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

Saturday, November 14, 2015

7:15 AM-8:15 AM

ID#6397

Caucus: Building the Evidence Base through Pay for Success and Social Impact Bonds: Progress, Themes, and Challenges

ID#6405

Caucus: Can States and Districts Lead on Educational Equity? Diagnosing and Solving the Problem of Unequal Access to Effective Teachers and Schools

ID#6407

Caucus: Developing a Veterans Policy Research Program within the Department of Veterans Affairs

ID#6408

Caucus: Family Stability: What is it and Should It be a Goal of Social Policy?

ID#6409

Caucus: HUD Research Roadmap Continued: Future Research for Evidence-Based Housing and Community Development Policy

ID#6410

Caucus: Implications of Evidence-Based Policies within an Era of Changing Population Demographics

ID#6411

Caucus: Inside a State Legislature: When and Why We Use (and Don't Use) Evidence

ID#6412

Caucus: Presenting Research to the Public Using Social Media

ID#6413

Caucus: Rapid Re-Housing After Family Options: Stabilizing Any Shelter Clients?

ID#6414

Caucus: Real, Not Rhetorical: Sustaining Research Partnerships

ID#6415

Caucus: Reforming the Federal Disability Benefit Application Process

ID#6416

Caucus: Reporting Quasi-Experimental Results: Helping Policy Makers Understand the Evidence on Medicare and Medicaid Innovations

ID#6417

Caucus: Rossi Awardees Discuss: What’s next for the Field of Evaluation?

ID#6418

Caucus: The Push for Rapid-Cycle Evaluation: Translating Keen Enthusiasm into Effective Practice

ID#6419

Caucus: What Methods for Wicked Policy Problems?

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

ID#6044

Panel: Addressing Barriers to Care: New Avenues for Evidence-Based Health Policy

ID#6344

Panel: Changing Technology and Management

ID#6316

Panel: College Financing and Completion

ID#6276

Panel: Consequences of Policy Decisions on Crime

ID#6298

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

ID#6068

Panel: Family and Community Contexts Shaping Children of Immigrants’ Development

ID#5952

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

ID#6117

Panel: Father Involvement: Trends, Implications, and Opportunities

ID#6305

Panel: Getting Research Used in Government

ID#6235

Panel: Health & Education Intersections: Health Barriers to Academic Achievement and Potential Policy Solutions

ID#6297

Panel: Insurance Expansion Effects on Specialty Care and Drug Use

ID#6290

Panel: Labor and Use of Health Care: Effects of Federal Mental Health Parity

ID#6265

Panel: Land and Species Conservation

ID#6040

Panel: Medicare's Future: Challenges and Opportunities

ID#5729

Panel: Methods for Understanding Impact Variation

ID#6310

Panel: New Makers, New Markets

ID#6218

Panel: New Research on the Effects of EITC and SNAP

ID#6214

Roundtable: Pay for Success

ID#6274

Panel: Policies Affecting Home Ownership

ID#6106

Panel: Poverty and Poor Food Environments

ID#5852

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

ID#6002

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

ID#6335

Panel: Social Equity and Public Administration

ID#5441

Panel: Tax Refunds and Household Debt

ID#6154

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

ID#6203

Panel: The Transfer Function of Community Colleges

ID#6263

Panel: The Use of Evidence in Policy Analysis

ID#5531

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

ID#5777

Panel: Using Technology to Improve Educational Outcomes

ID#6093

Panel: Using and Improving Modeling Efforts to Inform Energy and Climate Policy

9:30 AM-11:00 AM

ID#6396

Special Events: Ask the Experts Saturday - Student Resource

10:15 AM-11:45 AM

ID#6264

Panel: Addressing Selection Bias in Observational Analysis of Intervention Impacts

ID#6133

Panel: Assets and Debt in American Lives: Findings from 50 Years of the National Longitudinal Surveys

ID#5881

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

ID#6278

Panel: Building Skills in At-Risk Populations

ID#5930

Panel: College Access and Matriculation

ID#6318

Panel: Enhancing Teacher Performance

ID#6271

Panel: Evidence on the Effects of Affordable Housing

ID#6152

Panel: Evidence-Based Sustainability Planning in Cities: Evaluating City Climate Action Plans and Media Reports in US, India & China

ID#6188

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

ID#6302

Panel: Explosive Issues: Waivers, Welfare, and Immigration

ID#5775

Panel: Fathers and Child Support: What's Associated with Payments and What Are Their Effects?

ID#5873

Panel: Fiscal Consequences of Local Government Policies

ID#6240

Roundtable: Forecasting the Effects of Public Policies on Budgets and People

ID#6231

Panel: Gender in the Workplace

ID#5525

Panel: Governmental Performance and Stakeholder Perceptions: Evidence from Experimental Interventions

ID#6288

Panel: Health Insurance Coverage and Effects in Special Populations

ID#6320

Panel: Inequality of Educational Opportunity and Outcomes

ID#6268

Panel: Information Provision to Improve Energy and Environmental Outcomes

ID#6285

Panel: Intended and Unintended Consequences of Health Care Mechanisms

ID#6222

Panel: Latino Immigration: Policy and Outcomes

ID#6323

Panel: Measuring Teacher Performance

ID#6311

Panel: Motivations and Networks in Research Collaborations

ID#6333

Panel: New Evidence on Poverty Measurement, The Safety Net, and the Great Recession

ID#6354

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

ID#6295

Panel: Take Up and Effects of Private Insurance Coverage after the ACA

ID#6177

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

ID#5924

Panel: Understanding the Effects of Food Assistance Programs and the Food Environment on Food Spending, Food Security, and Diet Using the National Household Food Assistance Acquisition and Purchase Survey

ID#6277

Panel: Unemployment Insurance Issues

ID#6353

Panel: What Drives Public Servants?

ID#6280

Panel: Work and Family Policies: How Can Policy Reduce the Tensions Between Work & Family?

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

ID#6358

Poster: Saturday Poster Session & Luncheon

1:45 PM-3:15 PM

ID#6168

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

ID#6127

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

ID#6304

Panel: Bureaucratic Politics and Policymaking

ID#5818

Roundtable: Cities Fighting Inequality

ID#6315

Panel: College Access and Choice

ID#5677

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

ID#6220

Panel: Exploring the Impact of Mobility and Assignment Strategies on Student Educational Experiences and Outcomes

ID#6055

Panel: Family Stability and Parenting in the Great Recession

ID#6351

Panel: Fiscal Institutions and Their Effect on Governance

ID#6339

Panel: Framing Performance Assessments

ID#5676

Panel: Innovations in Evaluation for Improved Internal and External Validity

ID#6330

Panel: Innovative Uses of Data to Answer Policy Questions

ID#6355

Panel: Inter-Generational Effects of Gender, Marriage, and Income

ID#6132

Panel: Interactions Between Healthcare and Social Insurance Programs

ID#6006

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

ID#6314

Panel: Migration and Health

ID#5920

Panel: Older Workers' Self-Employment Trends and Prospects

ID#6324

Panel: Performance Pays in Teaching

ID#6179

Panel: Physician Incentives and Responses to Health Policies

ID#6334

Panel: Poverty, Programs, and Other Outcomes

ID#5989

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

ID#6282

Panel: Programs and Policies to Help Vulnerable Children and Youth

ID#5949

Panel: Publicly Funded Preschool: Impacts Across Early- and Middle-Childhood

ID#6329

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

ID#6272

Panel: The Implementation and Evaluation of Programs for Recipients of Housing Assistance

ID#6165

Panel: The Latest Evidence on Charter Schools: Selection, Effectiveness, Best Practices and Systemic Effects

ID#6182

Panel: Understanding Personnel Decisions in Public Schools