Center for Policy Analysis

Predicting the status of 35 sustainable development goal indicators in Indian villages: a semi-supervised machine learning approach for precision public policy

Background National and district-level monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in India obscures substantial inequalities at finer geographic resolutions, such as villages. While villages are central to service delivery and local governance, village-level estimates...

Characterizing the Landscape of Loss: A Spatiotemporal Contextual Approach to Measuring U.S. County-Level Depopulation

In recent decades, the United States has experienced substantial changes in population size, composition, and distribution. As growth has slowed, population loss has taken on increased salience, presenting an emerging social, economic, and political challenge and highlighting a n...

Changes in Emergency Department Pediatric Readiness, Inpatient Services, and Excess Child Deaths

Importance Emergency department (ED) pediatric readiness and pediatric inpatient services have changed over time in many hospitals, but the impact of these changes on pediatric outcomes is unclear. Objective To evaluate pediatric mortality associated with changes to ED pediatric...