2014 APPAM Fall Research Conference(November 5-8, 2014): Affiliation Index N

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The Causal Effect of Education on Body Mass, Smoking, and Drinking Among Young Adults in a Developing Country: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey

Nanjing University

The Rapid Emergence of Communication Networks Following the April 20, 2013 Ya'an Earthquake in Lushan County, China

Nankai University

Constituting a Model for Obesity Control: Possible Experience from the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco

National Academy of Sciences

[DATA] The Supplemental Poverty Measure: Four Views from Four Surveys

National Central University

Job Accessibility, Welfare Usage, and Reemployment Stability: An Integrated Framework for Employment Programs Evaluation

National Council on Crime & Delinquency

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Data? Relational Databases for Evaluators

National Institute for Early Education Research

Hispanics, Language and Immigration: Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Gaps in the Early Years

National Institute of Economic and Social Research

Administrative and Survey Data in the UK Employment Retention and Advancement Demonstration

National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research

Pushing the Envelope - Transition-Age Supplemental Security Income Participants, the 1619(b) Work Incentive, and Long Term Employment Outcomes

National Institutes of Health

Professional Development Workshop Beyond the Degree: Bringing Career Options Into Focus

Falling out of Step: Understanding Trends in Gender, Race, and Ethnic Differences on the Pathway to a Career in Biomedical Research

National Opinion Research Center

Travel Time to Child Care Settings – Evidence from the NLSY97

National Science Foundation

Global and Other Networks in the Production of Science

National University of Malaysia

The Design and Execution of Performance Management Systems at State Level: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Malaysia

National University of Singapore

The Indiana Scalable Energy-Economy Model: The Substate Effect of Carbon Dioxide Taxes

Subnational, State and Substate Energy-Economy Modeling

National Women's Law Center

Auxiliary Risks of Low Wage Jobs: Public and Private Solutions for Family Economic Security

Naval Postgraduate School

Assessing the Antecedents of Well-Being Using Meta-Analysis

Regulatory and Contractual Oversight: Ethics, Transparency and Accountability

Netherlands School of Public Administration

Temporal Patterns: The Circular Dynamics behind Policy Failures in the Educational Sector

Policy Failures and Time-Sensitive Governance; Timescapes and Governance Dilemmas in Public Policy

New America Foundation

Auxiliary Risks of Low Wage Jobs: Public and Private Solutions for Family Economic Security

New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, Inc.

New Evaluation Research on Financial Empowerment Programs for Vulnerable Groups

New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee

[DATA] The (Critical) Next Level of Evidence-Based Policymaking: Case Studies of Successful Policymaker-Researcher Collaboration at the State Level

New Mexico Sentencing Commission

[DATA] Framework for Implementing Evidence-Based Policymaking

New Mexico State University

The Effects of New York State's Environmental Justice Policy on the Regulatory Enforcement Practices for Vulnerable Communities: A Block-Group-Level Evaluation

Creating Effective Performance Based Accountability: When Process Matters As Much (or More) Than Design

Regional Transmission Organizations and Decision-Making

New Mexico Veterans Affairs Health Care System

Improving Performance in the Veterans Health Administration

New Mexico Voices for Children

Differential Effects of Economic Insecurity on Children Across Rural, Suburban, and Urban Communities

New Teacher Center

How Working Conditions Predict Teaching Quality and Student Outcomes

New York University

Symposium: The Affordable Care Act: One Year Later

Professional Development Workshop Beyond the Degree: Bringing Career Options Into Focus

Do BMI Grades Work? Obesity Reporting in New York City Schools

Do Housing Choice Voucher Holders Move Towards Better Schools?

School Accountability, Postsecondary Attainment and Earnings

Scope and Depth of Wellness Programs in Urban Schools

Trends in Children's Experiences of Household Income Volatility, 1984-2009

Contributions of the National Science Foundation's Discovery Research K-12 Projects to the Fields of Science and Mathematics Education

An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth.... a Pound of Measurement Challenges

Associations Between Maternal Engagement in Education and Positive Parenting Practices

Program Level Variation in Head Start Impacts: The Moderating Role of Classroom Quality

Are Barrios Good or Bad? the Effects of Metropolitan Area Segregation on Latino Outcomes

Making Summer Matter: The Impact of Youth Employment on Academic Performance

Does Small High School Reform Lift Urban Districts? Evidence from New York City

The Effects of Negative Equity on Children's Educational Outcomes

The Effects of Residential Mobility on Student Performance: Evidence from NYC

The Direct and Indirect Effects of Affordable Housing Mandates

Are Local Retail Services an Amenity or a Nuisance?

Estimating Optimal State Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Balances

The Financial Consequences of Government Support to Not-for-Profit Organizations

Color and the Classroom: Publicolor As a Case Study for the Impacts of Design on Engagement and Learning

How Do Low-Income Parents Prepare Their Children for Kindergarten?

Unpacking the Black Box of Head Start: Applying Principal Stratification and Bayesian Inference to Investigate the Mediational Process of Parent-Child Language-and-Literacy Activities in Head Start Impact Study

How Does Head Start Compare? Evidence from Three Contemporary Datasets

Taxation and State Legitimacy: How Perceptions of Local Taxation in Rwanda Shape Tax Payer Compliance and Attitudes Towards Local Government

Pension Funding and Management in the Third Sector

Banking on Distress: The Expansion of Predatory Financial Institutions during the Great Recession

Continuous Improvement? the Impact of a Formal-Informal Partnership on Science Achievement in NYC

Early Interventions and Children's Behavior Problems: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Head Start Settings

Providing High-Quality Math Instruction in the Preschool Classroom

An Intervention to Improve Preschool Quality in Ghana: Testing Demand- and Supply-Side Strategies to Improve Preschool Choice and Quality in Peri-Urban Accra

Housing Prices and Homelessness

Estimating the Causal Impact of Allowing Home-Based Childcare Providers to Form Labor Unions on the Cost, Type and Availability of Subsidized Child Care in Illinois

Income Inequality As a Predictor of Individual and Regional Partisan Preference

Change Is Constant: Taking a Dynamic Approach to Understanding Socioeconomic Status and Family Functioning

Interdisciplinary Approaches for Promoting Children’s Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights for Intervention, Evaluation, & Policy

The Prison Boom: Causes, Consequences, Policy

The Causes and Consequences of Student Mobility

Neighborhood-Based Economic Development

Racial Wealth Disparities & Housing Policy

Wellness in the Schools: Helping US Children Eat Well and be Physically Fit

Measuring the Effects of Residential Segregation on Minority Outcomes

[DATA] Big Data, and Policy: Use of Administrative Data to Guide Workforce Development Program Planning and Research

Joint APPAM/Naspaa Session: Capitalizing the “P” in Public Service Education: Defining a New Framework for Linking Our Schools & Research to the Policymaking Process

State and Local Government Fiscal Sustainability

Responses to Incentives in Taxation

Decentralization and the Politics of Service Delivery

Immigrant Health and Wellbeing

[DATA] STEM Policy: Women and the STEM Workforce

Niagara University

Ripple Effects of Charter Schools on Educational Opportunity: Charterization in New York City

NORC at the U of Chicago

Challenges and Strategies for Conducting Surveys of an Ex-Offender Population

NORC at the University of Chicago

Challenges and Strategies for Conducting Surveys of an Ex-Offender Population

NORC at U of Chicago

Challenges and Strategies for Conducting Surveys of an Ex-Offender Population

North Carolina State University

Teachers' and Principals' Perspectives on the Common Core after Full Implementation

Building for the Future: Increasing Human Capital and Management Capacity in Municipal Governments through Mentoring

The Timing of the Primary Earner's Social Security Claiming Decision, the Survivor Benefit, and the Financial Well-Being of the Spouse in Widow(er)Hood

Framing Social Security Survivor Benefits

Strategies, Outcomes, and Policy Implications from a State Race to the Top Professional Development Initiative

Outcomes, and Policy Implications from a State Race to the Top Principal Training Initiative

Alternatives to Tax Credits in North Carolina: Distributional Effects of a Revenue Neutral Corporate Income Tax Reduction

At the Margins: Evaluating Efforts to Expand the Uses of Online Learning Via a State Virtual School

The Impact of Accountability on Teacher Academic Ability, Encouraging Long Term Evidence

Evaluating North Carolina Food Pantry Standard Operating Procedures: A Mixed-Methods Approach

Assessing the Effects of the Great Recession on the Teacher Labor Market

Measuring Teacher Effectiveness

Northern New Mexico College

The Method in the Madness: Racial Equity Report Cards As a Tool for Policy Change

Northern Virginia Cigarette Tax Board

Crime and Other Unintended Consequences of Tobacco Regulations

Northwestern University

The Educational Consequences of Having a Severely Disabled Sibling

Effects of Economic Conditions on Rural Young Adults: Migration, Education, Employment, and Marriage

The Uneven Implementation of Universal School Policies: Maternal Education and Florida's Mandatory Grade Retention Policy

The Effects of Negative Equity on Children's Educational Outcomes

Immigrants in Public Education: A Closer Look at Cross-Generational Differences

The Effects of School Turnaround in North Carolina: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

The Effect of School Finance Reforms on the Distribution of Spending, Academic Achievement, and Adult Outcomes

School Finance Reform and the Distribution of Student Achievement

Resources Gained, Resources Lost: Navigating the Evolving Social Safety Net While Living with HIV/AIDS

Validating Virginia's Quality Rating and Improvement System Among State-Funded Pre-Kindergarten Programs

Educational Attainment and Sexual Orientation in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Broken Promises: Organizational Identity and Governance Mismatch in Economic Policy Implementation

New Evidence on Head Start

Consequences of Grade Retention and Academic Probation

Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Effects of Private School Choice

High School Strategies to Increase Student Achievement and Post-Secondary Success

School Choice and Market Signals: What Do Parents Value When Choosing Schools?

[DATA] New Developments in the Empirical Evaluation of Non-Experimental Methods

Nossal Institute for Global Health

Impact of Child Health Insurance in Vietnam: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Nova Southeastern University

Early Childhood Adversity, Mental Health, and Substance Use: The Role of Parents

Challenges and New Perspectives in School Finance

NPC Research

The National Institute of Justice's Evaluation of Second Chance Act Adult Reentry Courts: Staff and Client Perspectives on Reentry Courts

NYC Center for Economic Opportunity

Accountability and Impact in Jobs-Plus: Performance Management and Scaling up a High-Profile Place-Based Initiative

Paycheck Plus: Building Evidence for an Expanded Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for Single Adults

Implementation Research Findings from a New Model of Family Rewards

The Housing Subsidy Platform and Beneficiary Outcomes: Strategies, Innovation, and Evidence

What’s Next for Conditional Cash Transfer Programs? Possibilities for Productive Exit, Research, and Support

NYC Department of Homeless Services

Work First Works for Single Homeless Men

NYC Department of Homeless Services

Work First Works for Single Homeless Men

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