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Approaches to Homelessness Prevention
This policy brief is a project for the Burlington Housing Authority (BHA) conducted by the Rockefeller Centers Policy Research Shop. The goal is to provide information about three distinct Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Initiatives for the BHA. Drawing on three case studies, the brief…
Vermont Local Transportation Facilities (LTF) Process
This report assesses the effectiveness of the Local Transportation Facilities (LTF) program in Vermont. It finds that while the program is useful for relatively large and not pressing infrastructure developments, it can be overly burdensome and inflexible for municipalities with immediate needs or smaller scale…
Shared Decision Making in Health Care Delivery
The goal of this report is to provide an overview of shared decision making as a health care practice and related policy options for the state of New Hampshire. Through evaluation of current research and salient case studies, this report seeks to highlight the opportunities…
Claremont Housing Inventory Project
The City of Claremont, New Hampshire approached the Rockefeller Centers Policy Research Shop about methods for surveying housing stock in the city. At that time, Claremont had just received a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grant with provisions attached to its award…
Knowledge Regimes and Comparative Political Economy
<a href="http://openarchive.cbs.dk/bitstream/handle/10398/7352/wp%20cbp%202008-48.pdf?sequence=1">International Center for Business and Politics (48): 1-28</a>Author(s): John Campbell and Ove PedersenComparative political economy has been dominated since the 1970s by two waves of research. The first one examined how different types of policy-making regimes affect policy making and, in turn, national economic…
Renewable Energy Incentives
This report assesses the suitability of two renewable energy incentive programs, property tax exemptions and Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE), for Lebanon, New Hampshire. We find that property tax exemptions are popular in theory but are seldom claimed in the New Hampshire municipalities that currently…
A New Hampshire State Carbon Tax
There is currently an ongoing debate in the United States Congress over the Environmental Protection Agency’s jurisdiction in regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Due to competing interests, a federal policy regulating the emissions has yet to pass through Congress. Many experts believe that it is the…
The Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility
This report examines the effects and implications of the 1996 New Hampshire law that transferred seventeen-year-old offenders to the adult criminal justice system. It analyzes the benefits and drawbacks of this decision with the available budget and recidivism data. The report also compares New Hampshires…
Letters rhyme
<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/87565641.2010.549985?journalCode=hdvn20">Developmental Neurophysiology 36(3): 302-318</a>Author(s): Donna Coch, Priya Mitra, Elyse George, Natalie BergerEvent-related potentials (ERPs) and behavioral accuracy judgments were recorded in a letter name rhyming paradigm (e.g., A-J versus A-B) with 6- to 8-year-old beginning readers and adults. A typical N450 rhyming effect was evident for both…
New Hampshire State Mental Health Services
This report analyzes data obtained through research of past literature, consumer satisfaction survey analysis, and original interviews with mental health providers. The objective is to provide relevant information about past and present mental health services in New Hampshire, the impact of recent budget cuts on…