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Public attention has focused on especially Black Housing Choice Voucher Recipients' (HCVRs) residential mobility and whether and to what extent crime is influenced as a result. This paper adds to the growing empirical literature on this question by focusing on the race of HCVRs and examining whether changes in Black HCVRs presence in suburban areas over time is followed by changes in crime rates among the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the country. Multiple data sources are used to examine this question including data on voucher holders from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Picture of Subsidized Housing, on crime from the Uniform Crime Report (UCR) Offenses Known and Cleared by Arrest compiled by the FBI, and on important demographic data from the Census Bureau. First difference regression methods as well as lead and lag dependent (and independent) variable analysis, among other methods, are used to assess whether Black HCVRs influence crime in suburban areas. The results of the analysis indicate no support for the Black HCVRs – suburban crime hypothesis, consistent with previous research. The evidence indicates positive, statistically significant relationships between White HCVRs and suburban crime. However, lead and lag analysis suggests the relationship is not causal. If anything, the evidence points to White HCVRs moving to suburban areas where crime is increasing. Fears of increased crime resulting from increased presence of HCVRs are therefore not well supported by the studies' results, and should allay any concerns about unintended crime costs of the HCV program.

Since 1990. Based on 1990 Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) data from the US Census for the Washington, DC area, where suburbanization has coincided with suburban job growth.

The role of the instructor is, and always will be, a critical one. Until now, though, mediating a course to a self-paced, programmed learning environment frequently has neglected the fact that the instructor will have to alter teaching methods to a great extent in order to cope with the new situation. Further, without a thorough understanding of the role to be played out, the instructor could actually destroy even the best of courses. This report studies the changeover of United States Air Force technical training course 3ABR25130 Weather Specialist from group-lock step to self-paced programmed learning. A background of both military technical training and the specific course are given as well as a thorough discussion of attitudes expressed by instructors through the use of a seventy-three item open-ended questionnaire. The effort focuses on attitudes that curriculum designers and administrators must be cognizant of in order to design courses and materials that both student and instructors can live with.

"Do Prisons Make Us Safer? asks whether it makes sense to maintain such a large and costly prison system. The contributors expand the scope of previous analyses to Include a number of underexplored dimensions, such as the fiscal impact on states, effects on children, and employment prospects for former inmates." "The United States currently imprisons a greater proportion of its citizens than any other nation in the world. Until now, however, we have lacked systematic and comprehensive data on how this prison boom has affected families, communities, and our nation as a whole. Do Prisons Make Us Safer? provides a highly nuanced and deeply engaging account of one of the most dramatic policy developments in recent U.S. history."--Jacket

Der Wandel und die Veränderung von Gesellschaften und ihren Ökonomien ist inzwischen Leitbild der Entwicklung geworden. Dies gilt gerade auch für die Länder, die im Jahr 2004 der EU beitreten. Für die Länder des ehemaligen Ostblocks wie z.B. Polen kommt eine weitere Komponente mit der Überwindung sozialistischer Strukturen hinzu, die zusätzliche Anforderungen bei der Bewältigung dieses Strukturwandels stellt. Die Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Berlin / Brandenburg / Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in der ARL hat daher eine Arbeitsgruppe gebildet, die sich diesem Strukturwandel vergleichend für die ostdeutschen Bundesländer und Westpolen gewidmet hat. In der Arbeitsgruppe konnten für die Bereiche der räumlichen Planung, der Wirtschaftsstruktur und der Agrarstruktur Analysen für diese Regionen erarbeitet werden, die den Stand und die Entwicklung des Strukturwandels darstellen.

This article examines the effect of the Massachusetts workforce development system on the earnings of disadvantaged adults using nonexperimental data from the late 1990s. The authors construct a comparison sample for program participants using individuals who apply for and are offered services yet do not participate in a training program. They present a series of difference-in-difference estimates that make several alternative efforts to correct for selectivity bias, including econometric models that regression adjust for observable characteristics and fixed-effect models that adjust for time-invariant person effects. They also employ probabilistic matching techniques to more finely align the treatment and comparison samples. On average, program participants experienced 20% increases in annual earnings 1 year postintervention and 25% increases after 2 years. The authors uncover considerable heterogeneity in these effects, suggesting that the most difficult to serve and the most job ready benefit the least.