The Spanish language creates a communication barrier with English speaking United States. Insular (Puerto Rican) politicians have resisted reform of Spanish (Peninsular) ancient regime business laws and associated colonial economic institutions. Colonial Spanish commercial civil code has allowed...

Common perception is that these bonds behave no differently than non-callable bonds due to call provision structure. However, make-whole callable bonds are almost twice as likely to be retired early as equivalent non-callable bonds. Analysis of which bonds/firms include make-whole call...

The Family Options Study: Three-year Impacts of Housing and Services Interventions for Homeless Families documents the outcomes of the 2,282 formerly homeless study families approximately 37 months after having been randomly assigned to one of four housing and/or services interventions. The...

This report presents the short-term outcomes of the families enrolled in the Family Options Study, a multi-site random assignment experiment designed to study the impact of various housing and services interventions on homeless families. The report documents how families are faring approximately...

The Understanding Rapid Re-housing study seeks to shed light on the current state of rapid re-housing (RRH) regarding participant outcomes as well as program practices in different types of communities. RRH, time limited rental assistance for people experiencing homelessness, is an increasingly...

The Family Options Study (2008-2016) is the largest experimental study of interventions for homeless families that has been conducted to date. The study produced strong evidence regarding the impacts of different housing and service interventions to address family homelessness, particularly the...