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Reports & Papers

The College of Social Science faculty is actively engaged in a variety of policy research and evaluation activities. Below are several Working Papers on policy topics of current interest. Please also visit the listing of on-going research projects conducted by the policy center faculty. Also, please visit the Social Science Research Institute website for a complete listing of the research awards and grants awarded to CSS faculty. To date the Center has produced the following reports:

  • "Report to the Joint Legislative Committe on Family Caregiving" (2008)
  • "Report to the Twenty-fourth Hawaii State Legislature on Open Government" 2007
  • "State Programs to Encourage Long Term Care Insurance" 2006
  • "Affordable Housing:  Public Policy Issues and Options"  2004
    " Evaluation of the First-to-Work Educational Policy and the Bridge to Hope Program"  2004
  • "Hawai'i at the Crossroads:  A Long-Term Energy Strategy"  2004
  • "Hawai'i Statewide Strategic Plan for Victim Services"  2005
  • "Hawai'i 2050 Sustainability Task Force Report"  with The Hawaii Institute for Public Affairs, December 2005

Working Papers

Workplace De-Lamping (PDF)

Author: Matthew Wolfe (May 2008)

Family Caregiver Tax Credits (PDF)

Author: David C. Nixon (January 2008)

Workplace Recycling (PDF)

Author: David C. Nixon (November, 2007)

Sustainable Saunders Survey (PDF)
Author: David C. Nixon (June 2006)

Report to the Twenty-fourth Hawaii State Legislature on Open Government

[Senate Resolution 107 (SD1)]

State Programs to Encourage Long Term Care Insurance (PDF)

Author: David C. Nixon (November 2006)

Affordable Housing: Public Policy Issues and Options (PDF)

Author: College of Social Sciences Public Policy Center (Feb. 2004)

Hawai'i at the Crossroads: A Long-Term Energy Strategy

Author: Hawaii Energy Policy Forum (June 2004)

Hawai'i 2050 Sustainability Task Force Report

(October 2005)

Arrest Trends, Gang Involvement, and Truancy in Hawaii: An Interim Report to the Twenty-Second Hawaii State Legislature (PDF)
Author(s): Meda Chesney-Lind, Lisa Pasko, Nancy Marker, Shayna Freeman and Joanne Nakano

People, Places and Policy: A Politically-Relevant Framework for Efforts to Reduce Concentrated Poverty and Joblessness (PDF)
Author: James H. Spencer

Understanding Gangs and Delinquency on Oahu Volume I (PDF)
Authors: Meda Chesney-Lind, Lisa Pasko, Nancy Marker, Pavela Fiaui, Steven Connery

Youth Service Center Evaluation Research Volume II (PDF)
Authors: Meda Chesney-Lind, Lisa Pasko, Nancy Marker, Pavela Fiaui, Steven Connery

The Underclass: Long-Term Unemployment, Race And Space In The American Context (PDF)
Authors: James H. Spencer and Michael Storper

Opportunity for State Legislatures (PDF)
Authors: Sen. Les Ihara, Jr.

How Safe are Hawaii's Schools? Volume I (PDF)
Authors: Meda Chesney-Lind and Joanne Nakano

 

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