@BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change", isbn = "978-0-309-14597-8", abstract = "Climate change, driven by the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, poses serious, wide-ranging threats to human societies and natural ecosystems around the world. The largest overall source of greenhouse gas emissions is the burning of fossil fuels. The global atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the dominant greenhouse gas of concern, is increasing by roughly two parts per million per year, and the United States is currently the second-largest contributor to global emissions behind China.\nLimiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change, part of the congressionally requested America's Climate Choices suite of studies, focuses on the role of the United States in the global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The book concludes that in order to ensure that all levels of government, the private sector, and millions of households and individuals are contributing to shared national goals, the United States should establish a \"budget\" that sets a limit on total domestic greenhouse emissions from 2010-2050. Meeting such a budget would require a major departure from business as usual in the way the nation produces and uses energy-and that the nation act now to aggressively deploy all available energy efficiencies and less carbon-intensive technologies and to develop new ones.\nWith no financial incentives or regulatory pressure, the nation will continue to rely upon and \"lock in\" carbon-intensive technologies and systems unless a carbon pricing system is established-either cap-and-trade, a system of taxing emissions, or a combination of the two. Complementary policies are also needed to accelerate progress in key areas: developing more efficient, less carbon-intense energy sources in electricity and transportation; advancing full-scale development of new-generation nuclear power, carbon capture, and storage systems; and amending emissions-intensive energy infrastructure. Research and development of new technologies that could help reduce emissions more cost effectively than current options is also strongly recommended.\n ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12785/limiting-the-magnitude-of-future-climate-change", year = 2010, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine and National Research Council", title = "The Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities: A Workshop Report", isbn = "978-0-309-21934-1", abstract = "Early childhood care and education (ECCE) settings offer an opportunity to provide children with a solid beginning in all areas of their development. The quality and efficacy of these settings depend largely on the individuals within the ECCE workforce. Policy makers need a complete picture of ECCE teachers and caregivers in order to tackle the persistent challenges facing this workforce. The IOM and the National Research Council hosted a workshop to describe the ECCE workforce and outline its parameters. Speakers explored issues in defining and describing the workforce, the marketplace of ECCE, the effects of the workforce on children, the contextual factors that shape the workforce, and opportunities for strengthening ECCE as a profession.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13238/the-early-childhood-care-and-education-workforce-challenges-and-opportunities", year = 2012, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Public Transportation's Role in Addressing Global Climate Change", abstract = "TRB\u2019s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Results Digest 89: Public Transportation\u2019s Role in Addressing Global Climate Change provides an overview of an International Transit Studies Program mission that investigated public transportation\u2019s role in addressing global climate change in several cities in Ireland, Germany, Italy, and Spain.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/23056/public-transportations-role-in-addressing-global-climate-change", year = 2009, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Record Linkage Techniques -- 1997: Proceedings of an International Workshop and Exposition", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6491/record-linkage-techniques-1997-proceedings-of-an-international-workshop-and", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "High Schools and the Changing Workplace: The Employers' View", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18490/high-schools-and-the-changing-workplace-the-employers-view", year = 1984, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Katharine G. Abraham and Constance F. Citro and Glenn D. White, Jr. and Nancy K. Kirkendall", title = "Reengineering the Census Bureau's Annual Economic Surveys", isbn = "978-0-309-47536-5", abstract = "The U.S. Census Bureau maintains an important portfolio of economic statistics programs, including quinquennial economic censuses, annual economic surveys, and quarterly and monthly indicator surveys. Government, corporate, and academic users rely on the data to understand the complexity and dynamism of the U.S. economy. Historically, the Bureau's economic statistics programs developed sector by sector (e.g., separate surveys of manufacturing, retail trade, and wholesale trade), and they continue to operate largely independently. Consequently, inconsistencies in questionnaire content, sample and survey design, and survey operations make the data not only more difficult to use, but also more costly to collect and process and more burdensome to the business community than they could be.\n\nThis report reviews the Census Bureau's annual economic surveys. Specifically, it examines the design, operations, and products of 11 surveys and makes recommendations to enable them to better answer questions about the evolving economy.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25098/reengineering-the-census-bureaus-annual-economic-surveys", year = 2018, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Preparing for an Aging World: The Case for Cross-National Research", isbn = "978-0-309-07421-6", abstract = "Aging is a process that encompasses virtually all aspects of life. Because the speed of population aging is accelerating, and because the data needed to study the aging process are complex and expensive to obtain, it is imperative that countries coordinate their research efforts to reap the most benefits from this important information. Preparing for an Aging World looks at the behavioral and socioeconomic aspects of aging, and focuses on work, retirement, and pensions; wealth and savings behavior; health and disability; intergenerational transfers; and concepts of well-being. It makes recommendations for a collection of new, cross-national data on aging populations\u2014data that will allow nations to develop policies and programs for addressing the major shifts in population age structure now occurring. These efforts, if made internationally, would advance our understanding of the aging process around the world.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10120/preparing-for-an-aging-world-the-case-for-cross-national", year = 2001, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Dale W. Jorgenson and Charles W. Wessner", title = "Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy: Report of a Workshop", isbn = "978-0-309-08298-3", abstract = "Sustaining the New Economy will require public policies that remain relevant to the rapid technological changes that characterize it. While data and its timely analysis are key to effective policy-making, we do not yet have adequate statistical images capturing changes in productivity and growth brought about by the information technology revolution. This report on a STEP workshop highlights the need for more information and the challenges faced in measuring the New Economy and sustaining its growth.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10282/measuring-and-sustaining-the-new-economy-report-of-a-workshop", year = 2002, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "John H. Bryant and Polly F. Harrison", title = "Global Health in Transition: A Synthesis: Perspectives from International Organizations", isbn = "978-0-309-05595-6", abstract = "For many reasons, this decade is a time of rethinking many things. There is the impending turn of the millenium, an event packed with meaning. There is recent political history, which has changed the global structure of power in ways few could foresee, and there is an economic fluidity worldwide that makes every day unpredictable and the future uncertain. There are movements of people and surges of violence that seem unparalleled, and well may be. We are awash in change, and people everywhere are trying to understand that and read its implications. It is a time that provokes soul-searching: backward, into the lessons and achievements of the past, and forward, into ways for the future to be better.\nThe fields of health and social development are no exception. More specifically, events and conditions in the health sector point to the need to rethink some large issues. Nations everywhere are grappling with the economic and ethical dilemmas of achieving and maintaining healthy populations, since these are both cause and consequence of true development. Increasingly, the thinking is global, because there are comparisons to be learned from, connections that have implications, obligations to fulfill, and costs that are somehow shared.\nAs part of this dynamic, there has been an explosion of analytic documents, published since the start of this decade, that deal mainly, though not exclusively, with health in developing countries. The purpose of Global Health in Transition is to distill the essential elements from those efforts, discuss the major ideas they share and the thoughts they prompt, ask what those might mean for a next agenda in global health, and comment on the shifting context in which our current concepts of the ideal will proveor not provetheir adequacy for the future.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5513/global-health-in-transition-a-synthesis-perspectives-from-international-organizations", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Collecting Compensation Data from Employers", isbn = "978-0-309-26408-2", abstract = "U.S. agencies with responsibilities for enforcing equal employment opportunity laws have long relied on detailed information that is obtained from employers on employment in job groups by gender and race\/ethnicity for identifying the possibility of discriminatory practices. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Office of Federal Contract Compliance programs of the U.S. Department of Labor, and the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice have developed processes that use these employment data as well as other sources of information to target employers for further investigation and to perform statistical analysis that is used in enforcing the anti-discrimination laws. The limited data from employers do not include (with a few exceptions) the ongoing measurement of possible discrimination in compensation.\nThe proposed Paycheck Fairness Act of 2009 would have required EEOC to issue regulations mandating that employers provide the EEOC with information on pay by the race, gender, and national origin of employees. The legislation was not enacted. If the legislation had become law, the EEOC would have been required to confront issues regarding currently available and potential data sources, methodological requirements, and appropriate statistical techniques for the measurement and collection of employer pay data.\nThe panel concludes that the collection of earnings data would be a significant undertaking for the EEOC and that there might be an increased reporting burden on some employers. Currently, there is no clearly articulated vision of how the data on wages could be used in the conduct of the enforcement responsibilities of the relevant agencies. Collecting Compensation Data from Employers gives recommendations for targeting employers for investigation regarding their compliance with antidiscrimination laws.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13496/collecting-compensation-data-from-employers", year = 2012, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine and National Research Council", editor = "Gooloo S. Wunderlich", title = "Measuring Functional Capacity and Work Requirements: Summary of a Workshop", isbn = "978-0-309-06385-2", abstract = "The Social Security Administration (SSA) is reengineering its disability claims process for providing cash benefits and medical assistance to blind and disabled persons under the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program (Title II and Title XVI of the Social Security Act). As one element of this effort, SSA has proposed a redesigned disability determination process. The agency has undertaken a multi-year research effort to develop and test the feasibility, validity, reliability, and practicality of the redesigned disability determination process before making any decision about implementing it nationally. SSA requested the National Academy of Sciences to review and provide advice on its research relating to the development of a revised disability decision process, including the approach, survey design, and content of the Disability Evaluation Study (DES). One of the committee's tasks is to examine SSA's research into existing and other developing functional assessment instruments for the redesign efforts and to provide advice for adopting or developing instruments for the redesigned decision process and the DES.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6406/measuring-functional-capacity-and-work-requirements-summary-of-a-workshop", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Materials Count: The Case for Material Flows Analysis", isbn = "978-0-309-08944-9", abstract = "The rising population and industrial growth place increasing strains on a variety of\nmaterial and energy resources. Understanding how to make the most economically\nand environmentally efficient use of materials will require an understanding of the\nflow of materials from the time a material is extracted through processing, manufacturing,\nuse, and its ultimate destination as a waste or reusable resource. Materials\nCount examines the usefulness of creating and maintaining material flow accounts\nfor developing sound public policy, evaluates the technical basis for material flows\nanalysis, assesses the current state of material flows information, and discusses who\nshould have institutional responsibility for collecting, maintaining, and providing\naccess to additional data for material flow accounts.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10705/materials-count-the-case-for-material-flows-analysis", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Investing for Productivity and Prosperity", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9075/investing-for-productivity-and-prosperity", year = 1994, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Compilation of Public Opinion Data on Tolls and Road Pricing", abstract = "TRB\u2019s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 377: Compilation of Public Opinion Data on Tolls and Road Pricing explores how the public feels about tolls and road pricing, examines public opinion concerning charging for the use of roads, and highlights factors associated with the acceptance or rejection of road pricing.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/14151/compilation-of-public-opinion-data-on-tolls-and-road-pricing", year = 2008, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Monitoring International Labor Standards: Techniques and Sources of Information", isbn = "978-0-309-09134-3", abstract = "This new report provides a framework within which to assess compliance with core\ninternational labor standards and succeeds in taking an enormous step toward interpreting\nall relevant information into one central database. At the request of the\nBureau of International Labor Affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor, the National\nResearch Council\u2019s Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards was\ncharged with identifying relevant and useful sources of country-level data, assessing\nthe quality of such data, identifying innovative measures to monitor compliance,\nexploring the relationship between labor standards and human capital, and making\nrecommendations on reporting procedures to monitor compliance. The result of the\ncommittee\u2019s work is in two parts\u2014this report and a database structure. Together,\nthey offer a first step toward the goal of providing an empirical foundation to monitor\ncompliance with core labor standards. The report provides a comprehensive\nreview of extant data sources, with emphasis on their relevance to defined labor standards,\ntheir utility to decision makers in charge of assessing or monitoring compliance,\nand the cautions necessary to understand and use the quantitative information.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10937/monitoring-international-labor-standards-techniques-and-sources-of-information", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Protecting Youth at Work: Health, Safety, and Development of Working Children and Adolescents in the United States", isbn = "978-0-309-06413-2", abstract = "In Massachusetts, a 12-year-old girl delivering newspapers is killed when a car strikes her bicycle. In Los Angeles, a 14-year-old boy repeatedly falls asleep in class, exhausted from his evening job. Although children and adolescents may benefit from working, there may also be negative social effects and sometimes danger in their jobs.\nProtecting Youth at Work looks at what is known about work done by children and adolescents and the effects of that work on their physical and emotional health and social functioning. The committee recommends specific initiatives for legislators, regulators, researchers, and employers.\nThis book provides historical perspective on working children and adolescents in America and explores the framework of child labor laws that govern that work. The committee presents a wide range of data and analysis on the scope of youth employment, factors that put children and adolescents at risk in the workplace, and the positive and negative effects of employment, including data on educational attainment and lifestyle choices.\nProtecting Youth at Work also includes discussions of special issues for minority and disadvantaged youth, young workers in agriculture, and children who work in family-owned businesses.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6019/protecting-youth-at-work-health-safety-and-development-of-working", year = 1998, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Aging and the Macroeconomy: Long-Term Implications of an Older Population", isbn = "978-0-309-26196-8", abstract = "The United States is in the midst of a major demographic shift. In the coming decades, people aged 65 and over will make up an increasingly large percentage of the population: The ratio of people aged 65+ to people aged 20-64 will rise by 80%. This shift is happening for two reasons: people are living longer, and many couples are choosing to have fewer children and to have those children somewhat later in life. The resulting demographic shift will present the nation with economic challenges, both to absorb the costs and to leverage the benefits of an aging population.\nAging and the Macroeconomy: Long-Term Implications of an Older Population presents the fundamental factors driving the aging of the U.S. population, as well as its societal implications and likely long-term macroeconomic effects in a global context. The report finds that, while population aging does not pose an insurmountable challenge to the nation, it is imperative that sensible policies are implemented soon to allow companies and households to respond. It offers four practical approaches for preparing resources to support the future consumption of households and for adapting to the new economic landscape.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13465/aging-and-the-macroeconomy-long-term-implications-of-an-older", year = 2012, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board", title = "Trends in Single Occupant Vehicle and Vehicle Miles of Travel Growth in the United States: Final Report", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6355/trends-in-single-occupant-vehicle-and-vehicle-miles-of-travel-growth-in-the-united-states", year = 1998, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Timothy M. Smeeding and David S. Johnson and Constance F. Citro", title = "Creating an Integrated System of Data and Statistics on Household Income, Consumption, and Wealth: Time to Build", isbn = "978-0-309-71231-6", abstract = "Many federal agencies provide data and statistics on inequality and related aspects of household income, consumption, and wealth (ICW). However, because the information provided by these agencies is often produced using different concepts, underlying data, and methods, the resulting estimates of poverty, inequality, mean and median household income, consumption, and wealth, as well as other statistics, do not always tell a consistent or easily interpretable story. Measures also differ in their accuracy, timeliness, and relevance so that it is difficult to address such questions as the effects of the Great Recession on household finances or of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing relief efforts on household income and consumption. The presence of multiple, sometimes conflicting statistics at best muddies the waters of policy debates and, at worst, enable advocates with different policy perspectives to cherry-pick their preferred set of estimates. Achieving an integrated system of relevant, high-quality, and transparent household ICW data and statistics should go far to reduce disagreement about who has how much, and from what sources. Further, such data are essential to advance research on economic wellbeing and to ensure that policies are well targeted to achieve societal goals.\nCreating an Integrated System of Data and Statistics on Household Income, Consumption, and Wealth reviews the major household ICW statistics currently produced by U.S. statistical agencies and provides guidance for modernizing the information to better inform policy and research, such as understanding trends in inequality and mobility. This report provides recommendations for developing an improved 21st century data system for measuring the extent to which economic prosperity is shared by households throughout the population and for understanding how the distribution of resources is affected by government policy and economic events. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27333/creating-an-integrated-system-of-data-and-statistics-on-household-income-consumption-and-wealth", year = 2024, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Forecasting Statewide Freight Toolkit", abstract = "TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 606: Forecasting Statewide Freight Toolkit explores an analytical framework for forecasting freight movements at the state level.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/14133/forecasting-statewide-freight-toolkit", year = 2008, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }