2015 Fall Conference: The Golden Age of Evidence-Based Policy: Panel

Indiana University SPEA

Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

University of Pennsylvania

American University

Pepperdine University

LBJ School of Public Affiars

APPAM Membership

University of Washington

Panel

Thursday, November 12, 2015

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

ID#6147

Panel: Academic Early Education: Developing an Evidence Base for Policy Contexts and Outcomes

ID#6284

Panel: Can Local Policies Reduce Consumption of High Calorie Foods and Sugar Sweetened Beverages?

ID#6095

Panel: Causes and Consequences of Widespread Financial Insecurity: The Asset Gap, Income Volatility, the Unbanked, and Payday

ID#5763

Panel: Correctional Interventions: Patterns, Profiles and Post-Release Outcomes

ID#5936

Panel: Evaluations of Federal STEM Workforce Training Programs

ID#6001

Panel: Evaluations of Higher Education Policies

ID#5476

Panel: Experiments in Early Truancy Prevention

ID#6005

Panel: How Can We Expand Home Visiting to Engage Dads? Strategies, Enhancements, and Early Program Impacts

ID#6034

Panel: Improving the Performance of Quasi-Experimental Designs: Bias and Precision in Evidence-Based Policy Studies

ID#6350

Panel: Infrastructure Finance and Investment

ID#6359

Panel: International Papers on Improving Health and Well-Being

ID#5494

Panel: New Insights into the Causes and Consequences of the Foreclosure Crisis

ID#6346

Panel: Nonprofit Human Services

ID#6281

Panel: Planned Parenthood and the Well-Being of Children and Families

ID#6266

Panel: Policy and Technology Trends Driving the Future of Transportation

ID#6192

Panel: Preventing High School Dropout: Findings in Four Experimental Studies

ID#5640

Panel: SNAP and the Transfer System

ID#5624

Panel: Sample Size Requirements for RCTs with Varying Impacts

ID#5460

Panel: The Impact of Teacher Incentives on Student Achievement and Teacher Retention, Recruitment

ID#5864

Panel: The Impact of Worker Protection Efforts

ID#5824

Panel: The Structure of Public Pensions: Costs, Contributions, and Consequences

ID#5980

Panel: Traffic Safety and Drunk Driving

ID#6190

Panel: Using Data to Combat Homelessness: National and State Level Evidence

ID#6069

Panel: Voluntary Environmental Programs As Environmental Governance Tools

10:15 AM-11:45 AM

ID#5957

Panel: Advanced Coursework in High School: Strategies for Improved Access and Effectiveness

ID#6096

Panel: Big Data – Huge Promises, Small Insights?

ID#5854

Panel: Building Evidence to Strengthen the Social Safety Net

ID#6131

Panel: Can the U.S. Scale up Apprenticeship Training? Lessons from the U.S. and Abroad

ID#5557

Panel: Current Issues in Medicaid Policy

ID#6003

Panel: Design-Based Causal Inference for RCTs: Theory and Software for Promoting Opportunistic Experiments

ID#5605

Panel: Designing Evaluations to Strengthen Policy and Practice: Current Research on Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs

ID#6301

Panel: Determinants of Long Term Care Use

ID#6058

Panel: Early Childhood Education Policy: Preschool Program Efficacy, Composition, and Quality Improvement

ID#6160

Panel: Electricity Markets: Complex Modern Issues Confronting the Sector

ID#6273

Panel: Evidence on the Consequences of Foreclosures

ID#5745

Panel: Factors in STEM Workforce Occupational Choices

ID#6155

Panel: Family Options Study: Impacts of Three Interventions on Homeless Families at 20 Months

ID#6332

Panel: How Policy Choices in the Minimum Wage, Transfers, and Social Insurance Programs Affect Behavior

ID#5912

Panel: Immigrant Integration: A National Academies Concensus Study

ID#5910

Panel: Knowing When to Nudge: Behavioral Strategies to Improve Educational Outcomes

ID#5733

Panel: Lessons Learned from Public Workforce Program Experiments

ID#5866

Panel: Lessons Learned from the First Four i3 Scale-up Evaluations

ID#5976

Panel: Linking Organizational Performance, Leadership, and Strategy in the Policy Context

ID#6267

Panel: Managing, Responding, and Planning for Natural Disasters and Flooding

ID#6042

Panel: Reducing Crime and Violence

ID#6338

Panel: Social Equity in an International Context

ID#6105

Panel: The Efficacy of Higher Education Grant Programs

ID#5608

Panel: Trends in Disability Program Participation

1:45 PM-3:15 PM

ID#6287

Panel: ACA Individual and Small Group Market Reform

ID#6016

Panel: Addressing the Housing Needs of an Aging Population

ID#6062

Panel: Behaviorally-Informed Interventions to Promote Human Capital Development in Children and Youth

ID#5674

Panel: Building a Better Teacher: Teacher Preparation, Student Teaching, and Teacher Coaching

ID#5594

Panel: Coping with Natural Disasters in an Intergovernmental Policy Framework: Challenges and Perspectives

ID#6124

Panel: Demand Driven Training Programs for Low Wage Workers

ID#5974

Panel: Distribution of teachers and students across schools by teacher and student characteristics

ID#6306

Panel: Federal Science Funding: Controversies & Unintended Consequences

ID#5760

Panel: Giving Cash to the Poor?: Impacts of Africa’s Unconditional Cash Transfers

ID#5778

Panel: Making Evidence-Based Health Policy Work in the Political Process

ID#6342

Panel: Management in State Government: Three Case Studies

ID#5939

Panel: New Evidence for the Fetal Origins Hypotheses

ID#5748

Panel: New Perspectives on Financial Barriers to Postsecondary Success

ID#6283

Panel: Policy Responses to the Prescription Opioid Epidemic

ID#6151

Panel: Preschool Program Fadeout: Understanding Impact Persistence and Heterogeneity

ID#5842

Panel: Strengthening Transitions from High School to Postsecondary Pursuits

ID#6199

Panel: The Catch-up of the Renewable Energy Sector in Developing Countries

ID#5626

Panel: The Effectiveness of U.S. Employment Policy during the Great Recession

ID#6345

Panel: The Variable Human in Management

ID#5819

Panel: Two-Generation Programs in Head Start: Three Experimental Studies of Parent and Child Interventions

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

ID#6210

Panel: Designing Evidence-Based Policy in Global Dynamic Environments

ID#6137

Panel: Disability Benefit Reform: Building an Evidence-Base

ID#5871

Panel: Early Data on Health Care Utilization after Coverage Expansion

ID#5979

Panel: Economic and Social Consequences of Undocumented Immigration

ID#6148

Panel: Exclusionary Disciplinary Practices, School Climate, and Student Outcomes

ID#6122

Panel: Experimental Impacts of Vocational Training Around the World

ID#5596

Panel: Families with Children in the Great Recession

ID#6269

Panel: Governing Water: Collaborative Approaches

ID#6142

Panel: How Information and Admissions Policies Affect College Access and Attendance for Low-Income Students

ID#6141

Panel: Improving Chronically Low-Performing Public Schools: The Role of Public Policy Interventions

ID#6322

Panel: Keeping Students on Track

ID#5943

Panel: Lessons Learned from the Federal Home Visiting Program

ID#6336

Panel: New Policy Relevant Research on LGBT Populations

ID#6176

Panel: Patterns of Early Childhood Education Quality: Associations with Policy and Learning

ID#6291

Panel: Personal and Policy Level Determinants of Food Consumption

ID#6008

Panel: Policy Implementation Research: New Methods and Models

ID#5566

Panel: Productivity Spillover and Knowledge Diffusion Among Employees: Evidence from School Teachers

ID#6128

Panel: Results of Federal Investment in R&D

ID#6293

Panel: Smoking Reduction Policies, E-Cigarettes and Child and Adolescent Health

ID#6275

Panel: Social Conditions and Crime

ID#6158

Panel: Stability and Change: The Role of Residential Mobility in Children’s Development

ID#6303

Panel: State Politics and Policymaking

ID#6139

Panel: Subnational Environmental Policies in China: Mechanisms and Performance

ID#6149

Panel: The Administration of Labour Policies and Programs: Global Perspectives

ID#6348

Panel: Youth and Citizen Involvement in Government and Nonprofit Governance

Friday, November 13, 2015

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

ID#5660

Panel: Analyzing Emerging Social Equity Issues and Policies in U.S. Suburbs

ID#6129

Panel: Causal Effects of Behavioral Environmental Policy

ID#6010

Panel: College Choice and Major Choice

ID#5887

Panel: Food Insecurity through Four Lenses

ID#6009

Panel: Food Insecurity, Food Assistance Programs, and Child Well-Being

ID#5597

Panel: Foster Care Placement and Foster Care Adoption in the United States

ID#6252

Panel: Gentrification and Its Effects

ID#5834

Panel: How Do Public Safety Net Reductions Affect Well-Being? Examining the Impact of Benefit Cuts on Health, Earnings, and Private Transfers from Family

ID#6319

Panel: Improving Educational Outcomes of Early Care and Education

ID#5908

Panel: Innovations in Student Loan Policy: Field Experiments to Improve Information and Access to Loan Counseling

ID#6101

Panel: K-12 Accountability Under NCLB and Beyond: Empirical Evidence and Directions for Evidence-Based Policy

ID#6198

Panel: Moving Beyond Big Data: The Role of Qualitative Research in Understanding the Financial Lives of Americans

ID#5766

Panel: Moving Beyond Questions of ‘Why?': The Administration and Outcomes of Local Sustainability Efforts

ID#6347

Panel: Nonprofit Governance and Partnerships

ID#5650

Panel: People and Place in Low-Income Housing Policy

ID#6340

Panel: Performance Management

ID#6300

Panel: Physician and Hospital Responses to the Changing Health Care Marketplace

ID#6053

Panel: State Financial Policy Challenges and Innovations in Debt Markets & Pensions

ID#6092

Panel: Studies in Unemployment Insurance Policy

ID#6327

Panel: Supporting K-12 and College Students Academically and Financially

ID#6063

Panel: Teacher Evaluation Measures – What Are They Good For?

ID#5935

Panel: The Impact of Social Security Disability Rules on Beneficiary Earnings: New Evidence

ID#6307

Panel: Use of Scientific Evidence in Policymaking

10:15 AM-11:45 AM

ID#5822

Panel: Challenges to Improving Managerial Performance in an Evidence-Based World

ID#6292

Panel: Child Health

ID#6033

Panel: Do the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Employment and Training Programs Work?

ID#5706

Panel: Employment and Recidivism Prospects Among Criminals

ID#6094

Panel: Engaging Low-Income Parents in Early Childhood Programs

ID#6250

Panel: Environmental Justice and Equity: Lessons for a More Equitable Society

ID#5876

Panel: Examining the New Teacher Contract: Compensation and Retention in the Context of Waning Union Power

ID#5987

Panel: Fiscal Stress and Uncertainty in Local Government Finance

ID#5963

Panel: Forty Years of the EITC: Assessing Its Impact on Women's Living Arrangements, Employment, and Marriage Decisions

ID#6097

Panel: How Does Food Store Access Affect Food Shopping Behavior and Diet Quality?

ID#5774

Panel: Implications of Financial Aid

ID#6046

Panel: Increasing Social Equity and Diversity in the Workplace: New Disability Affirmative Action Requirements for Federal Contractors

ID#6321

Panel: Innovative Policies and Practices in Education

ID#6308

Panel: Issues in STEM Higher Education

ID#6286

Panel: Long Term Health and Economic Effects of Medicaid

ID#6294

Panel: Medicare Physician Reimbursement and Patient Choice

ID#5371

Panel: Neighborhood Change and Revitalization

ID#5707

Panel: Policy Issues in Subnational Government Debt Management

ID#5615

Panel: Recent Advances in Visual Presentation of Big Data to Guide Policy

ID#6013

Panel: Renewable Electricity Markets: Analyzing the Role of Credit Exchanges, Social Risk, and Policy Interactions

ID#6140

Panel: Research-Practitioner Partnerships to Create Evidence-Based Anti-Poverty Programs

ID#6146

Panel: School Choices: Examining Variation in Charter, Private, and Non-Residential Alternatives to Neighborhood Public Schools

ID#5756

Panel: Strengthening Postsecondary Pathways: Student, State, and Institution-Level Factors

1:30 PM-3:00 PM

ID#6341

Panel: Can the Federal Government be Efficiently Managed?: A Practitioner's Perspectice

ID#6178

Panel: Coastal Resiliency and Sustainability: Evidence-Based Policy Implementation from U.S. Coastal Regions

ID#6289

Panel: Consequences of Early Life Health and Work on Long-Term Adult Outcomes

ID#5990

Panel: Educational Innovations in and Outside the Home

ID#6071

Panel: Evaluating Impacts of Solid Fuel Use on Air Pollution, Climate and Health in Developing Countries

ID#6331

Panel: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Spending, Financial Allocations, and Timing of Disbursal in Low and Middle Income Countries

ID#5770

Panel: Food Consumption, Nutrition, and Food Insecurity

ID#6262

Panel: From Research to Policy

ID#5882

Panel: Impacts of State-Level Substance Abuse Policies on Individual Health and Health Care Costs

ID#5988

Panel: Improving Efficiency and Access in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

ID#6226

Panel: Income and Expense Volatility for Low- and Moderate-Income Households: Evidence for Policy and Practice

ID#6253

Panel: Innovation in the Healthcare Delivery System: Consequences of Recent Developments

ID#6309

Panel: Institutional Effects of Scientific Research Funding

ID#5962

Panel: Interventions for High-Achieving Students

ID#6004

Panel: Labor Markets and Effective Teachers

ID#6343

Panel: Local Government Management

ID#5716

Panel: National and State Analyses of Family and Sick Leave Policies

ID#6337

Panel: New Research on Residential Segregation, Racial Segregation, and Racial Inequality

ID#5895

Panel: Occupational Demands Among Older Workers and Individuals with Disability

ID#5933

Panel: Regression Discontinuity Designs (RDDs): Extensions to Reduce Bias and Increase Precision

ID#5823

Panel: Rental Subsidies: Neighborhood Access, Mobility, and Tenant Outcomes

ID#6130

Panel: Socio-Economic Status-Based Gaps in Children’s Early Learning Environments: Long-Run Trends and the Role of Public Investment

ID#6326

Panel: Strategies for Improving Non-cognitive Outcomes for Children

ID#5919

Panel: The Discipline Gap and Social Equity in Schools

ID#5679

Panel: The Educational Impact of Online Pedagogy

ID#5971

Panel: Tobacco Regulation, Illicit Markets, and Crime

ID#5659

Panel: Using Evidence-Based Management and Policy to Improve Not-for-Profit Financial Operations

Saturday, November 14, 2015

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

ID#6044

Panel: Addressing Barriers to Care: New Avenues for Evidence-Based Health Policy

ID#6344

Panel: Changing Technology and Management

ID#6316

Panel: College Financing and Completion

ID#6276

Panel: Consequences of Policy Decisions on Crime

ID#6298

Panel: Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Coverage for Families with Children

ID#6068

Panel: Family and Community Contexts Shaping Children of Immigrants’ Development

ID#5952

Panel: Family-Related Workplace Benefits Policies: Inputs, Outcomes, and Costs

ID#6117

Panel: Father Involvement: Trends, Implications, and Opportunities

ID#6305

Panel: Getting Research Used in Government

ID#6235

Panel: Health & Education Intersections: Health Barriers to Academic Achievement and Potential Policy Solutions

ID#6297

Panel: Insurance Expansion Effects on Specialty Care and Drug Use

ID#6290

Panel: Labor and Use of Health Care: Effects of Federal Mental Health Parity

ID#6265

Panel: Land and Species Conservation

ID#6040

Panel: Medicare's Future: Challenges and Opportunities

ID#5729

Panel: Methods for Understanding Impact Variation

ID#6310

Panel: New Makers, New Markets

ID#6218

Panel: New Research on the Effects of EITC and SNAP

ID#6274

Panel: Policies Affecting Home Ownership

ID#6106

Panel: Poverty and Poor Food Environments

ID#5852

Panel: Race-Based Policy Decisions in Education: Evidence from Empirical Studies

ID#6002

Panel: Relying on Student Surveys: New Innovations and New Challenges in Measuring Teacher Quality and Student Skills

ID#6335

Panel: Social Equity and Public Administration

ID#5441

Panel: Tax Refunds and Household Debt

ID#6154

Panel: The Impact of Economic, Housing Market, and Demographic Changes on the Financing of Local Governments

ID#6203

Panel: The Transfer Function of Community Colleges

ID#6263

Panel: The Use of Evidence in Policy Analysis

ID#5531

Panel: Transitioning to Employment: Understanding the Employment Outcomes of Transition Age Vocational Rehabilitation Customers

ID#5777

Panel: Using Technology to Improve Educational Outcomes

ID#6093

Panel: Using and Improving Modeling Efforts to Inform Energy and Climate Policy

10:15 AM-11:45 AM

ID#6264

Panel: Addressing Selection Bias in Observational Analysis of Intervention Impacts

ID#6133

Panel: Assets and Debt in American Lives: Findings from 50 Years of the National Longitudinal Surveys

ID#5881

Panel: Beyond the Bars: Consequences of Parental Incarceration on Child Outcomes

ID#6278

Panel: Building Skills in At-Risk Populations

ID#5930

Panel: College Access and Matriculation

ID#6318

Panel: Enhancing Teacher Performance

ID#6271

Panel: Evidence on the Effects of Affordable Housing

ID#6152

Panel: Evidence-Based Sustainability Planning in Cities: Evaluating City Climate Action Plans and Media Reports in US, India & China

ID#6188

Panel: Examining Issues of College Access and Readiness in New York City: Lessons from a Research-Practitioner Partnership

ID#6302

Panel: Explosive Issues: Waivers, Welfare, and Immigration

ID#5775

Panel: Fathers and Child Support: What's Associated with Payments and What Are Their Effects?

ID#5873

Panel: Fiscal Consequences of Local Government Policies

ID#6231

Panel: Gender in the Workplace

ID#5525

Panel: Governmental Performance and Stakeholder Perceptions: Evidence from Experimental Interventions

ID#6288

Panel: Health Insurance Coverage and Effects in Special Populations

ID#6320

Panel: Inequality of Educational Opportunity and Outcomes

ID#6268

Panel: Information Provision to Improve Energy and Environmental Outcomes

ID#6285

Panel: Intended and Unintended Consequences of Health Care Mechanisms

ID#6222

Panel: Latino Immigration: Policy and Outcomes

ID#6323

Panel: Measuring Teacher Performance

ID#6311

Panel: Motivations and Networks in Research Collaborations

ID#6333

Panel: New Evidence on Poverty Measurement, The Safety Net, and the Great Recession

ID#6295

Panel: Take Up and Effects of Private Insurance Coverage after the ACA

ID#6177

Panel: The Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Effects of School Vouchers: New Evidence from Indiana, Louisiana, and Milwaukee

ID#5924

Panel: Understanding the Effects of Food Assistance Programs and the Food Environment on Food Spending, Food Security, and Diet Using the National Household Food Assistance Acquisition and Purchase Survey

ID#6277

Panel: Unemployment Insurance Issues

ID#6353

Panel: What Drives Public Servants?

ID#6280

Panel: Work and Family Policies: How Can Policy Reduce the Tensions Between Work & Family?

1:45 PM-3:15 PM

ID#6304

Panel: Bureaucratic Politics and Policymaking

ID#6315

Panel: College Access and Choice

ID#5677

Panel: Diffusion of Innovations: Insights from Sustainable Energy Transition in the U.S. and Europe

ID#6220

Panel: Exploring the Impact of Mobility and Assignment Strategies on Student Educational Experiences and Outcomes

ID#6055

Panel: Family Stability and Parenting in the Great Recession

ID#6351

Panel: Fiscal Institutions and Their Effect on Governance

ID#6339

Panel: Framing Performance Assessments

ID#5676

Panel: Innovations in Evaluation for Improved Internal and External Validity

ID#6330

Panel: Innovative Uses of Data to Answer Policy Questions

ID#6355

Panel: Inter-Generational Effects of Gender, Marriage, and Income

ID#6132

Panel: Interactions Between Healthcare and Social Insurance Programs

ID#6006

Panel: Intersections Between Family Economic and Housing Instability and Family and Child Well-Being

ID#6314

Panel: Migration and Health

ID#5920

Panel: Older Workers' Self-Employment Trends and Prospects

ID#6324

Panel: Performance Pays in Teaching

ID#6179

Panel: Physician Incentives and Responses to Health Policies

ID#6334

Panel: Poverty, Programs, and Other Outcomes

ID#5989

Panel: Power Analysis in Designing Cluster Randomized Trials to Detect the Main, Moderation, and Mediation Effects

ID#6282

Panel: Programs and Policies to Help Vulnerable Children and Youth

ID#5949

Panel: Publicly Funded Preschool: Impacts Across Early- and Middle-Childhood

ID#6329

Panel: Strategies for Improving Whole Schools Reform, Closing, Accountability and More

ID#6272

Panel: The Implementation and Evaluation of Programs for Recipients of Housing Assistance

ID#6165

Panel: The Latest Evidence on Charter Schools: Selection, Effectiveness, Best Practices and Systemic Effects

ID#6182

Panel: Understanding Personnel Decisions in Public Schools