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The Financial Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan : How Wartime Spending Decisions Will Constrain Future National Security Budgets

Bilmes, Linda - 2013

The Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, taken together, will be the most expensive wars in US history – totaling somewhere … equipment used in the wars and to support ongoing diplomatic presence and military assistance in the Iraq and Afghanistan region …. The large sums borrowed to finance operations in Iraq and Afghanistan will also impose substantial long-term debt …

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Early Math Coursework and College Readiness : Evidence from Targeted Middle School Math Acceleration

Dougherty, Shaun; Goodman, Joshua; Hill, Darryl; Litke, … - 2015

To better prepare students for college-level math and the demands of the labor market, school systems have tried to increase the rigor of students’ math coursework. The failure of universal “Algebra for All” models has led recently to more targeted approaches. We study one such approach in...

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Local Representation in the United States : A New Comprehensive Dataset of Elections

Warshaw, Christopher; Benedictis-Kessner, Justin de; … - 2022

The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack of centralized sources of election data. We introduce a new dataset of nearly 55,000 electoral contests that encompasses races for seven distinct local political offices in most medium and large cities...

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What Happened to the Soviet Superpower’s Nuclear Arsenal? Clues for the Nuclear Security Summit

Allison, Graham - 2012

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The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians

Borjas, George J. - 2013

It has been difficult to open up the black box of knowledge production. We use unique international data on the publications, citations, and affiliations of mathematicians to examine the impact of a large post-1992 influx of Soviet mathematicians on the productivity of their American...

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