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Research, Publications, and Reports

New Williams et al. Research on Improving Survey Inference

Dr. Sharifa Z. Williams, Assistant Professor, and colleagues found nonresponse in probability surveys creates challenges, but their new 2-step method leverages continuous auxiliary data for better estimates—while protecting confidentiality.

Heldrich Policy Brief: Approaches to Workplace DEI Policies

A new policy brief by Jessica Starace, Survey Research Manager at the Heldrich Center, summarizes two approaches in which the project findings may be used by policymakers, researchers, employers, and workers for their own research needs:

Bhuyan Co-Authors New ABCD UrbanSat Study

This comprehensive dataset provides an important tool for advancing neurobehavioral research on urbanicity during the critical developmental periods of childhood and adolescence.

SRTS Report: Bicycle and Pedestrian Involved Crashes in NJ

Pedestrians and cyclists face a higher risk of severe injury or death in crashes compared to motorists. In New Jersey, there were nearly 6,000 crashes that involved pedestrians and cyclists under the age of 18 years old between 2016 and 2020.

Heldrich Report: Examining Student Outmigration in NJ

The New Jersey Statewide Data System (NJSDS), formerly the New Jersey Education to Earnings Data System (NJEEDS), is the State of New Jersey’s centralized longitudinal data system for public administrative data.

New Research on Residential Solar Panel Adoption

The results suggest that the relative advantage factors – electricity prices and solar irradiation – play the most significant role across all regions and market segmentations. Statewide policy indicators are the second most significant factor, followed by socio-economic variables on employment status, remote working, car ownership, and property value.

Hetling and McFarland (PP ’24) Acknowledged for TANF Research

The authors conducted an analysis to
determine the extent to which Maryland‘s TCA program incorporates trauma-informed principles into the program. Tables 21 and 22 segment results by trauma-informed domains that were introduced in the Assessment Tools chapter. These domains are part of the Trauma-Informed TANF Evaluative Toolkit based on Dr. Andrea Hetling’s 2019 research.

Homelessness in New Brunswick and Programs to Address It

This report identifies the challenges that emergency service organizations and their clients are experiencing as they attempt to access, or consider accessing, the existing service infrastructure and to identify areas of unmet need.

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