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October 11, 2011

New research project focuses on injured veterans

A new research project funded by the Department of Defense, "Developing a Meaningful Life: Social Reintegration of Service Members and Veterans with Spinal Cord Injury," will focus on psycho-social issues associated with recovery from spinal cord injury. Investigators will survey military service members and veterans who survive battlefield trauma with spinal cord injuries in order to determine how they make the transition back to social participation with their families and communities. Dr. Seth Messinger (Sociology) is the principal investigator. This project is being conducted in partnership with Wayne State University.

Posted by Anne Roland on October 11, 2011 3:14 PM |

June 21, 2011

Understanding Maryland gamblers

Maryland’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) has released Gambling Prevalence in Maryland: A Baseline Analysis, prepared by a team from MIPAR. The team was led by Dr. Judith Shinogle, along with Dr. Donald F. Norris (Public Policy) and Dr. DoHwan Park (Mathematics and Statistics).

The survey of gambling habits and pathological gambling behaviors found that although gambling is largely a positive activity for Marylanders, 3.4% of Maryland adults experience problem or pathological gambling. The baseline study, mandated by a 2007 law that authorized video lottery terminals, provides a snapshot of the State’s gambling behaviors prior to the implementation of slot machine gambling.

In “Who Pays for the Maryland Lottery? Evidence From Point of Sale Data” Dr. Robert Carpenter (Economics), Dr. Donald F. Norris (Public Policy) and Ph.D student Evan Perlman used innovative GIS mapping of lottery terminal and census track data to explore the relationship between race, income, and lottery sales. Their findings show “the voluntary tax collected by the Maryland lottery comes disproportionately from census tracts populated by African Americans and low-income residents,” specifically those “with less than a high-school education, and people age 65 and older.” The article appears in The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics, Vol. 4, No. 1 (31-52).

Posted by Anne Roland on June 21, 2011 2:05 PM |

December 13, 2010

Dr. Nancy Miller on NPR

Public Policy Professor Nancy Miller discussed her research into nursing home populations in a story by Joseph Shapiro on National Public Radio, "The New Nursing Home Population: The Young." Listen to the story here.

Posted by Anne Roland on December 13, 2010 12:42 PM |

July 15, 2009

MIPAR and Hilltop receive Department of Education grant

MIPAR and The Hilltop Institute have been awarded a three-year, $590,000 research grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. The study will examine health care disparities in access and utilization among individuals with disabilities. Nancy Miller (Public Policy) is the principal investigator and project leader. Annette Snyder (Hilltop) and Adele Kirk (Public Policy) are co-investigators.

Posted by Anne Roland on July 15, 2009 3:27 PM |

June 26, 2009

Family Separation and Reunification as a Factor in the Educational Success of Immigrant Children

A new report about Latin American immigrants to the United States finds that family separation during migration has a negative impact on the educational success of immigrant children in schools.

Posted by Anne Roland on June 26, 2009 1:53 PM |