Policy Research Institute

Urban Program
Research Awards

2006-07

Cynthia Osborne:
Is marriage protective for all children?

David Eaton:
Water supply investment: Brownsville-McAllen Metropolitan

Jacqueline Angel:
Conference on Aging in the Americas: Mexico and the United States

2005-2006

Bill Spelman:
Local Industrial Policy and the Urban Portfolio

David Eaton:
How Can Mexico-Texas Sister-City Emergency Aid Agreements Be Improved for the 21st Century?

Shama Gamkhar:
Federal Highway Program: Can Reforms in the Funding Mechanisms Resurrect the Federal Role in Highways?

Shama Gamkhar:
Strategic Choices in Capital Markets: The Implication of Subsidizing Borrowing by School Districts in Selected States

2004-2005

David Eaton:
Urban Metropolitan Study.

Jacqueline Angel:
The Role of Health Care Non-Governmental Organizations in Latin American Cities.

Shama Gamkhar:
Enforcement of Pollution Control Laws and Firm Level Compliance in India with Comparative Perspectives from the United States.

2003-2004

Jacqueline Angel:
The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Providing Health Services in Latin American Cities.

Peter Ward:
Integrating Remote Sensing and GES into an Inventory of Colonias-type Housing throughout the U.S.

2002-2003

Lodis Rhodes:
Multi-Year Study of Community and Public Policies.

Peter Ward:
The "Meaning" of Land Ownership: Land Regularization and the Policy Implications of Clean Title in Texas Colonias.

Shama Gamkhar:
Capital Financing by Public Schools: Inequalities and Their Performance Nexus.

2001-2002

William Spelman:
Inside the Beltway Building: A Council Member's Casebook.

Jacqueline Angel:
A Comparison of Community-Based Long Term Case Systems in Latino and Non-Latino Communities: The Role of Local Partnerships.

Peter Ward:
Pushing the Policy Envelope Outside the Border: Colonias Texas and Beyond.

Shama Gamkhar:
Some Implications of the Distribution of School District Capital Resources in Texas.

2000 - 2001

David Eaton:
Emergency Medical Services in City of Austin and Travis County, Texas: An Assessment of Demand, Response and Performance.

Richard Schott:
Ethnic Relations in Austin.

Jacqueline Angel:
Policy Implications of the Health of Older Latinos.

Lodis Rhodes:
Pilot Test for Field Experiment.

Shama Gamkhar:
Federal Intergovernmental Grants and the State: Managing Devolution.

Victoria Rodríguez:
Women, Gender, and Public Policy.

1999 - 2000

David Eaton:
Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services System in Central Texas.

Richard Schott:
Ethnic Relations in the City of Austin.

Lodis Rhodes:
Developing a National Collaborative for the Development of Knowledge Networks in Urban Communities.

Peter Ward:
Cardenas and the PRD's Record as First Elected Government of the Distrito Federal, 1997-2000.

Shama Gamkhar:
Fragmentation of Local Government Debt in Texas.