Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management

• How Foundations Can Support Evidence-Based Policy
  

• The Cost Effectiveness of Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Retirement Plans

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

• Flexible Structure Meets Regulatory Oversight: A Nonprofit Board Governance Challenge

• Shock, but No Shift: Hospitals' Responses to Changes in Patient Insurance Mix

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

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

• Practical Tips and Advice for Launching an RCT
  

• Second Trimester Sunlight and Asthma: Evidence from Two Independent Studies

• Factors in STEM Workforce Occupational Choices

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

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

• Foster Care Placement and Foster Care Adoption in the United States
  

• Trends in Disability Program Participation
  

• Recent Advances in Visual Presentation of Big Data to Guide Policy
  

• Sample Size Requirements for RCTs with Varying Impacts
  

• Findings and Implications from the HHS Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program
  

• Using Evidence Reviews to Inform Policy: Promise and Cautions
  

• The Impact of Worker Protection Efforts
  

• Lessons Learned from the First Four i3 Scale-up Evaluations
  

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

• Occupational Demands Among Older Workers and Individuals with Disability
  

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

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

• Evaluations of Federal STEM Workforce Training Programs
  

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

• Economic and Social Consequences of Undocumented Immigration
  

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

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

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

• Teacher Evaluation Measures – What Are They Good For?
  

• Interactions Between Healthcare and Social Insurance Programs
  

• Disability Benefit Reform: Building an Evidence-Base
  

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

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

• Unemployment Insurance Issues
  

• Building Skills in At-Risk Populations
  

• Planned Parenthood and the Well-Being of Children and Families
  

• Issues in STEM Higher Education
  

• Enhancing Teacher Performance
  

• Keeping Students on Track
  

• Performance Pays in Teaching
  

• Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance after Two Years
  

• The Employment, Earnings, and Benefit Receipt Outcomes of Youth Vocational Rehabilitation Applicants By Service Receipt Status
  

• Are Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) Beneficiaries Entering the Rolls Sooner and Staying Longer? Evidence from Birth Cohorts 1956–1997
  

• Are Disability Applicants Unhealthier Than Ever?
  

• Did the 2010 VA PTSD Rule Change Affect Disability Compensation Receipt?
  

• Getting from Data Visualization Theory to Practice
  

• The Effect of Early Work Experience on Subsequent Labor Market Success for Youth with Disabilities
  

• Internal and External Validity of Using Regression Discontinuity Designs to Estimate Causal Effects Away from the Cutoff
  

• Ratio-of-Mediator-Probability Weighting for Causal Mediation Analysis in the Presence of Treatment-By-Mediator Interaction
  

• How on-the-Ground Realities Shape the Design, Implementation, and Results of Demonstration Studies
  

• The Effects of Expanding Public Insurance on Utilization: Early Results from Wisconsin
  

• Understanding the Effects of Kipp As It Scales
  

• Assessing the Effectiveness of Teach for America's Investing in Innovation Scale-up
  

• How Has the Changing Nature of Work Contributed to SSDI Growth?
  

• Early Findings from Stage 1 of the Benefit Offset National Demonstration
  

• Comparing Two Bootstrapping Methods for Calculating Standard Errors in Regression Discontinuity Designs
  

• Reducing Bias and Increasing Precision in Rdds By Adding a Pretest or Nonequivalent Comparison Group
  

• Validating Value-Added Measures of Teacher Performance
  

• Market Signals: Using the DC School Choice Lottery to Model Consumer Demand and Response to Policy Changes
  

• Effects of Eliminating the SNAP Interview on Client and Worker Outcomes
  

• Impact Findings from the Evaluation of the National Science Foundation Lsamp Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship
  

• Estimating and Reporting Impacts Using the RCT-YES Software
  

• Why Use Design-Based Methods for RCTs?
  

• Using Research Evidence to Transform Technical Assistance in Employment Services
  

• Information Shocks about Ability and the Decision to Enroll in Advanced Placement: Evidence from the PSAT
  

• The Los Angeles Early Educators Advance Evaluation: A Study of Professional Development Programs in Los Angeles County
  

• Measuring Teachers' Effectiveness: A Report from Phase 3 of Pennsylvania's Pilot of the Framework for Teaching
  

• The WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs: 15-Month Impacts from a Nationally Representative Randomized Control Trial
  

• Implementation of the EUC08 Reemployment Services and Reemployment Eligibility Assessments Program: Findings from Nine States
  

• Extended Unemployment Compensation and Economic Well-Being: Findings from the Great Recession
  

• Re-Imagining Accountability in K-12 Education: A Behavioral Science Perspective
  

• Do You See What I See? the Impact of School Accountability on Parent, Teacher, and Student Perceptions of the School Environment
  

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

• Evolution of the K-12 Education Landscape
  

• Rolling Back “Zero Tolerance”: Patterns of School Suspension in the Wake of District-Level Policy Reforms in New York City and Philadelphia
  

• The Impact of Living in a High Crime Neighborhood
  

• Economic Conditions and SSI Applications
  

• The Right Supports at the Right Time: How Money Follows the Person Programs Are Supporting Diverse Populations
  

• Meeting Veterans' Employment Needs: Services Available through the Public Workforce System
  

• Unmarried Fathers' Involvement and Children's Behavioral Outcomes
  

• Impact of the ARRA Cobra Subsidy
  

• The Impact of Replacing Principals on Student Achievement in DC Schools

• Estimating and Reporting Impacts Using the RCT-YES Software

• Child Saving Accounts: A Cross-National Comparison of Polices in Canada and the United States

• Effects of a Global Payment and Accountable Care Model on Substance Use Disorder Service Use and Spending

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

• Methods for Understanding Impact Variation
  

• The Politics of Evidence-Based Policymaking: Stories from North Carolina and Beyond
  

• Engaging Low-Income Parents in Early Childhood Programs
  

• Measurement, Markets, and Social Policy
  

• Interventions for Struggling Readers: When Evidence Meets the Real World
  

• Father Involvement: Trends, Implications, and Opportunities
  

• Housing As a Platform for Economic Mobility
  

• Demand Driven Training Programs for Low Wage Workers
  

• Pay for Success
  

• Building Skills in At-Risk Populations
  

• Explosive Issues: Waivers, Welfare, and Immigration
  

• College Access and Choice
  

• Promoting Evidence-Based Policies and Programs: Federal, State, and Foundation Perspectives
  

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

• Diversity Initiatives in Public Policy
  

• The Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE): Results from the 2015 Report to Congress
  

• Analysis of Statistical Precision for Multi-Site Randomized Trials
  

• Making Change via Whole School Reform: Findings from the National Diplomas Now Experiment
  

• MDRC Performance-Based Scholarship Demonstration
  

• Capitalizing on Volunteer Tutors: An Experimental Evaluation of a Tutoring Program for Struggling Readers
  

• Becoming Adults: One-Year Impact Findings from the Youth Villages Transitional Living Evaluation
  

• Increasing “Emergency” Savings at Tax Time: Final Impact Findings from the Saveusa Randomized Control Trial
  

• The Challenge of Sustaining Impacts in the i3 Scale-up Demonstration: The Experience of Success for All
  

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

• The Next Generation of Public Housing Employment Initiatives: Jobs-Plus Expands
  

• Understanding Contrasts and Contexts
  

• Parent Participation in an Early Childhood Program and Effects on Children: Evidence from a Low-Income Urban Sample
  

• Latest Evidence on the Sectoral Strategy: Economic Impact, Implementation, and Cost Results from the Workadvance Demonstration
  

• A "New Nonprime?": Why so Many High Income People Get Payday Loans
  

• Brain Science, Mentoring, and Incentives: A New Approach to Promoting Economic Mobility Among Recipients of Housing Subsidies

• Pent-up Health Care Demand after the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

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

• Understanding the Rates, Causes, and Costs of Churning in SNAP

• Evaluation of a Residential Mobility Experiment: Chicago Regional Housing Choice Initiative

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

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

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

• Foster Care Placement and Foster Care Adoption in the United States
  

• Fiscal Consequences of Local Government Policies
  

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

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

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

• Does Class Size Reduction Close the Achievement Gap? Evidence from TIMSS 2011
  

• Evaluating Effects of Assessment Programs on Student Achievement:
  

• What Is a “Good” Social Network for a System?: Knowledge Flow and Organizational Change
  

• Federal Matching Grants for State Adoption-Related Expenditures and Adoption from Foster Care
  

• An Evaluation of the Use of Special Service Area: A Mixed-Method Study on Chicago Metropolitan Area
  

• Effects the Unemployment Insurance Work Test on Match Quality and Other Long-Term Employment Outcomes
  

• The Effects of Targeted Recruitment and Comprehensive Supports for Low-Income High Achievers at Elite Universities: Evidence from Texas Flagships
  

• Does Title I Funding Help to Equalize School Finance in Low-Income Communities?:Evidence from Michigan School Districts
  

• Dual Language Education and Student Achievement
  

• Lotteried Down: The Consequences of Losing in Rankings-Based School Assignment
  

• Schools By Choice? Parental Preferences in Michigan's Inter-District Open Enrollment Program
  

• Asymmetry in Local Government Responses to Population Growth/Decline
  

• Through the Grapevine: Source Dependence and Teachers' Decisions

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

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