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

Takasaki City University of Economics

Rule- Versus Principle-Based Environmental Reporting Guidelines

Temple University

Policy Responses to the Prescription Opioid Epidemic

Health Insurance Coverage and Effects in Special Populations

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

Health Insurance Expansions and Safety Net Provider Behavior: Evidence from Substance Use Disorder Providers

An Economic Evaluation of State Laws Regulating Prescription Drugs

Supply of Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Native Entrepreneurship

Lives in Limbo: Legal Status and Cumulative Disadvantages over the Life-Course Among Mexican Immigrant Childhood Arrivals

Impact of State Domestic Violence Arrest Laws on Children's Outcomes

Tennessee Consortium on Research, Evaluation, and Development

What Elements of Teacher Practice Are Associated with Pre-K Effect Persistence: Evidence from the Tennessee-Voluntary Pre-K Experiment

Tennessee Department of Education

Dual-Credit Courses and the Road to College: Experimental Evidence from Tennessee

Tennessee Department of Health

Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths

Tennessee Higher Education Commission

Examining the Effects of Early Intervention in Developmental Education: Evidence from Tennessee's Sails Program

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What Is Evidence-Based Research?

Texas A&M University

Current Issues in Medicaid Policy

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

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

Evaluations of Higher Education Policies

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

Physician and Hospital Responses to the Changing Health Care Marketplace

Does Incentive Pay Impact Teacher Turnover? Evidence from Tennessee

Exit and Re-Entry Under Medicaid Premiums: Evidence from Wisconsin

The Effects of Small Business Administration Disaster Loans on Small Business Survival

The Effect of Expanding Medicaid on Supplemental Security Income Program Participation

On the Development of Culturally Competent Education Policies: Understanding Latina/o Student Wellbeing in the U.S. Educational System

Food Pairings, Plate Waste, and Wasted Dollars: The Case of Elementary School Lunches

Fighting for Education: Veterans and Financial Aid

The Effect of Top Management Team Heterogeneity on Performance in Institutions of Higher Education

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

Match or Mismatch? the Role of College Readiness, High School Peers, and Application Uncertainty on College Application Behavior

New Pathways for Policy Implementation Research: Insights from the Delivery of an International Participatory Decentralization Process in Cambodia

Is Representative Bureaucracy an Organizational-Level Phenomenon? Understanding the Link Between the Racial Composition of a Bureaucracy and Client Outcomes

Environmental Implementation, Enforcement, and Justice Under Second-Order Devolution

Texas State University

The Impact of Incentives to Recruit and Retain Teachers in “Hard-to-Staff” Subjects

Texas Tech University

The Future of Water: Trends in Local Water Sustainability Practices

Optimal Dynamic Carbon Taxation over the Business Cycle

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Global

Practical Tips and Advice for Launching an RCT

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

How Foundations Can Support Evidence-Based Policy

The Center on Aging and Work at Boston College

Retirement Patterns in the New Retirement Landscape

The Cloudburst Group

Ending Family Homelessness with Rapid Re-Housing Assistance

The College Board

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

Implications of Financial Aid

Using Technology to Improve Educational Outcomes

College Access and Choice

How College Credit in High School Changes College Students' Course of Study

Every Little Bit Counts: The Impact of High-Speed Internet on the Transition to College

The Impact of Targeted Facebook Advertisements on Student Behavior

The Commonwealth Fund

Intended and Unintended Consequences of Health Care Mechanisms

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

The Graduate Center at the City University of New York

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

The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Which School Characteristics in Kindergarten Mitigate the Influence Poverty Has on First Grade Achievement? a Multilevel Analysis

Peer Counseling, Breastfeeding and Voucher Redemption among WIC Participants: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

The Heldrich Center for Workforce Development

Driving Decision-Making with Longitudinal Data: New Jersey's Workforce Development Dashboard

The National Academies

Immigrant Integration: A National Academies Concensus Study

The New School

Building Evidence to Strengthen the Social Safety Net

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

Threats to the Financial Security of Retirees

Evidence on the Consequences of Foreclosures

Does Gentrification Increase Employment Opportunities in Low-Income Neighborhoods?

Financial Networks in Low-Income Urban Communites

Wealth Distribution in Communities of Color: Evidence from the National Asset Scorecard in Communities of Color (NASCC) Project

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

The New Teacher Project

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

The Ohio State University

Tax Refunds and Household Debt

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

Addressing the Housing Needs of an Aging Population

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

Poverty and Poor Food Environments

Subnational Environmental Policies in China: Mechanisms and Performance

Governing Water: Collaborative Approaches

Intended and Unintended Consequences of Health Care Mechanisms

The Impact of Program Strategy on the Success of Public Sector Minority Business Enterprise Set-Aside Programs: The Case of the State of Ohio

Timing Is Money: Does Lump-Sum Payment of Tax Credits Induce High-Cost Borrowing?

How Employee Empowerment Contributes to Individual and Organizational Performance? an Empirical Assessment of Employee Empowerment in a Law Enforcement Agency

Local Responses to Foreclosure: An Examination of the Effects of Vacancy Ordinances in the Older Suburbs of Cleveland

The Political Frame of Evidence-Based Policy Making

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

The Predictability of Local and State Education Funding: Evidence from Ohio School District Revenue Forecasts

From Fidelity to Fit: Informing Policy and Program Implementation in Complex Systems

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

Poverty and Food Environments: EBT Access at Healthy and Unhealthy Retailers over Space and Time

Analyzing Consumption and Dietary Health in the Context of Food Disadvantaged Communities

Reconsidering the Crowded Nest: Wealth Accumulation of Young Adults before and after Leaving Parental Home

New Linked Data on Research Investments: Scientific Workforce, Productivity, and Public Value

Determinants of Household Wealth at Age 50: Evidence from the NLSY79

Environmental Policy Implementation in China: Drivers of Pollution Fee Collection Across Chinese Provinces

Local Level Collaborations on Environmental Issues in China through the Lens of Institutional Collective Action

Early Warning System Simulations of High School Dropout Propensity

An Experimental Analysis of the Role of Gender in Group Decision Making

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

The Ounce of Prevention Fund

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

Unique Patterns of Process and Structural Quality As Predictors of Head Start Impact Variation

The Partnership for a New American Economy

Why Are Immigrants and the Children of Immigrants More Likely to Obtain a STEM Degree? the Role of English Proficiency

The Pew Charitable Trusts

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

Research Translation and Simplicity in Practice

“Money Is a Burden”: Using Qualitative Research to Inform Policy Surrounding Household Finances

Financial Shocks, Volatility, and Financial Well-Being

The University of Alabama

Power PATH: Integrated Two-Generation Social Emotional Intervention for Head Start Preschoolers and Their Parents

The University of Georgia

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

Changing Technology and Management

The Architecture of Regulatory Policy in the US Municipal Bond Market

The Effect of WIC Receipt on Prenatal Smoking Cessation: Evidence from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System

Coordinated Transitions: How Military Service Influences Post-Service Education

Contractor Performance: Competitive Sourcing Trends in Florida

Is Bigger Better? Examining the Costs and Benefits of Nonprofit Consolidation Using the Combined Federal Campaign

Causal Inference Vs. Prediction: When Selection on the Observables Is Almost Always Violated

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

The University of Texas at Austin

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

The Urban Institute

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

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

Threats to the Financial Security of Retirees

Pay for Success

Latino Immigration: Policy and Outcomes

Forecasting the Effects of Public Policies on Budgets and People

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

Beyond "People Vs Place"

Locally Designed Home Visiting Program Has Sustained Impacts on Child Development & Parenting Quality

Coercive Sexual Environments: Neighborhoods Influences on Sexual Health and Safety

What Explains the Educational Differences in the Propensity to Work Among Older Adults?

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

Systems Change Analysis of the Health Profession Opportunity Grants Initiative

Father Engagement in Home Visiting Programs: Promising Strategies, Benefits, and Challenges

Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market Against People Who Use Wheelchairs: National Study Findings

Raising the Future: Contexts and Parenting Practices in Immigrant Families

Health Care Access and Affordability Among Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Adults: Results from the Health Reform Monitoring Survey

Early Changes in Insurance Coverage and Related Outcomes for Parents and Children Under the Affordable Care Act

Economic Conditions and SSI Applications

How Would Guaranteed Child Care Subsidies Affect Families' Expenses and Government Costs? Results from National and State-Level Analysis

The Volcker Alliance

Challenges to Improving Managerial Performance in an Evidence-Based World

The World Bank, Energy & Extractives Global Practice

Spatial Dynamics in the Global Knowledge Base for Solar PV: Evidence from Patent Analysis

Thrive Water

Demand for Increased Water Reliability Among Urban Households in Jordan

Tilburg University

Financing College Education: 529 Plan Savings Versus Student Debt

Towson University

Estimating the Economic Impacts of State-Level Earned Income Tax Credits

Trachenberg School of Public Policy & Administration, George Washington University

Performance Management

Trinity College

Local Government Officials, Immigration Attitudes, and Anti-Discriminatory Norms

Tsinghua University

Early Bird Catches the Worm? Rewarding Policy Experimentation in China, 1980-2003

Experimentalist Governance for Low-Carbon Development Strategy: Evaluation of a Quasi-Experiment Pilot Scheme in China

Policy Feedback and Public Opinion: Local Acceptance of Nuclear Power in China

Tufts University

Poverty and Poor Food Environments

Interactions Between Healthcare and Social Insurance Programs

The Salient Features of the Local Food Retail Environment for Low-Income Americans in the Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS)

Does Increased Access to Health Insurance Impact Claims for Workers' Compensation? Evidence from Massachusetts Health Care Reform

Reconsidering Food Deserts: Supermarket Shopping and the Food Retail Environment

School and Residential Mobility: Disentangling Pathways of Influence in Adolescence

Tulane University

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

Interventions for High-Achieving Students

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

Revisiting the Hedonic Wage Function for Teachers: Charter Schools and Compensating Wage Differentials

The Impact of City-Wide Open Enrollment on Socioeconomic Segregation in Schools and Access to High-Quality Teachers

The Impact of School Closures and Contract Turnover on Student Achievement: Evidence from New Orleans

Evolution of the K-12 Education Landscape

A Technocratic Solution Meets a Nontechnical Problem: Student Assignment Mechanisms and Parents' Responses

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

The Provision of Public Pre-K in the Absence of Centralized School Management

The Effect of Grade Retention and Social Promotion on Student Outcomes

Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management

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