Saturday Poster Session & Luncheon

Food Swamps? the Effect of Imbalanced Food Environments on Obesity

Kristen Cooksey Stowers, Duke University

Family Decisions on Insuring Children: What the Chip Experiment Tells Us about Reauthorization

E. Kathleen Adams¹, Gery P. Guy¹, Patricia Ketsche², Emily M. Johnston¹ and Peter J. Joski¹, (1)Emory University, (2)Georgia State University

Identifying and Evaluating Predictors of New York City Service Requests

Christopher Ross Eshleman, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Jonathan L Auerbach, Columbia University

Gateway to Global Aging Data

Drystan Phillips and Jinkook Lee, University of Southern California

An Analysis of Flood Insurance Premiums to Home Valuations in Massachusetts

Jason D. Wright and Chad J. McGuire, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Florida's Enterprise Zones: Do They Reduce Poverty?

Spence Kjell Purnell, Florida State University

Land Use and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

Joyce Shim¹, Jacob Lesniewski¹, Christopher DiGiovanni¹ and Prakash Gorroochurn², (1)Dominican University, (2)Columbia University

The Impact of Economic Development on Plant Diversity: A Test of the Environmental Kuznets Curve

Jennie Wienke and Sam Grubbs, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Protecting the Breadbasket with Trees: The Effect of the Great Plains Shelterbelt Project on Agricultural Production

Tianshu Li, University of Virginia

The Effects on Foster Children of Using Parental Disability As a Removal Reason

Elizabeth B. Lightfoot and Sharyn DeZelar, University of Minnesota

What Can Africa Learn from Leading Countries' Paths to Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technology?

Youngbok Ryu and Shira Efron, Pardee RAND Graduate School

Individual Shortcomings or Structural Effects? Examining the Determinants of Exiting Public Housing

Prentiss Dantzler, Rutgers University - Camden

Bringing an Outcome Focus to a Federally-Funded Technical Assistance Project

Allison P Hyra and Matthew Shepherd, ICF International

The Geography of Payday Lending: Living in the Path of a Payday Lender

Younghee Lim, Trey Bickham and Aimee Moles, Louisiana State University

A Deal Too Good to Refuse? Political Ideology of State Populations and Insurance Expansions for Children and Parents

Emily M. Johnston, Emory University

Trust and Cooperation in Cross-Border Counter-Terrorism Networks

Cali Ellis, University of Michigan

Systems Change Analysis of the Health Profession Opportunity Grants Initiative

Hamutal Bernstein¹, Lauren Eyster² and Jennifer Yahner¹, (1)The Urban Institute, (2)Urban Institute

Resilience Implication of Fiscal Policy Response to the Economic Crisis: Government Expenditure on Labor Market Policies in OECD countries

Hyungjo Hur and Joshua Hawley, The Ohio State University

Job Separation Post and Pre Great Recession in the US: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation

Bocar A Ba, University of Chicago

Financial Networks in Low-Income Urban Communites

Antonieta Castro-Cosio, The New School

Top Down Gentrification: How Prominent Are Social Controls in Government Sponsored Mixed-Income Development?

Kelly Owens, Education Associates and Kenya Covington, California State University, Northridge

Nursing Home Report Card and Performance Gap

Ae-Sook Kim, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Faith, Poverty, and Place: Congregations and the Shifting Geography of Poverty in the US

Jessica Gillooly, University of Michigan and Scott Allard, University of Washington

Leaving the Nest: Departure from the Parental Home in the Transition to Adulthood

Youngmin Yi, Cornell University

Impact of Economic Opportunities on Teen Birth Rates and Crime

Pallavi Vyas, University of Chicago

Are Banks Responsive to Indirect Subsidies for Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries? Evidence from Mexico's Credit Guarantee Programs

Agustin Palao Mendizabal, University of Texas, Dallas and Carlos Ernesto Rodriguez Gomez, Fideicomisos Institutidos en Relacion con la Agricultura

Is over-Indebtedness a Predictor of Disability Pension? Evidence from a 15-Year Follow-up of Finnish Men and Women

Heikki Hiilamo, University of Helsinki

Values, Emotions, and Benefit-Risk Assessment: Explicating Local Policy Elites' Perceived Utility of the High Voltage Power Line Installations Proposed in the State of Arkansas

Rachael Moyer and Geoboo Song, University of Arkansas

Stakeholder- Versus Evidence-Based Modes of Internet Governance

David Cristian Morar, George Mason University and Roxana Radu, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva

Who Uses E-Participation? a Preliminary Model of E-Participation Adoption By Citizens

Jooho Lee, University of Nebraska

Coordinated Transitions: How Military Service Influences Post-Service Education

Daniel L. Fay¹, Corri B. Zoli² and Rosy V. Maury², (1)The University of Georgia, (2)Syracuse University

The Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Pollution on Children's Human Capital Formation: The Case of Indonesia

Maria Rosales-Rueda, University of California, Irvine and Margaret Triyana, Nanyang Technological University

Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths

Stephen Patrick¹, Carrie Fry¹, Tim Jones² and Melinda Buntin¹, (1)Vanderbilt University, (2)Tennessee Department of Health

Exploring Long-Term Effects of Need-Based Grant on Disadvantaged Students

Daewoo Lee, Indiana University

Understanding the Impact of Positive Psychology on Shelter Use: A Study of Homeless Families in New York City

Dan Treglia, University of Pennsylvania; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Community Resilience and Public Health Emergency Preparedness Grants: Exploratory Analysis of New York State

Lucila M Zamboni, University at Albany - SUNY; blank and Erika G. Martin, University at Albany

Networks during Immigrant Settlement and Intergenerational Mobility

Besufekad Alemu, University of Minnesota

Accountability, Schools and Student Discipline: Accountability and Its Influence on High-School Suspension Rates

E. Christine Baker-Smith, New York University

Estimating the Effects of Maternal Education on Summer Learning: How Method Matters

A.J. Koury, University of Pittsburgh

Evolution of the K-12 Education Landscape

Robert Santillano, Mathematica Policy Research and Jon M. Valant, Tulane University

Impact of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on Infant and Maternal Mortality

Megan D. Thomas, University of Texas, Austin

Seasonal Comparisons of School Year and Summer Test Score Gap Trends: New Evidence from Nationally Representative Data

David M. Quinn¹, North Cooc² and Joseph McIntyre¹, (1)Harvard University, (2)University of Texas, Austin

Moonlighting to Make Ends Meet: The Impact of Multiple Job Holding on Family Economic Wellbeing

Jennifer L. Scott, University of Texas, Austin, Alexandra B. Stanczyk, University of Chicago and Kathryn Anne Edwards, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Do Offenders Beliefs about Risk and Procedural Justice Reflect Policing Policy Changes? Evidence from Panel Data

Megan Eileen Collins and Tom Loughran, University of Maryland

What Is Evidence-Based Research?

Susan A Edelman, Test

Is It True That behind Every Great Man There Is a Great Woman?

Adan Silverio Murillo, University of Minnesota

Modeling the Impact of Enrollment Patterns on Degree Completion for Community College Students

Charles Madsen, Drew Allen, Althea Webber and Janelle Clay, City University of New York

Are Teachers' Commitment to Quality Instruction Affected By Time Spent with Principals in Teacher Development

Roderick C. Willis II, Fort Worth Independent School District

Teachers like Us: The Effect of Student-Teacher Demographic Mismatch on Student Attendance

Stephen Holt and Seth Gershenson, American University

Evaluating the Impact of Statewide Supports for Focus Schools: A Mixed Methods Study

Monica P. Bhatt, University of Michigan

Governor Artamonov's Miracle: Special Economic Zone in Kaluga, Russia

Keunwon Song, George Mason University

Does Debt Make a Difference: A Study of the Effect of School District Indebtedness on School Bond Election Outcomes

Laura Jackson, University of Texas at Dallas

Expected Impact of Health Care Reform on the Organization and Service Delivery of Publicly Funded Addiction Health Services

Erick Guerrero, University of Southern California, Lesley Harris, University of Louisville and Howard Padwa, University of California, Los Angeles

The Diagnostic Accuracy of Performance-Based Teacher Retention Policy

J. Edward Guthrie and Gary Henry, Vanderbilt University

Paving the Way for a More Prosperous Future for Young Adults: Preliminary Results of an Outcomes Study of the Chelsea Foyer at the Christopher

Jessica A Raithel¹, Miranda Yates², Amy Dworsky³, Maryanne Schretzman¹, Whitney Welshimer², Eileen Johns¹ and Nebahat Noyan¹, (1)NYC Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health & Human Services, (2)Good Shepherd Services, (3)Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

Hardships Associated with Student Debt in Low- and Middle-Income Households

Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Dana C. Perantie, Samuel H. Taylor, Shenyang Guo and Blair D. Russell, Washington University in St. Louis

Municipal Autonomy and Student Performance: A Comparative Analysis Using PISA Results

Santiago Tellez, The University of Texas at Austin and Francisca Bogolasky, University of Texas, Austin

Ending Family Homelessness with Rapid Re-Housing Assistance

Britton A. Gibson, Jamie Taylor and Caitlin Frumerie, The Cloudburst Group

Effects of Full- and Half-Day Schedules of an Urban, Prekindergarten Program

Brandt A. Richardson¹, Nicole E. Smerillo¹, Judy Temple² and Arthur J. Reynolds³, (1)University of Minnesota, (2)University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs, (3)Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota

The Politics of HIV Treatment Versus Behavioral Prevention Policy

Ashley Fox, University at Albany - SUNY

The Effect of Subway Access on School Choice

Luis Andres Herskovic and Sebastian Gallegos, University of Chicago

The Impact of Adjunct Instructors on College Student Academic and Labor Market Outcome

Xiaotao Ran, Community College Research Center and Di Xu, Columbia University

The Earlier and the More, the Better: Effects of Prenatal Care on Maternal Health and Health Behavior

Ji Yan, Appalachian State University

The Fiscal Implications of Municipal Annexation: The Effects of Local Government Fiscal Structure

Evgenia Gorina, University of Texas at Dallas and Jing Wang, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Analyzing the Impact of Diabetes Self Mangagement Education (DSME) on Diabetes Management from a Policy Perspective

Michael Hatch, American University

Conducting a Culturally-Sensitive Rigorous Evaluation of a Culturally-Responsive Intervention: Preliminary Findings, Lessons Learned, and Challenges from an RCT of a TPP/STI Program in Hawai'I

Yasuyo Abe, Linda Toms Barker, Vincent Chan and Jasmine Eucogco, IMPAQ International

Predicting health care costs and use in the United States under single-payer alternatives: preliminary results

Jodi Liu¹, Jeffrey Wasserman¹ and Robert Brook², (1)Pardee RAND Graduate School, (2)RAND

Are Older Adults Who Receive SNAP Benefits Healthier Than Non-Recipients? Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Jin H Kim, Northeastern Illinois University

The Effect of Medicaid on Non-Elderly Adult Hospitalizations: Evidence from Tennessee’s Medicaid Contraction

Ausmita Ghosh, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis and Kosali Simon, Indiana University

Private Equity Investment in India: Efficiency Vs. Expansion

Troy D. Smith, RAND

Examining the Effectiveness of School Suicide Prevention/Awareness Programs at the State Level

Meghan Doughty, American University

AP Is in: The Impact of Standardizing Postsecondary Acceptance of Advanced Placement Credit in Indiana

Katharine Meyer, University of Virginia

Fourteen Years after No Child Left behind, a Look at Achievement Gap Data in All 50 States

Isla-Anne Schuchs Carr, Mississippi State University

Retrospective Voting Behavior in Local California School Board Elections

Richard S. L. Blissett and Ngaire Honey, Vanderbilt University

More Parks Better Health: An Assessment of Park Quality on Health

Christopher K Wyczalkowski, Georgia State University

Maternal Employment and Food Purchased for at-Home Consumption

Christine Nicole Coyer, Cornell University

The Economic Impact of Immigrants on American Universities

Robert W. Jackman and Anthony W. Orlando, University of Southern California

Accessing Medicaid Long Term Care Programs in Georgia

Samara Scheckler, University of Georgia

Nonprofit Sector Engagement and Economic Mobility: Trends By Socioeconomic Status

Jodi Benenson, University of Nebraska, Omaha

Dynamics in Safety Net Use for Middle Class Households in the Great Recession

Hilary C Wething, University of Washington

Early Outcomes Assessment and Development of Model for Continuing Evaluation of the Promise Zones

Ljubinka Andonoska, University of Texas, El Paso

Through the Grapevine: Source Dependence and Teachers' Decisions

Jason Burns, Michigan State University

Political Efficacy of Teachers: A Look at How Teachers Position Themselves within the Policy Process

Lauren P. Bailes, The Ohio State University

Does the Environment Affect the Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Christina Y Huang, Pardee RAND Graduate School; RAND Corporation

The Impact of Physical Activity on Health Expenditure Among the Elderly

Emma Aguila, M. F. Irinco, A. E. Koshak, K. Sharifpour and A. Wang, University of Southern California

The Spatial Dimensions of Inequality and Wealth: An Analysis of U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Straso Jovanovski, Rutgers University

Top-Down Vs. Bottom-up Diffusion: The Case of State-Level Abortion Policies

Danielle Atkins, University of Tennessee, Daniel L. Fay, The University of Georgia and Vicky Wilkins, American University

A Successful School Turnaround: Policy Implications and Lessons Learned from a Mixed Method Evaluation

Daniel Princiotta,

Recall Accuracy in Agricultural Data: Evidence from the LSMS

Joshua D Merfeld, University of Washington and C. Leigh Anderson, University of Washington, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

Where the Jobs Are: Evaluating the Impact of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) on Local Employment and Private Investment in Baltimore City

Nichole Stewart, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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