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

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

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

Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday

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#6219

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

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#6377

Special Events: Student Session: Tips for Getting Published

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#5858

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

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

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

ID#6356

Poster: Thursday Poster Session

10:15 AM-11:45 AM

ID#6385

Roundtable: Addressing Disparities in the Provision of Medical Care: A Multisectoral Model for Marrying Medical Education and Household Health in Miami

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#6104

Roundtable: Measurement, Markets, and Social Policy

ID#6042

Panel: Reducing Crime and Violence

ID#6338

Panel: Social Equity in an International Context

ID#6376

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

ID#6105

Panel: The Efficacy of Higher Education Grant Programs

ID#5727

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

ID#5608

Panel: Trends in Disability Program Participation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

ID#6363

Special Events: Lunch Symposium: Using Experiments for Evidence-Based Policy: Lessons from the Private Sector

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#6384

Roundtable: Data for Evidence-Based Policy Making

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#6389

Roundtable: Diversity Initiatives in Public Policy

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#6204

Roundtable: How Foundations Can Support Evidence-Based Policy

ID#6116

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

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#5975

Roundtable: Practical Tips and Advice for Launching an RCT

ID#6151

Panel: Preschool Program Fadeout: Understanding Impact Persistence and Heterogeneity

ID#5842

Panel: Strengthening Transitions from High School to Postsecondary Pursuits

ID#6164

Roundtable: Swift, Certain, Fair: Findings from Hawaii Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE), 24/7, and Beyond

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

ID#5811

Roundtable: Using Evidence Reviews to Inform Policy: Promise and Cautions

1:45 PM-4:45 PM

ID#6394

Special Events: Ask the Experts Thursday - Student Resource

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#5419

Roundtable: Seeking Agreement on Poverty and Inequality

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#6171

Roundtable: Threats to the Financial Security of Retirees

ID#6207

Roundtable: Using Administrative Data to Do Low-Cost RCTs

ID#6348

Panel: Youth and Citizen Involvement in Government and Nonprofit Governance

5:15 PM-6:45 PM

ID#6364

Special Events: Symposium: Adding a Pillar to Evidence-Based Management: Combining Evaluation with Operational Feedback

6:45 PM-8:30 PM

ID#6365

Special Events: Welcome Reception