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  • As the national political conventions approach, voters are beginning to zero in on who will be their choice for President of the United States this fall. A survey of Illinoisans indicates interesting reactions to some of the stark differences between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.

    Posted August 2008

    Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 7:48am
  •  This is an op-ed piece written by IGPA Director Robert F. Rich in April 2007.

    Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - 10:34am
  • his study develops and estimates a model of the naturalization process in the United States. The model is based on both the characteristics of immigrants and features of their countries of origin. The empirical analysis is based on the 2000 US Census. Both the characteristics of immigrants and the origin-country variables are shown to be important determinants of citizenship status. The individual characteristics that have the most influence are educational attainment, age at migration, years since migration, veteran of the U.S.

    Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 10:10am
  • Regardless of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, which banned discrimination on the basis of race/ethnicity in the sale and rental of housing, now 40 years later, patterns of housing segregation in the Chicago metropolitan area have changed little. Despite being illegal, discrimination in housing persists, albeit somewhat less frequently and often in more subtle ways than in the past (e.g., Turner et al, 2002).

    Monday, July 14, 2008 - 11:00pm
  • This paper applies the quantile regression methodology to the study of the determinants of the distribution of earnings among the native born and immigrants in the United States and Australia. The analysis for immigrants is performed separately for those from English-speaking and non-English speaking origins. Using Census data, the quantile regressions permit the measurement of the partial effect of explanatory variables (such as schooling and experience) and the native born-immigrant earnings differential at the different deciles of the earnings distribution.

    Monday, June 30, 2008 - 11:00pm
  •  In May 2008, a public opinion survey was conducted on the attitudes and opinions of Illinois residents regarding higher education. Areas investigated included the overall value of a college degree in today’s economy, assessment of the State’s colleges and universities, issues pertaining to costs of attendance and financing the State’s colleges and universities, as well as future investment priorities for higher education in Illinois.

    Monday, June 23, 2008 - 11:00pm
  • The demand for long-term care is large and growing rapidly throughout the nation. In Illinois alone there are almost 800 nursing homes with more than 100,000 beds. In addition, about 1.24 million family caregivers provide more than 1.33 billion hours of care each year, conservatively valued at more than $13 billion. Clearly, both the formal and informal long-term care sectors are quite large. Less evident is that both sectors will need to expand and function very well, both separately and together, to meet the predicted growth in demand over the next decades.

    Sunday, June 1, 2008 - 11:00pm
  • More than two years after medical malpractice liability reform first took effect in Illinois, its uncertain fate continues to preoccupy policy makers, the public, and, most of all, the interest groups that have been lobbying for or against the measure. On August 25, 2005, Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed into law Senate Bill 475, the principal provision of which limits the amounts that juries can award for pain and suffering.1 The law was primarily intended to curb the growth of medical malpractice insurance premiums.

    Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 11:00pm
  • America's political leaders too often fall to the temptation to put politics ahead of careful study, reflection and discipline in the decisions they make, Sen. Richard G. Lugar said as he accepted the Paul H. Douglas Ethics in Government Award from the University of Illinois during a Washington, D.C. ceremony on April 8, 2008. 

    Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 11:00pm