2015 Fall Conference: The Golden Age of Evidence-Based Policy: Affiliation Index A

Aarhus University

AARP

Student Session: Career Paths Outside Academia for Policy Graduates

Impact of Finances 50+ Training Classes on Individuals' Financial Behaviors

AARP Foundation

Impact of Finances 50+ Training Classes on Individuals' Financial Behaviors

Abt Associates

Tax Refunds and Household Debt

Sample Size Requirements for RCTs with Varying Impacts

Methods for Understanding Impact Variation

The Impact of Worker Protection Efforts

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

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

Studies in Unemployment Insurance Policy

Big Data – Huge Promises, Small Insights?

Demand Driven Training Programs for Low Wage Workers

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

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

The Implementation and Evaluation of Programs for Recipients of Housing Assistance

Policy Responses to the Prescription Opioid Epidemic

Inequality of Educational Opportunity and Outcomes

Student Session: The Policy Job Market – What Recent Graduates and Employers Have to Say

Sample Size Requirements for Education Multi-Site RCTs That Select Sites Randomly

Propensity Scores and Causal Inference Using Machine Learning Methods

New Analytic Opportunities to Learn about Program Variants from Multi-Site Experimental Evaluations

The Impact of Marketing OSHA's On-site Consultation Program

Effectiveness of the Offset for Beneficiaries Most Motivated to Work: Short-Run Results from Bond's Stage 2 Experiment

Estimating Causal Effects of Education Interventions Using a Two-Rating RDD: Lessons from Simulations

Comparing the Impact of Attending a School-Based Preschool on Young Children's Pre-Academic Skills, Social Behavior, and Approaches to Learning

Differential Third Grade Outcomes Associated with Attending Publicly Funded Preschool Programs for Low-Income, Latino Children

Understanding Non-Compliance: REA Case Study

Facilitating the Transition to Postsecondary Education: The Impact of Early Colleges

Impact Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial Study of Four Health Care and Green Jobs Training Programs

Reconsidering Food Deserts: Supermarket Shopping and the Food Retail Environment

Understanding Computation of TOT Estimator Standard Errors in Program Evaluation

Family Options Study: 20-Month Impacts on Families' Self-Sufficiency and Adult Well-Being

Family Options Study: 20-Month Impacts on Housing Stability

Implementation Lessons from the Family Options Study

“This Is Really Stressful for Me”: Using Case Studies and Storytelling for Consumer Finance Policy Innovation

A Comparative Assessment of the Bias and Precision of Difference-in-Differences and Ancova Estimators

Abt Associates, Inc.

Findings and Implications from the HHS Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program

Studies in Unemployment Insurance Policy

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

Bridging the Gap Between Research, Policy, and Practice: The Implementation and Study of Massachusetts’ Educator Evaluation Framework

Have Distressed Neighborhoods Recovered? Evidence from the Neighborhood Stabilization Program

New Analytic Opportunities to Learn about Program Variants from Multi-Site Experimental Evaluations

An Economic Evaluation of State Laws Regulating Prescription Drugs

Expanding Participation in Technical Fields: An Evaluation of the Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) Program

Gender Differences in Educational and Occupational Mobility Across Three Generations in Sweden

Shaping the Evidence Base of Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs: Updated Evidence on the Effectiveness of a Widely Used Youth Development Program

Facilitating the Transition to Postsecondary Education: The Impact of Early Colleges

Impact Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial Study of Four Health Care and Green Jobs Training Programs

Replicating Evidence-Based Programs: Early Findings from the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Replication Study

Reconsidering Food Deserts: Supermarket Shopping and the Food Retail Environment

Capturing Financial Realities in Real Time: Using in-Depth Interviews during the Foreclosure Crisis in Boston

AcademyHealth

Confronting Costs: Medicare Payment Innovation - Opportunities to Build and Spread

Administration for Children and Families

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

Methods for Understanding Impact Variation

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

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

The Use of State-Based Needs Assessments in Driving Evidence-Based Policy: Results for the Federal Home Visiting Program Evaluation

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Do Public Health Insurance Expansions Have Teeth? Evidence from Medicaid Adult Dental Benefits

The Effect of Health Insurance Coverage on Medical Care Utilization and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Medicaid Adult Vision Benefits

Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University

The Spillover Effects of Public Works on Migration, Labor Allocation and Wages: Evidence from National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, India

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

How Foundations Can Support Evidence-Based Policy

America Works

An Evaluation of America Work's (NYC's Employment Service Provider) Contextualized Literacy Program

American Enterprise Institute

Inequality Solutions: A Roundtable Discussion of Sir Tony Atkinson's 2015 Book,

Getting Research Used in Government

Inter-Generational Effects of Gender, Marriage, and Income

The EITC Marriage Penalty: Will an Expansion to the Childless Worker EITC Makes Things Worse?

American Institutes for Research

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

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

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

Preventing High School Dropout: Findings in Four Experimental Studies

College Financing and Completion

Improving Educational Outcomes of Early Care and Education

Evaluating Effects of Assessment Programs on Student Achievement:

Is the System Solid? Assessing the Validity, Reliability, and Bias of Teacher Evaluation Measures

Consumption Smoothing and Productive Investments in Rural Zambia

Examining Spillover Effects from Teach for America Corps Members in Miami-Dade County Public Schools

A Random Assignment Experiment to Examine the Impact of Performance Pay on Teacher Retention in High-Poverty Schools

The Common Core Conundrum: To What Extent Should We Worry That Test and Curriculum Changes Will Affect Test-Based Measures of Teacher Performance?

Experiments in Schools: Methodological Considerations for Conducting Random Assignment in Educational Settings

Assessing the Validity of Comparative Interrupted Time Series Designs and Practice: Lessons from Two within Study Comparisons

Statistical Power for Short, Comparative Interrupted Time Series Designs with Aggregated Data

Does Performance Pay Make Teachers Stay? an Evaluation of Newark Public School's Teacher Contract

Classroom Context and Measured Teacher Performance: What Do Teacher Observation Scores Really Measure?

Local Validation of Early Warning Indicators: Does Size, Demographic Composition, and Locale Matter?

The Relationship Between QRIS Ratings and Observed Program Quality in California

The Struggle to Pass Algebra in Urban High Schools: Does Early Credit Recovery Help Students Get Back on Track?

Check & Connect: Impacts of a High School Dropout Prevention Program on at-Risk Youth

Dropout Prevention: Documenting the Impact of the Early Warning Intervention Monitoring System on Schools and Students

Impact of the Zambian Child Grant Program on Women's Decision-Making and Empowerment

Back to School: Increases in Maternal Education and Infant Health

Pension Structure and Employee Turnover: Evidence from a Large Public Pension System

American Political Science Association

Challenges to Improving Managerial Performance in an Evidence-Based World

Nonprofit Governance and Partnerships

Performance Management in a Co-Production Context: Negotiating Improved Outcomes

American Sociological Association

Discovering How to Get Research Used in the Policy Process: The Role of Networks

American University

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

Food Insecurity through Four Lenses

Educational Innovations in and Outside the Home

New Research on the Effects of EITC and SNAP

Gentrification and Its Effects

Long Term Health and Economic Effects of Medicaid

Local Government Management

International Papers on Improving Health and Well-Being

Who Gets Bribed? Social Capital and Street-Level Corruption in Latin America

The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks

Why Share Power? Exploring the Motives for Creating Opportunities for Citizen Participation in Local Health and Human Service Contracts

Gentrification and Political Representation: A Comparative Analysis

From Whence It Came: An Empirical Study of the Influence of Education on Developing Public Service Ethos

Exploring the Unintended Consequences of Accountability on Teacher Diversity

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Foster Parent Recruitment and Training

Representative Bureaucracy and Parental Involvement in Schools

Understanding How Households Combine SNAP and Pantry Assistance

Teacher-Student Match and Student Disciplinary Outcomes in North Carolina

The Role of National Income, Household Income, and Transfers in Inequality

Examining the Intersections of Economic Instability, Child Care, and Parenting during and after the Great Recession

Fact & Fiction: Attitudinal and Behavior Differences on Federal Spending for Science Research and Space Exploration

Who Believes in Me? the Effect of Student-Teacher Demographic Match on Teachers' Beliefs

Assessing State Food Safety Performance Under FDA Contracts: The Public Health Implications of State Variations in a New Regulatory Regime

Commuting Sustainably: Do Smart Growth Policies Affect Transportation?

Building Adaptive Capacity for Resilience in U.S. Coastal Communities

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

The Effect of Financial Incentives Under TANF and EITC on Economic Outcomes for Low Income Families

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

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

Can Diversity Management Improve Job Satisfaction for Military Veterans in the Federal Government?

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

Anne Arundel Community College

Accelerating Connections to Employment: Improving the Effectiveness of Career Pathway Programs through Evidence-Based Policymaking

Annie E. Casey Foundation

The Promise of Two-Generation Strategies: Lessons from the Field

Appalachian State University

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

Networking for Conservation: Understanding the Contributions of Social Capital and Organizational Networks to Private Land Protection

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

Apprenticeship Carolina

Will U.S. Companies Train? Lessons from South Carolina's Apprenticeship Carolina Program

APPRISE Incorporated

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

Argonne National Laboratory

Technical and Economic Impacts of Compliance Strategies for the EPA Clean Power Plan

Arizona State University

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

Transforming Research and Analysis to Action: Engagement Across the Academic and Policy Divide

Voluntary Environmental Programs As Environmental Governance Tools

Infrastructure Finance and Investment

Affective Commitment and Income Satisfaction in Public and Nonprofit Organizations: Does Management Matter?

Rule- Versus Principle-Based Environmental Reporting Guidelines

The Effects of Race and Gender Repertoires on Citizens' Evaluations of Bureaucratic Decision Outcomes

Use of Social Media Technologies for Intra-Agency Collaboration: Evidence from US Local Governments

An Evaluation of Demographic Matching of Criminal History Records in New York State

Participatory Modeling of the Phoenix Heat Relief Network Cooling Centers

Comparative Analysis of Open Data Portals in 100 Largest Cities of the U.S

Institutional Determinants of the Usage of Scientific and Technical Information in Policymaking: A Case Analysis of the National Academies Reports

Ascend at the Aspen Institute

The Promise of Two-Generation Strategies: Lessons from the Field

Building Human Capital Two Generations at a Time: The Intersection of Human Services and Postsecondary Opportunities for Families

Asia-Europe Perspective Association

The Determinants of U.S. Hybrid-Electric Vehicle Saturation Level and the Implications---Insight from the County-Level Registration Data

Association for Education Finance & Policy

Student Session: Career Paths Outside Academia for Policy Graduates

Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management

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