOMIC WELL-BEING -- TRADITIONAL MEASURES OF WELL-BEING -- Large Metropolitan Areas -- Central-City, Suburban, Small Metropolitan, and Rural Areas -- Residential Area, Family, and Race -- Residential Area, Age, Earnings, and Transfers -- EARNINGS DETERMINATION -- Framework -- Empirical Model and Results -- QUALITY-OF-LIFE COMPARISONS -- Economic Status and Quality Of Life -- Labor Markets, Housing Markets, and Quality Of Life -- Quality of Life In Metropolitan Areas -- CONCLUSIONS -- References -- Family Structure, Poverty, and the Underclass -- INTRODUCTION AND CONCLUSIONS -- PREVALENCE, GROWTH, AND CAUSES OF MOTHER-ONLY FAMILIES.

FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I: Workshop Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Changing Policy Context -- 3 Federal Surveys -- 4 Administrative Databases -- 5 State Data Collections -- 6 Modeling Strategies for Improving Estimates -- 7 Looking Ahead -- References -- Part II: Background Papers -- 8 Monitoring Children's Health Insurance Coverage Under CHIPRA Using Federal Surveys--Genevieve Kenney and Victoria Lynch -- 9 Health Insurance Coverage in the American Community Survey: A Comparison to Two Other Federal Surveys--Joanna Turner and Michel Boudreaux -- 10 Income and Poverty Measurement in Surveys of Health Insurance Coverage--John L. Czajka -- 11 Using Uninsured Data to Track State CHIP Programs--John McInerney -- 12 The Massachusetts Experience: Using Survey Data to Evaluate State Health Care Reform--Sharon K. Long -- 13 Small-Domain Estimation of Health Insurance Coverage--Brett O'Hara and Mark Bauder -- Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants -- Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members -- Committee on National Statistics.

Front Matter -- Preface -- Papers on International Conflict Resolution -- INTRODUCTION -- DEVELOPING AN ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR A CONTINGENT THEORY OF ELECTORAL SYSTEM DESIGN -- THE WORLD OF ELECTORAL SYSTEMS -- THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PROCESS WHICH LED TO THE CHOICE OF ELECTORAL SYSTEM -- ELECTORAL SYSTEMS AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT -- CONCLUSIONS -- ADVICE FOR POLICY MAKERS -- REFERENCES -- NOTES.

FrontMatter -- Contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction--Barney Cohen -- Section I--The Nature of Racial and Ethnic Differences -- 2 Racial and Ethnic Identification, Official Classifications, and Health Disparities--Gary D. Sandefur, Mary E. Campbell, and Jennifer Eggerling-Boeck -- 3 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Mortality Among the U.S. Elderly Population--Robert A. Hummer, Maureen R. Benjamins, and Richard G. Rogers -- 4 Ethnic Differences in Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease--Jennifer J. Manly and Richard Mayeux -- Section II--Two Key Conceptual and Methodological Challenges -- 5 The Life-Course Contribution to Ethnic Disparities in Health--Clyde Hertzman -- 6 Selection Processes in the Study of Racial and Ethnic Differentials in Adult Health and Mortality--Alberto Palloni and Douglas C. Ewbank -- 7 Immigrant Health: Selectivity and Acculturation--Guillermina Jasso, Douglas S. Massey, Mark R. Rosenzweig, and James P. Smith -- Section III--The Search For Causal Pathways -- 8 Genetic Factors in Ethnic Disparities in Health--Richard S. Cooper -- 9 Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Health--Eileen M. Crimmins, Mark D. Hayward, and Teresa E. Seeman -- 10 The Role of Social and Personal Resources in Ethnic Disparities in Late-Life Health--Carlos F. Mendes de Leon and Thomas A. Glass -- 11 What Makes a Place Healthy? Neighborhood Influences on Racial/ Ethnic Disparities in Health over the Life Course--Jeffrey D. Morenoff and John W. Lynch -- 12 Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Behaviors: A Challenge to Current Assumptions--Marilyn A. Winkleby and Catherine Cubbin -- 13 Cumulative Psychosocial Risks and Resilience: A Conceptual Perspective on Ethnic Health Disparities in Late Life--Hector F. Myers and Wei-Chin Hwang.

PRIVATE LIVES AND PUBLIC POLICIES -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- STUDY GOALS AND SCOPE -- GUIDING PRINCIPLES -- DEMOCRATIC ACCOUNTABILITY -- CONSTITUTIONAL EMPOWERMENT -- INDIVIDUAL AUTONOMY -- KEY FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- STATUTORY PROTECTION AGAINST MANDATORY DISCLOSURE OF INDIVIDUALLY IDENTIFIABLE DATA -- BARRIERS TO DATA SHARING WITHIN GOVERNMENT -- ACCESS TO DATA BY NONGOVERNMENT USERS -- PRIVACY CONCERNS AND DECLINING COOPERATION IN SURVEYS -- STATISTICAL PROCEDURES TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY -- CROSS-CUTTING RECOMMENDATIONS -- 1 Principles and Problems -- THE TENSION BETWEEN PRIVATE LIVES AND PUBLIC POLICIES -- STUDY GOALS AND SCOPE -- HOW DOES THE FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM FUNCTION? -- KEY DEFINITIONS -- DATA SUBJECTS AND DATA PROVIDERS -- INFORMATIONAL PRIVACY -- CONFIDENTIALITY AND DATA PROTECTION -- INFORMED CONSENT AND NOTIFICATION -- DISCLOSURE -- ADMINISTRATIVE AND STATISTICAL DATA -- WHAT PRINCIPLES SHOULD GUIDE STATISTICAL AGENCIES? -- DEMOCRATIC ACCOUNTABILITY -- CONSTITUTIONAL EMPOWERMENT -- INDIVIDUAL AUTONOMY -- THE SPECIAL ROLE OF FEDERAL STATISTICAL AGENCIES -- DATA ACCESS IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY -- PROBLEMS IN ENSURING CONFIDENTIALITY AND DATA ACCESS -- DO STATISTICAL AGENCIES HAVE ADEQUATE AUTHORITY TO PROTECT DATA? -- CAN COMMUNICATION WITH THE PUBLIC BE IMPROVED? -- ARE DATA PROVIDERS PROPERLY NOTIFIED OR INFORMED? -- ARE CURRENT CONFIDENTIALITY AND DATA ACCESS LAWS ADEQUATE AND APPROPRIATE? -- HOW CAN NONGOVERNMENT USERS BE GIVEN ACCESS TO DATA WHILE PRESERVING CONFIDENTIALITY? -- CAN INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL DATA BE PROVIDED FOR PUBLIC USE? -- CAN LEGITIMATE NEEDS FOR DATA SHARING WITHIN GOVERNMENT BE MET? -- STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT -- NOTES -- 2 The Framework of Study -- EVOLUTION OF THE FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM -- EARLIER STUDIES OF PRIVACY, CONFIDENTIALITY, AND DATA ACCESS.

Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Government Statistics Program in Context -- 3 Data Users and Uses -- 4 Data Quality and Statistical Methods -- 5 Dissemination and Analysis -- 6 Challenges for the Future -- References -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Governments Division Census and Surveys -- Appendix B Reimbursable Programs -- Appendix C Letters on the Taxable Property Value Survey -- Appendix D Summary of Presentations of Public Interest and Other User Groups -- Appendix E Meeting and Workshop Agendas -- Appendix F Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff -- COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL STATISTICS.

Intro -- FrontMatter -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Figures, Tables, and Boxes -- Summary -- 1 The Long-Term Challenge -- 2 Framing the Choices -- 3 Fiscal Prudence -- 4 Choices for a Sustainable Budget -- 5 Options for Medicare and Medicaid -- 6 Options for Social Security -- 7 Options for Defense and Other Domestic Spending -- 8 Revenue Options -- 9 Multiple Paths to Sustainability -- 10 Fiscal Stewardship: A Budget Process for the Long Term -- 11 What Should Be Done Now? -- References -- Appendix A: Fiscal Sustainability -- Appendix B: Baseline Assumptions and Estimates -- Appendix C: Social Security Options -- Appendix D: Defense and Other Domestic Spending: Program Options -- Appendix E: Revenue Options and Their Implications -- Appendix F: Constructing Multiple Paths to Sustainability -- Appendix G: International Experience with Long-Term Budgeting -- Appendix H: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff.

Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- OVERVIEW -- Introduction -- The Health Context -- Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Program -- Strengths and Limitations of the Some of the Main Actors -- Too Much Money Too Soon? -- What Could Be Different Next Time? -- References -- Appendix A Chronology of Selected Developments and Events in East Timor -- Appendix B Illustrative Memorandum of Understanding for Implementation of a District Health Plan -- Appendix C Bibliographic Materials -- Appendix D About the Authors.